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  1955, April 18. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Mátyás Rákosi was replaced as first secretary of the Hungarian Workers (Communist) Party by Erno Gero, a first deputy premier.
Anti-Russian rioters won a concession in the replacement of Stalinist Erno Gero with János Kádár as head of the Hungarian Communist Party; the rioters pressed for further concessions.
As the revolt began to spread throughout the country, the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party promised to work for the withdrawal of Soviet troops as soon as the rioting ended, and Nagy appointed leaders of the illegal Smallholders’ Party to his cabinet.
www.bartleby.com /67/3147.html   (391 words)

  
 USSR Hungary Revolt 1956
In Hungary, Mátyás Rákosi was ousted as party leader in July 1956 and replaced by Erno Gero.
But Gero was unable to contain the rising tide of unrest and discontent, which broke out into active fighting late in October, and appealed for Soviet help.
Gero called out the army, but many soldiers handed their weapons to the demonstrators and joined the uprising.
www.onwar.com /aced/data/hotel/hungary1956.htm   (799 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When they refused to disperse, Erno Gero, First Secretary of the Hungarian Workers' Party, ordered Soviet tanks onto the streets.
Gero increased tension in a country desperate to breakaway from its Stalinist past and adopt its own path to socialism.
Gero's dismissal and his successor Janos Kadar, another liberal, were announced yesterday.
www.greatestcities.com /go.bml?journal=cbray5003&itemid=313075&dir=prev   (618 words)

  
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Gero's evasiveness during that conversation was especially peculiar because he had already transmitted an appeal for urgent military assistance to the military attache at the Soviet embassy.
Khrushchev urged Gero to send a written request for help to the CPSU Presidium, but the Soviet leader soon realized, after the brief conversation ended, that events in Budapest were moving too fast for him to wait until he received a formal Hungarian request (which, incidentally, did not arrive until five days later).
Gero himself had told the Soviet comrades that protests against his election as 1st secretary were occurring.
www.wilsoncenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=library.document&topic_id=1409&id=131   (7406 words)

  
 Revolt Revisited--A Study Of The Hungarian Revolution Of October, 1956
The choice of Gero to lead the Party may have been a tactical one on the part of the Soviets, while long range strategy may have been to bring in Nagy.
However, the hated Gero was still in control of the Party and so one of the causes of discontent, the Communist Party leadership and its paracitic government, was only diluted and not removed.
Gero and Hegedus were then spirited away to the Soviet Union via Czechoslovakia and disappeared from public view.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/JCC.htm   (16911 words)

  
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On December 5, 1944, a Moscow-trained Hungarian Communist leader, Erno Gero, presented a list of the designated cabinet members to the Hungarian armistice delegation in Moscow and to the Hungarian generals who had gone over to the Red Army after the armistice proclamation of Horthy.
Gero explained that the plan for a provisional government was formulated and a list prepared with the consent of the United Kingdom and the United States.
At the first session of the Assembly, December 21, 1944, Erno Gero, as a leading Muscovite, emphasized that the policy of the Hungarian Communist Party was "a Hungarian, democratic, and national policy".
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/dipl/dipl08.htm   (5250 words)

  
 History of Hungary - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fearing revolution, Moscow replaced Rakosi with his deputy, Erno Gero, in order to contain growing ideological and political ferment.
Pressure for change reached a climax on October 23, 1956, when security forces fired on Budapest students marching in support of Poland's confrontation with the Soviet Union.
Gero called on Soviet troops to restore order on October 24.
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 Hungary's Kádár: Death of a Cadre - The World and I Magazine
His No. 2 was Erno Gero, who had been a Comintern agent and assassin in Spain's civil war.
Gero stepped in until he, too, fled at the outbreak of revolt.
It was Munnich's voice on the radio that announced the new government and called for Soviet aid against the uprising, removing that onus from Kadar.
www.worldandi.com /public/1989/september/cr11.cfm   (1761 words)

  
 1959, Nov. 30. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Kádár, Hungarian Communist Party secretary, said Soviet troops would remain in Hungary as long as the international situation required.
An official announcement disclosed that 25 “Stalinists,” including Erno Gero and Mátyás Rákosi, had been expelled from the Socialist Workers Party.
In a joint statement, Hungary declared its support of the Soviet Communist Party in its dispute with the Chinese.
www.bartleby.com /67/3150.html   (219 words)

