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 (1886–1938) was a Hungarian and Soviet politician, diplomat, journalist, and communist. Born Kohn Béla in Cehu Silvaniei, he was educated at Franz Joseph University and worked in Cluj-Napoca. Kun held the position of People's Commissar and was a member of both the Communist Party of Hungary and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was an atheist who spoke Hungarian and Russian.

His spouse was Irén Gál, and he had a daughter named Ágnes Kun. Kun authored works including *Marxism versus social democracy*, *Von Revolution zu Revolution*, and *La classe operaia ungherese*. He died in Moscow in 1938 due to capital punishment. His remains were buried at the Kommunarka shooting ground.

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Born: 1886
Died: 1939
Works: 36

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... Marxism versus social democracy
Von Revolution zu Revolution
La classe operaia ungherese
A Magyar Tanácsköztársasāgról
Uroki proletarskoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii v Vengrii

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Instance of: human
Given name: Béla
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Cehu Silvaniei
Place of death: Moscow
Spouse: Irén Gál
Occupation: journalist
Political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Languages spoken: Russian
Religion: atheism
Participant in: 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party
Conflict: World War I
Image: Bela-kun--outlawsdiary00tormuoft.png
Work location: Cluj-Napoca

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Commons category: Béla Kun
date of birth: 1886-02-20
date of death: 1938-08-29
manner of death: homicide
name in native language: Kun Béla
birth name: Kohn Béla
place of burial: Kommunarka shooting ground
ethnic group: Jewish people
cause of death: execution

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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.

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