Kun, Bela

Kun, Bela
(1886-1939)
   Hungarian communist leader. Born in a small Translyvanian town, he was educated at Kolozsvar. He joined the Hungarian Social Democratic party in 1902 and later the army. From 1918 he led the Hungarian group in the Russian Communist party. During the same year he returned to Hungary and founded the Hungarian Communist party and its organ Voeroes Ujsag. He was arrested but liberated the next year and became commissar for foreign and military affairs. He later emigrated to Austria, and then to the Soviet Union where he became a member of the Third Congress of the Communist International. He was subse-quently arrested during the Stalinist purges, and executed.

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  • Kun Béla — born Feb. 20, 1886, Szilágycseh, Transylvania, Austria Hungary died Nov. 30, 1939?, U.S.S.R. Hungarian communist leader. He fought in the Austrian army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, and became a Bolshevik. After returning to… …   Universalium

  • Kun, Bela — (1886–1939)    Bela Kun was a Hungarian communist leader who was active in the Bolshevik Party before becoming a victim of Josef Stalin’s purges. Born in Transylvania in 1886 Kun’s career in radical politics began as a journalist for a radical… …   Historical dictionary of Marxism

  • Kun, Béla — (1886–1939)    Communist dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun came from a middle class Jewish family and joined the Social Democratic Party when he was sixteen. He was a prisoner of war in Russia at the time of the revolution and immediately joined… …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

  • Kun, Bela — ► (1886 1939) Político Comunista húngaro. Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial fundó el Partido Comunista húngaro y organizó la revolución comunista de 1919. Proclamó la dictadura del proletariado, imponiendo una doctrina de principios rígidos y… …   Enciclopedia Universal

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  • Béla Kun — (February 20 1886 – August 29 1938), born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, for a brief period in 1919. Early life Kun was born in Szilágycseh, Transylvania,… …   Wikipedia

  • KUN (B.) — KUN BÉLA (1886 1939) Fondateur du Parti communiste hongrois. Le père de Béla Kun est un petit employé communal d’origine juive, non pratiquant, très attaché à la tradition radicale et nationaliste de Kossuth. Après avoir fait du journalisme, Kun… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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