Socialist Construction in Hungary [antikvár]

JÁNOS KÁDÁR (b.1912). First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and Member of the National Assembly.Born of working-class parents, János Kádár began to work in early childhood, first in agriculture, then as an unskilled labourer and later as a toolmaker. He joined the working-class movement at the age of 17. He participated in the big demonstration held in Budapest on September 1st, 1930, was an organizer of the communist young workers' movement and in 1931 a member of the Central Committee of the Young Communist Workers' League of Hungary. In the same year he became a member of the underground Communist Party. Beginning with 1931 he was under constant surveillance by the Horthyite police: he was arrested on several occasions and sentenced for shorter or longer terms in prison (in 1935 for two years).During the Second World War, from May 1942, János Kádár was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Hungary and in 1943 he became the Secretary of the Party which was, of course, still illegal at the time. He had a leading role in organizing the anti-fascist independence movement. Arrested in April 1944, he managed to escape and, beginning with November 1944, participated again in the organization of the anti-nazi resistance movement. After the Liberation he was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party. He was a member of the Provisional National Assembly. Up to May 1945 he was active in the organization of the democratic police of Budapest, and for a while headed the cadre department of the Central Committee.From May 1945 until 1948 János Kádár was the secretary of the Budapest Party Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party. In October 1946 the Third Congress of the Hungarian Communist Party and in June 1948 the First Congress of the Hungarian Working People's Party elected him Deputy General Secretary of the Party. In 1948 he was appointed Minister of the Interior. In 1951 he was arrested under false charges.7