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That statement by no means applies to all Hungarians, and the comfort that exists has been hard won. Hungary's first experiments with marketplace reforms were crushed during the country's 1956 uprising against Soviet domination. Paradoxically, the man who presided over the suppression of that revolt, Janos Kadar, now 73 and still the country's leader, made today's relative prosperity possible...
Even as he threw rebellious students and workers into prison, Kadar ordered economists to diagram an overhaul for the country. "It was clear that centralized planning had failed," says Ivan T. Berend, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. "If we were to provide a comfortable standard of living, market principles had to be introduced." Unstated by Hungarian authorities was the premise that in return for that comfort the population would live passively under Communist rule...
...quiet ways, some change is at work; its most advanced expression is in Hungary. Communist Party Chief Janos Kadar, who demonstrated his fealty to Moscow during the 1956 uprising, in 1968 launched the East bloc's most successful economic reforms. He began to decentralize the economic system, introducing some free-market management methods and profit incentives. Later, the state allowed private ownership for some small and middle-size businesses. In effect, Kadar entered into an unwritten contract with the Hungarian people, allowing them a measure of freedom in their domestic lives as long as they left politics to the party...
Harvard Class Marshal finalists are: Selamawi H. Asgedom of Pforzheimer House, Jobe G. Danganan of Mather, Nicolas K. Davis of Quincy, Kadar A. Lewis of Dunster, Peter S. Manasantivongs of Eliot, Sharmil S. Modi of Leverett, Kimble Poon of Mather, and Baratunde R. Thurston of Lowell, who is also a Crimson executive...
...Kadar A. Lewis...