  
 Ernest Gero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hungarian Workers Party, now under the leadership of Matyas Rakosi and Gero, received support from only 17% of the population.
However, he did managed to secure the appointment of Gero, as his successor.
Gero now moved to the Soviet Union for safety.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDgero.htm   (671 words)

  
 National Archives Learning Curve | Cold War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He refused, but Khrushchev failed to support Rakosi and replaced him with Erno Gero.
Gero introduced some minor reforms but was in a difficult position.
British intelligence services intercepted telegrams from Moscow warning Gero and the other Eastern European states not to take reform too far, or to try and be too independent from Moscow.
www.learningcurve.gov.uk /coldwar/G4/cs3/s2_u.htm   (165 words)

  
 Volconvo Debate Forums - Hungary: The Myth Exposed
The Hungarian uprising against the Stalinist Government of Erno Gero was shocking in may ways.
It was a clear example of the people's revolution backfiring on the Stalinist butchers who imposed a "People's Republic" on an unwilling populace.
The hated president, Erno Gero was forced to leave.
www.volconvo.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-326.html   (1868 words)

  
 CNN - Cold War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rakosi, who had denounced Tito years earlier, was once again removed from office, and in July of 1956 was replaced by Erno Gero.
Hungarian troops, who had been called in to assist in the radio station's defense, turned their weapons over to the crowd.
By the evening of October 23, Erno Gero turned to the Soviets for help.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/07/maps/revolt/hungary.html   (551 words)

  
 Hungarian Uprising
It was only after Gero's menacing and disastrous speech on his return from Belgrade that the State Police (which must not be confused with the "AVO", or political police) joined the students and distributed arms to them in front of the Hungarian radio broadcasting house in Sandor-Brody Street.
The officers responsible were nearly all of them Communists and not "fascist agents or Horthyist officers." The Army's revolt was a result of the turn of events which took place during the night on the banks of the Danube in the neo-Gothic building which overlooks Pariiament.
Assessing the situation, Gero began by trying to convince his colleagues of the necessity of a Soviet intervention, as the "popular forces" were being overwhelmed and the government was in danger.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDhungarianU.htm   (12191 words)

  
 Anna M
Gero allowed the ceremonial funeral of Laszlo Rajk on October 6, 1956 - but this turned into a political demonstration in Budapest.
When they failed to come out, the crowd surged forward and were fired on by the security police, the "AVO." Fighting broke out, in which the Hungarian army took the side of the people against the AVO and the Soviet garrison troops.
First Secretary Erno Gero, just back from a visit in Yugoslavia, made a radio speech to the nation warning against the actions of "enemies" of the people.
www.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect17.htm   (16911 words)

  
 The Revolutionary Movement in eastern Europe and the collapse of communism
They were reluctant to back him and used their influence to replace him with Erno Gero, whose views were in fact not much different from those of Rakosi.
Gero's appointment led to mass demonstrations in October (also in support of the Polish protesters of the "Polish October" movement).
Panicked, Gero called in the Soviet Army to quell these demonstrations and the riots they sometimes incited.
www.uvm.edu /~hst19/Online_Reading/Lecture_11.htm   (2952 words)

  
 easterneurope.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
when Gero took a publically Stalinst line in response on October 23, demos became anti- government, altho Nagy is brought back as Prime Minister
Gero appeals for Russian troops, who are forced to withdraw
Nagy deposes Gero and forms government of liberal communists, members of opposition
w3.ham.muohio.edu /~vascikgs/destalinizationtxt.html   (149 words)

  
 Spanish Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I am a Hungarian and lived under the rule of one of the "republicans from the Spanish Civil War".
His name was Erno Gero, don't recall his name in Spain.
Erno Gero was known as Pedro in Spain.
wais.stanford.edu /Spain/spain_spanishcivilwar42301.html   (290 words)

  
 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The new Soviet leadership proceeded to dilute authority at the top: control of the party leadership was separated from the apparatus of the administration.
In May 1953, Rakosi was summoned to appear in Moscow with his faithful henchmen Erno Gero and Mihaly Farkas plus two mavericks, Imre Nagy and Istvan Dobi.
Nor was Nagy's readmission to the party on October 13th sufficient to stem the rising tide of revolt.
www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1984-5/vix.htm   (2367 words)

