Hungarian Soviet Republic
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The Hungarian Soviet Republic, also known as the Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived state that existed from 21 March 1919 to 1 August 1919, succeeding the First Hungaria
Proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, 21 March 1919
The government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic from left to right: Sándor Garbai, Béla Kun, Vilmos Böhm, Tibor Szamuely, György Nyisztor, Jenő Varga, Zsigmond Kunfi, Dezső Bokányi, József Pogány, Béla Vágó, Zoltán Rónai, Károly Vántus, Jenő Landler, Béla Szántó, Sándor Szabados, György Lukács, Jenő Hamburger, Gyula Hevesi, and Antal Dovcsák.
An automobile loaded with communists dashing through streets of Budapest, March 1919
Béla Kun, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Béla Kun
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Béla Kun was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who in 1919 governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
Hungarian Soviet Republic
…controlled approximately only 23% of Hungary's historic territory. The nominal head of government was Sándor Garbai, but the de facto leader was Béla Kun, leader of the Party of Communists in Hungary. Unable to reach an agreement with the Triple Entente, which maintained an economic blockade of Hungary…
Béla Kun with his family in 1915
Kun in a 1919 Comintern publication
Sándor Garbai and Béla Kun, leaders of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919