KUN, BÉLA

bāˈlŏ koon, 1886–1937, Hungarian Communist. A prisoner of war in Russia after 1915, he embraced Bolshevism. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917 he was sent to Hungary as a propagandist. In 1919, Count Michael Károlyi and his government resigned and the Communists and Social Democrats formed a coalition government under Kun. Kun set up a dictatorship of the proletariat; nationalized banks, large businesses and estates, and all private property above a certain minimum; and ruthlessly put down all opposition. He raised a Red Army and overran Slovakia. The allies forced Kun to evacuate Slovakia, and a counterrevolution broke out. Kun was at first victorious over the counterrevolutionists, but he was defeated by a Romanian army of intervention and was forced to flee to Vienna. Kun's Red Terror was followed by a White Terror. Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya became regent of Hungary. Kun, after being held at an insane asylum in Vienna, went (1920) to Soviet Russia. He reappeared (1928) in Vienna and was briefly imprisoned but was allowed to return to the USSR. There he took an active part in the Comintern until he was accused of anti-Stalinism and perished in the Communist party purges of the 1930s. In the late 1950s and 1960s his reputation was restored in the USSR.

See study by R. L. Tökés (1967).

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1.
The Life and Music of Bela Bartok
Book by Halsey Stevens; Clarendon Press, 1993
Subjects: Bartok, Bela--1881-1945, Composers--Hungary--Biography
...ineffectual government under Count Mihaly Karolyi, who surrendered his powers the next March to the communist dictator Bela Kun. By sheer terrorism the latter maintained his hold for 133 days, and then fled to Vienna when the Romanian army approached...
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Szekely and Bartok: The Story of a Friendship
Book by Claude Kenneson; Amadeus Press, 1994
Subjects: Bartok, Bela--1881-1945, Composers--Hungary--Biography, Szekely, Zoltan--1903-, Violinists--Hungary--Biography
...pianist , 314 Kuhner, Felix, violinist , 223 Kulenkampff, Georg, violinist , 99 , 223 Kun, Bela, founder or the Hungarian Communist Party, 26 Kun, Imre, concert manager Hungary , 182 Kuttner, Michael, violinist , 274 -76, 279 , 283...
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Hungary in Revolution, 1918-19: Nine Essays
Book by Iván Völgyes; University of Nebraska Press, 1971
Subjects: Hungary--History--Revolution, 1918-1919
...15 Tamas Dersi, Kun Bela mint szinikritikus Bela Kun as a theatre critic , Napjaink Our Days , 1 Sept...twentieth-century group in the fall of 1906. Cf. my Bela Kun and the Hungarian Soviet Republic New York: Praeger...
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Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism
Book by Jonathan Frankel, Dan Diner; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Communism And Judaism--History--Congresses, Jewish Communists--History--Congresses, Jews--History--Book Reviews
...1969 1924), and Rudolf L. T6k6s, Bela Kun and the Hungarian Soviet Republic...biographers, including Lajos Arokay in Kun Bela (Budapest: 1986) and B61dn6 Kun (his widow) in her Kun Bela (Budapest: 1969), managed to avoid...
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Biographical Dictionary of Marxism
Book by Robert A. Gorman; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Communists--Biography--Dictionaries, Socialists--Biography--Dictionaries
...Historical Probings in Memory of D. D. Kosambi New Delhi: Peoples Publishing House, 1977 . ARVIND N. DAS KUN, BELA 1886-1939 . Bela Kun was born in the Transylvanian village of Lele on 20 February 1886. Raised in a lower middle-class family...
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Paramilitary Violence in Hungary after the First World War
Journal article by Bela Bodo; East European Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Paramilitary forces--History, World War I, 1914-1918
...rationale behind this move was that Bela Kun and his comrades would obtain Soviet...Rumanian occupation of the capital, Bela Kun and his followers finally left power...from Szatymaz and was a messenger of Bela Kun. Rudely awakened from the sweetest...
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Relations between the Communist and Social Democratic Parties in Hungary in 1945
Journal article by James Felak; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Communist parties--International aspects, Hungarian history, Hungary--History, Political parties--Hungary, Socialism--Evaluation
...experiences. The regime of the Communist Bela Kun, which ruled Hungary from March to...intentionally distancing itself from the Bela Kun fiasco.(19) For its part, the...understood the experiences of the Bela Kun regime and the 1920s and 1930s brought...
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The Songs of Tij: A Genre of Critical Commentary for Women in Nepal
Journal article by Debra Skinner, Dorothy Holland, G.B. Adhikari; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Folk festivals--Nepal, Folk-songs--Nepal, Nepal--Folklore, legends, etc., Sex role--Nepal
...garla bara-dan devatiko dhyan? phulbarima basamla phulko mala gasamla. hami chori garumla devatiko dhyan. kun bela jauli, kun bela auli? madhyenima garaula devatiko dhyan. udae jamla astae aula. madhyenima garaula devatiko dhyan. dalima...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Slavery in the Ottoman (and the British) Empire
Journal article by Adam R. Beach; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006
Subjects: Montagu, Mary Wortley--Criticism and interpretation, Montagu, Mary Wortley--Works, Ottoman Empire, ca. 1288-1922--Portrayals, Slavery--Portrayals, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works
...Effects of the Islamic and Judeo-Christian Worlds: The East European Pattern, ed. Abraham Ascher, Tibor Halasi-Kun, and Bela K. Kiraly (Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn College Press, 1979), 25-52. See also Robin Blackburns discussion (in...
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The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921: A Success Story
Journal article by John C. Swanson; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Austria--Political aspects, History--Eastern Europe, Hungarian history, Hungary--History, Political parties--Hungary
