Béla Kun [SEP] country of citizenship
participated in the March Action (1921), a failed socialist uprising in Germany.
During the Great Purge of the late 1930s, Kun was arrested, interrogated, tried, and executed in quick succession. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956, following the death of Joseph Stalin and the critical reassessment of Stalinism.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Béla Kohn, later known as Béla Kun, was born on 20 February 1886 in the village of Lele, located near Szilágycseh, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (today
and eventual success is always decided by boldness and raw courage… this is why Petőfi condemned his compatriots for the sin of opportunism and hesitation when faced with the great problems of their age… Petőfi's works must be regarded as the law of the Hungarian soul… and of the… love of the country".
Béla magyarized his birth surname, "Kohn," to "Kun" in 1904, although the almanac of the University of Kolozsvár still referred to him in print by his former name as late as 1909