History of the Hungarian People’s Republic (PART 8: The Five Year Plan)

Playlist with all the episodes:
https://www.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:
https://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
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm

Rakosi, Unity congress of the Workers' Party of Hungary
https://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
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm

Rakosi, Speech at the Introduction of the Budget for 1953 in the National Assembly
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosibudg.htm

Rakosi, Strengthening the People’s Democratic Order
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/CPHstreng.htm

Péter Gál & Gyula Németh, Hungary: A Comprehensive Guide

Zsigmond Móricz, Relations
https://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
https://www.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"
https://www.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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