Matyas Rakosi

Rakosi, Matyas (1892–1971) Hungarian politician. He played an important role in the Hungarian communist revolution led by Béla KUN in 1919. After four years in Moscow (1920–24), Rakosi returned to Hungary but was later arrested, to be released only in 1940. In 1944 he became First Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party and during this time established a ruthless Stalinist regime. He was Prime Minister (1952–53). Opposition to his Stalinist policies led to his resignation as Party Secretary and return to the Soviet Union in 1956. The brutality of his secret police contributed to the HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION of 1956.

Mátyás Rákosi , 1892-1971, Hungarian Communist politician. An associate of Bela Kun and later a disciple of Joseph Stalin , Rákosi was one of the chief engineers of post-World War II Communist Hungary. He became premier in 1952, but was removed in 1953 as a Stalinist. His successor, Imre Nagy , was ousted in 1955 for Titoism, and Rákosi regained the premiership. In Aug., 1956, shortly before the anti-Soviet rebellion, Rákosi was again forced by anti-Stalinists to resign, and he fled to the Soviet Union. He was expelled from the Communist party in 1962 and was erroneously reported to have died in the Soviet Union in 1963.