biography
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| (1886–c.1939)
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| biography:
| Hungarian political leader and revolutionary, born in Szilágycseh, S Hungary. He was a journalist, soldier, and prisoner in Russia, and in 1918 founded the Hungarian Communist Party. In March 1919 he organized a Communist revolution in Budapest, and set up a Soviet republic which succeeded Karolyi's government. It failed to gain popular support, and he was forced to flee for his life in August of that year. After escaping to Vienna he returned to Russia. Some historians believe that he was killed in a Stalinist purge. |
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