Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Playlist with all the episodes:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS6GirUcyM-53gm0T6f0Kc0
This episode discusses:
- The 1949 elections in Hungary and the Independent People's Front
- The Five Year Plan (1950-54) and Hungarian industrialization
- The Stakhanovite movement in Hungary
Other aspects of the Five Year Plan and socialist construction, such as agricultural collectivization, improvements in education and culture etc. will be discussed separately. This video focuses on the industrialization.
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Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-8-the-1949-elections-and-first-five-year-plan
SOURCES:
Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962*
Bennett Kovrig, Communism in Hungary: from Kun to Kādār
Jörg K. Hoensch, A history of modern Hungary
Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm
Rakosi, Unity congress of the Workers' Party of Hungary
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/rakosi-unity-congress-workers-party-of-hungary.pdf
Rakosi, Report to the Second Congress of the Hungarian Working People's Party
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm
Rakosi, Speech at the Introduction of the Budget for 1953 in the National Assembly
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosibudg.htm
Rakosi, Strengthening the People’s Democratic Order
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/CPHstreng.htm
Péter Gál & Gyula Németh, Hungary: A Comprehensive Guide
Zsigmond Móricz, Relations
archive.org/details/relations0000mori/mode/2up
Zsuzsanna Borvendég & Mária Palasik in "In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe" ed. Doubravka Olšáková
Zinner, Revolution in Hungary
Stone, Hungary: A short history
László Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: between the United States and the Soviet Union
Ernst Helmreich, Hungary
Shawcross, Crime and compromise: Janos Kadar and the politics of Hungary since revolution
Klugmann, From Trotsky to Tito
marxists.org/history/international/comintern/1951/trotsky-tito/index.htm
Gunther, Behind the curtain
Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 1993
Warriner, Revolution In Eastern Europe
Borsányi & Kende, The History of the Working Class Movement in Hungary*
Janos Berecz, 1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary*
Hugh Seton-Watson, introduction to Imre Nagy On Communism
Henrik Vass, Studies on the History of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement (1867-1966)*
From the vanguard to the margins: workers in Hungary, 1939 to the present: selected essays by Mark Pittaway
Árpád Pünkösti, Rákosi a hatalomért
Aczel & Meray, Revolt of the mind
Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Eric Roman, Hungary and the victor powers, 1945-1950
Edgar Snow, Stalin Must Have Peace
Agnes Heller, Legitimation Deficit and Legitimation Crisis in East European Societies
See also Erno Gero's discussion of theoretical aspects of Stakhanovism in Hungary: "About the Stakhanovite Movement in the People’s Democracies"
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PDStakhanov.pdf
*Nemes, Borsanyi & Kende, Berecz and Vass are kadarist revisionist authors. They correctly describe the successes of the first 3 years of the Five Year Plan but falsely accuse the increased plan targets of being ultra-leftist and causing problems. This topic will be covered when we start discussing the rise of Hungarian revisionism.
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Playlist with all the episodes:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS6GirUcyM-53gm0T6f0Kc0
This episode discusses:
- The 1949 elections in Hungary and the Independent People's Front
- The Five Year Plan (1950-54) and Hungarian industrialization
- The Stakhanovite movement in Hungary
Other aspects of the Five Year Plan and socialist construction, such as agricultural collectivization, improvements in education and culture etc. will be discussed separately. This video focuses on the industrialization.
------------------
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-8-the-1949-elections-and-first-five-year-plan
SOURCES:
Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962*
Bennett Kovrig, Communism in Hungary: from Kun to Kādār
Jörg K. Hoensch, A history of modern Hungary
Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm
Rakosi, Unity congress of the Workers' Party of Hungary
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/rakosi-unity-congress-workers-party-of-hungary.pdf
Rakosi, Report to the Second Congress of the Hungarian Working People's Party
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm
Rakosi, Speech at the Introduction of the Budget for 1953 in the National Assembly
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosibudg.htm
Rakosi, Strengthening the People’s Democratic Order
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/CPHstreng.htm
Péter Gál & Gyula Németh, Hungary: A Comprehensive Guide
Zsigmond Móricz, Relations
archive.org/details/relations0000mori/mode/2up
Zsuzsanna Borvendég & Mária Palasik in "In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe" ed. Doubravka Olšáková
Zinner, Revolution in Hungary
Stone, Hungary: A short history
László Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: between the United States and the Soviet Union
Ernst Helmreich, Hungary
Shawcross, Crime and compromise: Janos Kadar and the politics of Hungary since revolution
Klugmann, From Trotsky to Tito
marxists.org/history/international/comintern/1951/trotsky-tito/index.htm
Gunther, Behind the curtain
Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 1993
Warriner, Revolution In Eastern Europe
Borsányi & Kende, The History of the Working Class Movement in Hungary*
Janos Berecz, 1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary*
Hugh Seton-Watson, introduction to Imre Nagy On Communism
Henrik Vass, Studies on the History of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement (1867-1966)*
From the vanguard to the margins: workers in Hungary, 1939 to the present: selected essays by Mark Pittaway
Árpád Pünkösti, Rákosi a hatalomért
Aczel & Meray, Revolt of the mind
Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Eric Roman, Hungary and the victor powers, 1945-1950
Edgar Snow, Stalin Must Have Peace
Agnes Heller, Legitimation Deficit and Legitimation Crisis in East European Societies
See also Erno Gero's discussion of theoretical aspects of Stakhanovism in Hungary: "About the Stakhanovite Movement in the People’s Democracies"
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PDStakhanov.pdf
*Nemes, Borsanyi & Kende, Berecz and Vass are kadarist revisionist authors. They correctly describe the successes of the first 3 years of the Five Year Plan but falsely accuse the increased plan targets of being ultra-leftist and causing problems. This topic will be covered when we start discussing the rise of Hungarian revisionism.
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