People of the Revolution and the USSR
Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
Background: Hungary
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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GlossaryParty of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
- Aurél Stromfeld Stromfeld Aurél Professional officer who as chief of staff of the Hungarian Red Army directed the northern campaign of 1919
- György Lukács Lukács György Founder of Western Marxism: the Hungarian thinker who reoriented 20th-century Marxist philosophy with History and Class Consciousness
- Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror
- József Cserny Cserny József Communist paramilitary commander who led the Lenin Boys and was a leading participant in the Red Terror of 1919
- Ottó Korvin Korvin Ottó Communist who ran the political police of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as head of its political investigation department
- Imre Sallai Sallai Imre Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing
- Sándor Fürst Fürst Sándor Member of the Hungarian Communist leadership hanged with Imre Sallai after a summary trial that used the Biatorbágy bombing as a pretext
- Zoltán Schönherz Schönherz Zoltán Underground Communist leader who organised anti-war demonstrations through the Independence Committee and was executed in 1942
- Ferenc Rózsa Rózsa Ferenc Communist who was the first editor of the underground Szabad Nép and died in custody after his arrest in 1942