The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - Hungarian National Archives by Géza Érszegi and István G. Vass

organized and guided industrial and commercial recovery of the country after the war that changed the company structure and determined state property. It became the task of the Ministry of Heavy Industry Metallurgy and Machine Industry and the Ministry of Light Industry to control the production and sale of industrial and mining companies nationalized after 1949, and to develop companies and to establish new ones. Supervision and control of commercial companies, managing trade and tourism were drawn under the competence of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An important source of the history of rebuilding the country after the war is the collection of documents of Ministry of Rebuilding and Ministry of Building and Public Work. After re-organization of governmental structure in 1949 the tasks of building affairs, of supervising authorities and that of central administrative and materials control were performed by the Ministry of Housing and Public Construction, (1949 - 1967) the tasks of country and town planning and the housing official tasks were performed by the Ministry of Town and Village Management (1954 - 1956). These tasks were taken over by the Ministry of Housing and Town Planning. The Upper bodies for the exercise of jurisdiction, (1945 - 1985 XX fond main group), changed in the same way as other institutions of the period. The Curia, Couri(1945 - 1949) as the highest court judged non-appealable in the cases brought before it. It also influenced the practice of the whole organization of jurisdiction by its decisions. But under the exceptional conditions after World War II, the competence of ordinary courts was circumscribed for political reasons, to political typed criminal cases (cases of war-time and against people, organizations against the new democratic order). Legal affairs were negotiated by a newly formed organization and the people's tribunal. These were to be the first steps made towards changing the independent bourgeois, civil courts according to the striuctures of one-party system. Among the documents of these courts the documents of County Council of People's Tribunal can be found in the National Archives. The records of People's District Attorney Office that played the role of public prosecutor of the appeal court in political cases can also be found here. After abolishing the Curia and the County Council of Peoples Tribunal the Supreme Court of People's Republic came into being. The Penal and Civil College of the Supreme Court made decisions on appeal cases. Partly due to its decisions and partly to its theoretical positions. Theoretical cases, Presidential department; these two factors influenced the operation of the court organization. It also delivered demands derived from political decision makers and those of the state party to these bodies. Of particular historical interest is that all the documentation of criminal actions against political and intellectual leaders of the Revolution of 1956, Prime Minister Imre