Khrushchev's Failure Of Economic Reform
Khrushchev's ouster in 1964 failed to weaken Hungary's desire for reform. In fact, Kadar responded by stating that the political and economic attitude of People's Republic of Hungary had not changed nor, would it change anytime in the future. However, in December of 1964, a central committee approved economic reform in Hungary to help stabilize and jump start the economy. One of the major economic policies that eventually brought the Hungary Revolution to the for front was a new economic policy that was implanted with the intention to help the pricing system. This new policy helped to introduce a new pricing system they thought would stabilize the economy and create political stability. With the NEM, the government sought to overcome the
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The sad part about it was that the regime didn't fully understand the concept of decentralization. The Kadar regime failed to understand that real economic decentralization required political reform to resolve conflicts that naturally arose between different interest groups. The government's problem was to expand "socialist democracy," that is, to build a system that would simultaneously resolve conflicts. Thus, the economic reforms of the late 1960s had also come to provoke political and economic reform. These new departures were inspired in large measure by Hungarian nationalism. This strong force of nationalism allowed for an uprising that challenged that the Soviet Regime. Essentially, this economic policy was one of the reason that made the Hungarian people revolt, but by far not the only one. Another way the collapse of communism came about in Hungary was due to the fact there was so much domestic political pressure that pushed the country further and further away communism. One aspect was the attitude that the people of Hungary had on communism. In 1988, the People's Republic of Hungary allowed many citizens to travel to the west. Hungary didn't expect what happen next. This allowed many Eastern Germans to travel to communist countries mainly
The sad part about it was that the regime didn't fully understand the concept of decentralization. The Kadar regime failed to understand that real economic decentralization required political reform to resolve conflicts that naturally arose between different interest groups. The government's problem was to expand "socialist democracy," that is, to build a system that would simultaneously resolve conflicts. Thus, the economic reforms of the late 1960s had also come to provoke political and economic reform. These new departures were inspired in large measure by Hungarian nationalism. This strong force of nationalism allowed for an uprising that challenged that the Soviet Regime. Essentially, this economic policy was one of the reason that made the Hungarian people revolt, but by far not the only one. Another way the collapse of communism came about in Hungary was due to the fact there was so much domestic political pressure that pushed the country further and further away communism. One aspect was the attitude that the people of Hungary had on communism. In 1988, the People's Republic of Hungary allowed many citizens to travel to the west. Hungary didn't expect what happen next. This allowed many Eastern Germans to travel to communist countries mainly