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Béla Kun

1886 - 1938

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Béla Kun (Hungarian: Kun Béla, born Béla Kohn; 20 February 1886 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician who in 1919 governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After attending Franz Joseph University at Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Kun had worked as a journalist until World War I. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, was captured by the Imperial Russian Army in 1916, and was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Ural Mountains. In Russia Kun embraced communist ideas, and in 1918 in Moscow he co-founded a Hungarian arm of the Russian Communist Party. He befriended Vladimir Lenin and fought for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Kun is the 1,147th most popular politician (down from 990th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 18th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Romanian Politician.

Béla Kun was a Hungarian communist revolutionary who led the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Béla Kun ranks 1,147 out of 19,576. Before him are Sima Yi, John I of Portugal, Sviatoslav I of Kiev, Alfonso XII of Spain, Chaim Weizmann, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. After him are Constantine IX Monomachos, Frederick V of Denmark, Yun Posun, Modu Chanyu, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, and Şehzade Cihangir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Béla Kun ranks 9. Before him are Alfonso XIII of Spain, Diego Rivera, Robert Schuman, Robert Robinson, Manne Siegbahn, and Oskar Kokoschka. After him are Jean Arp, Sergey Kirov, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Karl von Frisch, and Ernst Thälmann. Among people deceased in 1938, Béla Kun ranks 15. Before him are Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, Nikolai Bukharin, Kanō Jigorō, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. After him are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Karl Kautsky, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Carl von Ossietzky, and Suzanne Valadon.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Béla Kun ranks 22 out of 844. Before him are Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Radu cel Frumos (1438), Constantin Brâncuși (1876), Vlad II Dracul (1395), Paul Celan (1920), and Theodoric I (393). After him are Ion Iliescu (1930), Carol II of Romania (1893), György Ligeti (1923), János Bolyai (1802), Nadia Comăneci (1961), and Stephen III of Moldavia (1433).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Béla Kun ranks 13. Before him are Ion Antonescu (1882), Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Radu cel Frumos (1438), Vlad II Dracul (1395), and Theodoric I (393). After him are Ion Iliescu (1930), Carol II of Romania (1893), Stephen III of Moldavia (1433), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Klaus Iohannis (1959), and Álmos (820).

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