End of communism in Hungary

End of communism in Hungary
End of communism in Hungary
Part of the Revolutions of 1989 and the Cold War
	The reburial of Imre Nagy and other prominent figures of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on June 16, 1989, in Heroes' Square, Budapest
Date	22 May 1988 – 23 May 1990
Location	Hungary
Resulted in	Hungarian opposition victory End of the Communist state in Hungary; End of the Hungarian People's Republic and proclamation of the Third Hungarian Republic on 23 October 1989; Implementation of a multi-party liberal democracy; Free elections held in March–April 1990; Dismantling of the planned economy and implementation of a free market system; Rehabilitation of the memory of the 1956 Revolution;
Parties
Hungarian opposition Democratic Forum; Alliance of Free Democrats; Alliance of Young Democrats; Other dissident groups; ;	Government of Hungary Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party; Ministry of Internal Affairs III; Workers' Militia; ;
Lead figures
	József Antall; Péter Boross; Árpád Göncz; János Kis; Viktor Orbán János Kádár #; Károly Grósz; Rezső Nyers; Miklós Németh; Brunó Ferenc Straub; Mátyás Szűrös

Communist rule in the People's Republic of Hungary came to an end in 1989 by a peaceful transition to a democratic system. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary remained a communist country. As the Soviet Union weakened at the end of the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc disintegrated.

The events in Hungary were part of the Revolutions of 1989, known in Hungarian as the rendszerváltás (lit. 'system change').