Béla Kun

Béla Kun (delivery) was born in 1886 in the village from Szilágycseh, in Transylvania (territory then Hungarian, but become Rumanian).

Biography

Jew, of democratic social obedience, it enters rather young person in policy. Initially in Transylvania then with Budapest. It is mobilized in 1914 and leaves to fight on the Russian face. Captive fact in 1916, it is interned in a prison camp. There, he discovers the Bolchevism, the texts of Marx and the revolutionists whom he finally decides to join.

In Russia, it meets Lénine. This last the intelligent judge, energetic and equipped with a great charisma. The Bolsheviks consider that Kun is ready to transpose the model Communiste in Hungary. Bela Kun then follows courses in revolutionary tactic like in Propagande. In 1918 and with the defeat of the central Empires, the Empire Austro-Hungarian flies in glares; Lénine thinks whereas it is time for Bela Kun to set out again with the country in order to set up a revolutionary mobility at it.

The Hungarian Revolution

Following the bursting of the Empire Austro-Hungarian, and at the fuzzy independence of the Hungary (Mihály Károlyi, then president, refusing the conditions of the Allied ) a revolutionary movement sets up in 1919 a République of the Councils (March 21st - August 1st), mode inspired very clearly of the experiment of the working councils in Russia (1905, then 1917-1918) and in Germany (1918-1919). Béla Kun is one of the leaders of this Republic of the Councils of Hungary.

However, the Rumanian invasion supports the nationalist rising carried out by the admiral Horthy, who sweeps the Republic of the Councils, condemning Kun to flee in Soviet Union, where there remained an influential time within the party. It was a leader-key of the IIIe Internationale (Komintern). Lénine was wary however of its brutal and impulsive nature, and deplored what it named its " kuneries".

During Great purgings Stalinist, it is stopped in 1937. He is assassinated in the cellars of the Loubianka, seat of NKVD on an unknown date (certain sources evoke on November 30th, 1939).

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