Imre Nagy

Hungarian politician (1896-1958)

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Lived 1896–1958, aged 62
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    1896–1958
    Aged 62
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

He tried to steer Hungary out of the Soviet grip during the 1956 revolution, declared the country neutral, and was hanged for it two years later in a secret trial.

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Born to peasants in 1896, Imre Nagy worked as a locksmith before World War I swept him up. He became a committed communist after the Russian Revolution and spent the 1920s in underground party work, then lived in the Soviet Union from 1930 — serving as an NKVD informer through the 1930s. Returning to Hungary near the war's end, he won popular support as Minister of Agriculture in 1944–45 by dividing up land among peasants, then served as Interior Minister before becoming Prime Minister in 1953. He tried to soften Mátyás Rákosi's Stalinist policies but was forced out in 1955 by Rákosi's faction…

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