born Feb. 20, 1886, Szilágycseh, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary
died Nov. 30, 1939?, U.S.S.R.
Hungarian communist leader.
He fought in the Austrian army in World War I, was captured by the Russians, and became a Bolshevik . After returning to Hungary in 1918, he founded the Hungarian Communist Party. When Count Comintern , he tried to foment revolution in Germany and Austria in the 1920s. Eventually accused of "Trotskyism," he fell victim to Joseph Stalin 's {{link=purge trials">purge trials .
Béla Kun, drawing by Béla Uitz, 1930; in the Legújabbkori ...
By courtesy of the Legujabbkori Torteneti Muzeum, Budapest