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Béla Kun

Also known as Béla Kohn, Emmerich Schwarz, Elemér Schwarz, Imre Schwarz, Bela Kun, Bela Kohn, Elemer Schwarz

Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs

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Béla Kun was a Hungarian Communist revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and served as its People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs. He matters historically as a key figure in Hungary's brief experiment with communist rule during the turbulent period following World War I.

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Born: 1886
Died: 1939
Works: 36

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Béla Kun (Hungarian: Kun Béla, born Béla Kohn; 20 February 1886 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who in 1919 governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

After attending Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Kun had worked as a journalist until World War I. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, was captured by the Imperial Russian Army in 1916, and was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Ural Mountains. In Russia Kun embraced communist ideas, and in 1918 in Moscow he co-founded a Hungarian arm of the Russian Communist Party. He befriended Vladimir Lenin and fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.