Background
Kun, Bela was born on February 20, 1886 in Transylvania (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Son of a minor official.
Revolutionary Secret police official
Kun, Bela was born on February 20, 1886 in Transylvania (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Son of a minor official.
Educated at a secondary school in Cluj (now Rumania).
From the age of 16 active in workers’ movement. 1902 joined Hungarian Social-Democralic Party. Propaganda work among students in Budapest, where he helped found Marxist student organisation.
1905 instigated strikes which resulted in clashes with the police, for which he was repeatedly arrested. 1914 during World War 1 conscripted into the army. 1916 in Russia as a prisoner of war.
1916 in prisoner-of-war camp in Tomsk joined local Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) organisation. Conducted Social-Democratic propaganda among prisoners of war. After 1917 February Revol worked for Tomsk Province Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee, then for Bolshevik journal Sibirskiy rabochiy and weekly Znamya revolyutsii.
After 1917 October Revol went to Petrograd where he became acquainted with Lenin. Company-ed, Hungarian newspaper ’’Nemzetkozi Szocialista,” then newspaper "Szocialis forradalom,” which was distributed among prisoners of war. March 1918 founded Hungarian Group of Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Chairman, Centr Federation of Foreign Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Groups, which was founded in May 1918. Led international Red Army squads. Fought in the defense of Petrograd and at Narva.
Helped crush Socialist-Revol revolt in Moscow. Helped spread propaganda among German and Austro-Hungarian troops in the Ukraine. November 1918 returned to Hungary illegally and helped other Hungarian Communists found the Hungarian Communist Party.
February 1919 arrested with a group of other Communists. Imprisoned until 21 March 1919, when the Hungarian Soviet Republic was proclaimed. From the first days of the Soviet regime in Hungary People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, then People's Commissar of Military Affairs.
After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, emigrated to Austria where he was interned. 1920 went to Soviet Russia and fought against the White Guards in the Crimea. Member, Revol Military Council, Southern Front.
Chairman, Crimean Revol Committee. 1921 in Germany; helped stage March proletariat demonstrations. 1921-1923 exec Party work in the Urals.
Presidium member, All-Union Central Executive Committee. September 1923 appointed All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee plenipotentiary with the Central Committee, Russian Communist Youth League. Active in Communist International.
From 1921 member, Communist International Executive Committee. At the same time head, Hungarian Communist Party. 1928 arrested in Vienna but soon released.
Returned to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and continued political activities. Presidium member, Communist International Executive Committee. Wrote works on the history ot the international workers’ movement.
1937 arrested by State Security organs.
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Party member from 1916.
