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The Hungarian Soviet Republic [nb 2], also known as the Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of Hungary [nb 3] was a short-lived communist state [2] that existed from 21 March 1919 to 1 August 1919 (133 days), succeeding the First Hungarian Republic. [3] The Hungarian Soviet Republic was a small communist rump state [4] which, at its time of ...
The First Hungarian Republic was founded from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Mihály Károlyi during the Aster Revolution in 1918, at the end of World War I. In March 1919, the republic was overturned by another revolution, and the Hungarian Soviet Republic was created.
During the period of Soviet occupation of Hungary in World War II (1944–45) under a system known in Hungary as malenki robot (Russian for "little work") it is estimated that up to 600,000 Hungarians (of which up to 200,000 were civilians) were captured by the occupying Soviets and deported to labour camps in the Soviet Union – of those ...
Hungarian Soviet Republic German-Austria Antibolsevista Comité Victory. ABC raid defeated; 2-6 June 1919 Hungarian invasion of Prekmurje Hungarian Soviet Republic: Republic of Prekmurje: Victory. Soviet rule restored in Prekmurje; 24 June 1919 Ludovika Uprising Hungarian Soviet Republic: White Hungarians Victory. Rebellion crushed; 3 August ...
After World War II, the Second Hungarian Republic was established within Hungary's current-day borders as a socialist People's Republic, lasting from 1949 to the end of communism in Hungary in 1989. The Third Republic of Hungary was established under an amended version of the constitution of 1949 , with a new constitution adopted in 2011.
Communist rule in the People's Republic of Hungary came to an end in 1989 by a peaceful transition to a democratic system. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary remained a communist country. As the Soviet Union weakened at the end of the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc disintegrated.
The state considered itself the heir to the Hungarian Soviet Republic, which was formed in 1919 as one of the first communist states created after the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). It was designated a "people's democratic republic" by the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
It was founded on November 24, 1918, as Party of Communists in Hungary, and was in power between March and August 1919 when Béla Kun ran the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. The communist government was later overthrown by the Romanian Army, Kun was exiled to Vienna and later he and many other communists moved to Moscow. During those ...