  
 Erno Rubik --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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But Gero was unable to contain the rising tide of unrest and discontent, which broke out into active fighting late in...
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 Hungarian Revolution - Cold War - Modern World - GCSE - SchoolHistory.co.uk
Yet by 1955, hardline Communists were back in power, Nagy was deposed, and Hungary was put back under harsh Communist rule.
A new Communist leader, Erno Gero, was imposed on Hungary in 1956.
With the determination of the Hungarian people, Nagy was restored as Prime Minister, and he promised democratic reform.
www.schoolhistory.co.uk /gcselinks/modern/hungarian_revolution.html   (209 words)

  
 Free Term Papers on Poland and Hungary
However, historians can point, for example, to the 1849 tsarist invasion to help the Austrians suppress the Hungarian revolution; the communist regime under Bela Kun (March-July 1919); and the experience of the thousands of Hungarian POWs in the USSR, many of whom were not permitted to return to Hungary until well into the 1950s.
Beginning with the personality thesis, to a certain extent it is true that particular individuals, such as Edward Ochab in Poland and Erno Gero in Hungary, shaped events to a great extent.
Although Gero did not know about the student demonstration before his departure (the students had not planned it as early as 14 October), he suspected that the political situation in Hungary was grave and expressed his anxiety to Soviet Ambassador Andropov.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At 2:23 p.m., the radio announced that the Minister of the Interior had lifted the ban and at 8 o’clock in the evening, Erno Gero, First Secretary of the Communist Party would deliver an address over the radio, in an effort to calm the people.
Gero knew the revolt could not be suppressed with such a limited amount of enforcements, therefore, without permission from Premier Nagy (for a while he was practically a prisoner of the Secret Police), he asked for the fraternal assistance of the Soviet troops and got it.
Nagy tried to make promises to the people of Hungary, that negotiations would be opened with the Soviet Government for concessions, but these promises were still general in their terms, and they were conditional regarding the restoration of order.
ecampus.bentley.edu /org/modelun/HTMLobj-748/Hist_SC_Hungary_in_1956.doc   (6128 words)

  
 Hungary
As Rakosi took power again, the stir of opposition rose and Moscow replaced him with his deputy Erno Gero.
The battle turned into a popular uprising and Gero called in Soviet troops.
October 26 - Janos Kadar replaced Gero as party first secretary.
www.longwood.edu /staff/crowljw/WesternCiv/hungary.htm   (685 words)

  
 Janos Kadar, Dictator of the Month October, 2001
However, Nikita Khruschev’s denounciation of Stalinism in February 1956 sealed Rakosi’s fate, and he was removed from power by the Soviets on 18 July 1956, but he was able wield enough influence to have his friend Erno Gero succeed him.
With no confidence in Gero’s government, he was forced to resign and was replaced by Kadar.
Nagy’s anti-Soviet rhetoric continued, and on 01 November he announced Hungary’s withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact, followed by his announcement of a coalition government with Kadar on 03 November.
www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Kadar/Oct2001KadarEN.htm   (1077 words)

  
 imre nagy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After two years as Prime Minister (1953-1955), during which he promoted his "New Course" Nagy was forced to resign and was expelled from the Communist Party by hardline colleagues, including First Secretary Mátyás Rákosi as a result of the liberalizing tendency that he showed in this office.
He became Prime Minister again during the brief anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, through popular support, replacing the hardliner Erno Gero.
On 1 November he appealed to the West for help for Hungary
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 [Marxism] Hungary 1956 (Nagy and withdrawal from Warsaw Pact)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The reappointment of Rakosi, a Stalinist, and Khrushchev's "secret speech" to the 20th Communist Party Congress contributed to disquiet in Hungary.
To stave off widespread popular discontent, another Hungarian communist, Erno Gero, was appointed first secretary.
But events in Poland, as well as domestic events in Hungary, including the reburial of victims of the Hungarian Stalinist purges, led to widespread unrest.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2004-March/005768.html   (881 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Mátyás Rákosi Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On June 13 1953, to appease Tito, he was forced to give up the office of Prime Minister to Imre Nagy, while retaining the office of General Secretary.
When Nagy was forced from office after the Hungarian Revolution, Rákosi returned, only to give up office under pressure from the Soviet Politburo in June 1956 (shortly after Khrushchev's Secret Speech), and was replaced by Erno Gero.
He then fled to the Soviet Union again, where he died in Gorky in 1971.
www.ipedia.com /matyas_rakosi_1.html   (342 words)

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