On the Beginnings of the Hungarian University of Economics, or the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest

The aim of the study is to describe in detail the beginnings of the Hungarian University of Economics, or the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest established in 1948 as the first Marxist university in Hungary. The study is based especially on the research in the State Archives of the Hungarian National Archives in Budapest and in the Archives of the Corvinus University of Budapest in the frame of broad research on the beginnings and the development of higher education of economic disciplines in the Central Europe. The study presents the initial period of the first separate economic university in Hungary on the background of the Hungarian Working People's Party to get the higher education in country under its control. It is also summarized the original organizational structure of the Budapest's University of Economics and its staff structure controlled by the Hungarian Working People's Party as a party gradually taking over the country's political power into its own hands at the turn of 1948 and 1949.