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A brief history of Hungary and Soviet-Hungarian relations to the end ofWorld War II; Kadar's youth and his early involvement with the CommunistParty; a short post-war experiment in democracy and the Communist accessionto power; power struggle in the Hungarian Communist Party in the mid-1950s;the Hungarian uprising, October 23-November 4, 1956; Soviet defeat of theuprising and the installation of Janos Kadar as Hungary's new leader; Kadarconsolidation of his hold on the party and the revival of the economy; riftwith the United States and special relationship with Khrushchev; thecollectivization of agriculture and Kadar's journey to the UN; Kadar'semergence as a leader in his own right; Kadar's bold experiment - theintroduction of the new economic mechanism - 1968; the Czechslovak crisis of1968; the slowing of the reforms and the effects of the worldwide priceexplosion; return to the reforms and mounting economic problems; the end ofthe Kadar era; Kadar's replacement by Grosz.