First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party

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The First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party was the top leadership post in Hungary's ruling communist party during the socialist era, effectively making its holder the country's most powerful political figure.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf party leadership position
political office
abolishedAsResultOf democratic transition in Hungary
end of communist rule in Hungary
appliesToJurisdiction Hungarian People's Republic
associatedRegimeType people's democracy
state socialism
associatedWithEvent Hungarian Revolution of 1956
authorityOver Hungarian state apparatus
government policy in Hungary
branch party leadership
controls party apparatus of the Hungarian Working People's Party
country Hungary
countryGovernedDeFacto Hungary
deFactoPowerStatus most powerful political figure in Hungary
domain politics of Hungary
endTime late 1980s
equivalentOffice First Secretary of a ruling communist party
governingSystemContext one-party socialist state
governmentalRole de facto head of government
de facto head of state
hierarchicalLevel top leadership post
historicalContext Cold War
surface form: Cold War Europe
influencedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
isPositionOf head of the ruling party in Hungary
languageOfTitle Hungarian
nativeLabel First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party self-linksurface differs
surface form: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja első titkára
officeHoldersInclude Ernő Gerő
János Kádár
Mátyás Rákosi
officeScope national
officeType party first secretary
partOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
surface form: Hungarian Working People's Party
politicalIdeology Marxism–Leninism
communism
politicalOrientation socialist
positionHeldInOrganization Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
surface form: Hungarian Working People's Party
powerBasis control of ruling communist party
residenceCountry Hungary
roleIn Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
surface form: Hungarian Working People's Party
seat Budapest
selectionMethod elected by the party leadership
startTime late 1940s
subordinateTo Communist Party leadership
surface form: Communist Party leadership in Moscow (political influence)
successorOffice General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
timePeriod socialist era in Hungary
typeOfPower single-party executive leadership

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Ernő Gerő positionHeld First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party nativeLabel First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja első titkára
Mátyás Rákosi positionHeld First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
this entity surface form: General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
Mátyás Rákosi positionHeld First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
this entity surface form: General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party