...by the end of the Soviet regime of Bela Kun in August 1919 Hungary had been reduced...was governed by the Soviet regime of Bela Kun, and by the fall of 1919 Hungary...the peace conference.(11) Once Bela Kun took command of Hungary in March 1919...
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Two Cheers for Versailles
Magazine article by Mark Mazower; History Today, Vol. 49, July 1999
Subjects: Armistices--History, Eastern Europe--History, World War, 1914-1918--Peace
...time before 1945, and that still brief experience -- the Bela Kun regime of 1919 -- had only confirmed how unpropitious...with its own form of wishful thinking. One of the reasons Bela Kun fell from power in 1919 was that he had not understood...
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Hungary's Battle for Memory
Magazine article by John W. Mason; History Today, Vol. 50, March 2000
Subjects: Hungary--History
...popular opinion believed that Bela Kuns Soviet Republic was a Jewish conspiracy -- (Kun and other leading communists...to destroy the nation. Bela Kuns Red Terror was succeeded...Hungarian Communists from Bela Kun to the present. Statue...
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Letter from Budapest
Magazine article by Richard Grenier; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 1999
Subjects: Budapest, Hungary--Social aspects, War and society--Social aspects
...Hungary--Marx, Lenin, Stalin, heroic Soviet soldiers, Bela Kun (leader of a Soviet-style revolutionary regime that...place Budapest residents refer to as "Statue Park." Bela Kun himself, having fled to the Soviet Union, disappeared...
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Marxism's Graveyard
Magazine article by Scott S. Warren; World and I, Vol. 13, October 1998
Subjects: Budapest, Hungary, Communism, Dictators, Monuments
...departure from the usual bronze or stone creations, the Bela Kun Memorial features a maddening crush of animated tin soldiers...in 1795 for taking a Freemasons oath against the king. Kun, however, was the de facto leader of the Republic of Councils...
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A Man in Full
Magazine article by Paul E. Gottfried; American Conservative, Vol. 8, September 2009
Subjects: Families & family life, Fathers, Genocide, Nazi era
...resulting in the establishment of the ill-fated and inept Bela Kun regime. This disaster made way for a rightist regency under...back on the expropriations and summary executions of the Kun interlude with undisguised nostalgia. My father surmised...
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Sweeping History of Jewish People, Religion, Notable for Its Omissions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 24, 2002
Subjects: Gilbert, Martin
...refers to the Hungarian counterrevolution which ousted Bela Kun, the Jewish Communist leader, "in which many Jews were among those killed." There is no mention of Bela Kuns Red Terror administered by his comrade, Tibor Szamuely...
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50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Weekly Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 10, 2004
...the rivers Rhone and Saone meet? 23 Which two countries fought the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333? Miklos Horthy and Bela Kun are names from which countrys 20thcentury history?Which constellation in the zodiac was once seen merely as the claws...
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Travel: SPLIT CITY MADE ME CONVERT TO BUDA; Neil Murray Is Hungary for More after Seeing Two Sides of the Danube
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), July 1, 2007
...mark the 50th anniversary of the Red Army, a giant pair of rusting cupped hands and 1919 Hungarian Revolution leader Bela Kun urging on a group of soldiers and workers. We got a further insight into life under communist rule after the tour when...
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Classical
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 21, 2011
Subjects: Singers
...something outside their normal repertoire. It is not new. Keen-eared listeners playing records from the early 1930s by the Bela Kun Dance Orchestra of Berlin will recognise the voice in songs like Irving Berlins Always, as that of Richard Tauber, although...
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Culture: Groovy Tunes for Red Squares; in the First of an Occasional Series in Which Birmingham Post Writers Shine a Light into the Dustier Corners of Their Record Collections, Comrade John Revill Tells Why He Would Never Part with His Copy of the Best of Communism
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 19, 2004
...prayers was at hand. Walking around the Statue Park Museum in Budapest amid 30ft high bronze statues of Lenin, Marx, Bela Kun and other communist luminaries a few weeks ago I heard some strange music coming from a battered old wireless set. I...
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Kun, BÉla
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KUN, BELA ba lo koon, 1886 1937, Hungarian Communist. A prisoner of war in Russia...the Communists and Social Democrats formed a coalition government under Kun. Kun set up a dictatorship of the proletariat; nationalized banks, large businesses...
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BÉla Kun
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BELA KUN see Kun, Bela . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hungary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ottocar II of Bohemia also defeated Bela, who was further threatened by his...resigned, and the Communists under Bela Kun seized power (Mar., 1919). The...and anyone associated with Karolyi or Kun. The Treaty of Trianon (see Trianon...
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Budapest
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1241, but in the 13th cent. King Bela IV built a fortress (Buda) on a hill...where St. Margaret, daughter of Bela IV, had lived in a convent. With...1919) the Communists, led by Bela Kun, gained temporary control of the city...
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Horthy De Nagybanya, Nicholas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...commanded the Austro-Hungarian fleet in World War I. After Bela Kun seized (1919) power in Hungary, the counterrevolutionary...its forces. When the Romanian forces that had defeated Kun evacuated Budapest (Nov., 1919), Horthy entered it...
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