Hungarian People's Republic

Magyar Népköztársaság (Hungarian)
StatusMember of the Warsaw Pact (1955–1989)
Satellite state of the Soviet Union
CapitalBudapest
Common languagesHungarian
GovernmentUnitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic
General Secretary
• 1949–1956
Mátyás Rákosi
• 1956
Ernő Gerő
• 1956–1988
János Kádár
• 1988–1989
Károly Grósz
Head of State
• 1949–1950 (first)
Árpád Szakasits
• 1988–1989 (last)
Brunó Ferenc Straub
Head of Government
• 1949–1952 (first)
István Dobi
• 1988–1989 (last)
Miklós Németh
LegislatureNational Assembly
History
• Foundation
20 August 1949
• Admitted to the United Nations
14 December 1955
• Hungarian Revolution
23 October 1956
• Economic Mechanism
1 January 1968
• End of Communism
23 October 1989