Imre Nagy was a lifelong communist who almost led Hungarians to freedomfrom communism. As Prime Minister in 1953, he planned to liberalize the economy and release political prisoners. In 1955, he was ...

JUNE 16, 1958: Hungary’s former Prime Minister Imre Nagy and two other leaders of the country’s crushed popular revolt against Soviet domination were executed on this day in 1958. Colonel Pal Maleter, ...

A reverential biography of murdered 1950s Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy, "The Unburied Man" is too infused with a quiet yet passionate fury to be dismissed as hagiography but too obviously ...

Plot 301 lies tucked into a distant corner of Budapest general cemetery, a weedy wasteland where zoo animals once were buried. The group of men digging there last week unearthed more than the dead.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has come under fire for the removal of a statue of a politician executed by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Opposition parties accuse Orban's right-wing government of ...

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Hungary declared a peoples republic led by first secretary of the Hungarian Communist party Matyas Rakosi. Soviet control strengthened through a series of purges carried out under Rakosi. He imprisons ...