Communist or Communist sympathizer until Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Poland in 1989 (while Czechoslovakia maintained a multi-party system until the coup d'état of February 1948, its prime minister at the time of Nagy's ouster was the Communist leader Klement Gottwald). Exile Nagy documented his life and political career in The Struggle behind the Iron Curtain, published by MacMillan in 1948, and royalties from his memoirs helped him buy a house with a substantial garden plot in Herndon, Virginia (then an exurb of Washington, D.C.). He was heavily involved in exile politics and served as a member of the Hungarian Committee in exile, and also attended the Bandung Conference in 1955 as an observer on behalf of the US government. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he attempted to return to his home country, but the authorities in Austria prevented him from doing so in order to preserve their country's neutrality. In 1959, he was reported to have been the president of Permindex, a trade organization headquartered in Basel, Switzerland He served as the president of the International Peasant Union from 1964 to 1970. In the 1960s he was a lecturer at various American universities, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Berkeley and Indiana University in Bloomington. He retired from active political life in 1970, but in 1977 he spoke out in support of the return of the Holy Crown of Hungary from the United States to Hungary. He died unexpectedly at his farm in Herndon in 1979 while planning a return to his home country. References Further reading Audiobook on tape : Lectures, speeches; English. External links Speech by Ferenc Nagy on 23 March 1968, discussing America and the future of East Central Europe. Audio recording from The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues 1903 births 1979 deaths Defence ministers of Hungary Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed Christians Hungarian emigrants to the United States Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1939–1944) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1945–1947) People from Baranya County People from the Kingdom of Hungary Prime Ministers of Hungary Speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary People from Herndon, Virginia