Imre Nagy
| Imre Nagy | |
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| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary | |
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In office 4 July 1953 – 18 April 1955 |
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| Preceded by | Mátyás Rákosi |
| Succeeded by | András Hegedűs |
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In office 24 October 1956 – 4 November 1956 |
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| Preceded by | András Hegedűs |
| Succeeded by | János Kádár |
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| Born |
7 June 1896 Kaposvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 16 June 1958 (aged 62) Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Political party |
Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Working People's Party |
| Spouse(s) | Mária Égető |
| Children | 1 |
Imre Nagy (/ˈnɒdʒ/; Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈnɒɟ]; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.
Nagy was born in Kaposvár, to a peasant family and was apprenticed to a locksmith. His father, József Nagy (1869–1925) was a manorial servant, a county worker, and was later post assembly worker, and his mother, Rozália Szabó (1877–1969) served as a maid before she was married. He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and served on the Eastern Front. He was taken prisoner in 1915. He became a member of the Russian Communist Party and joined the Red Army.
Nagy returned to Hungary in 1921. In 1930 he travelled to the Soviet Union and rejoined the Communist Party, also becoming a Soviet citizen. He was engaged in agricultural research, but also worked in the Hungarian section of the Comintern. He was expelled from the party in 1936 and later worked for the Soviet Statistical Service. Rumours that he was an agent of the Soviet secret service surfaced later, begun by Hungarian party leader Károly Grósz in 1989, allegedly in an attempt to discredit Nagy. There is evidence, however, that Nagy did serve as an informant for the NKVD during his time in Moscow and provided names to the secret police as a way to prove his loyalty (a common tactic for foreign communists in the Soviet Union at the time).
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