People of the Revolution and the USSR
Legislature and state representation
Background: Hungary
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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- Albert Apponyi Apponyi Albert Aristocratic statesman who led Hungary’s delegation to the Paris peace talks in 1920 and pleaded for revising Trianon at the League
- István Tisza Tisza István Defender of the Dual Monarchy who was Hungary’s wartime prime minister and was killed by soldiers on the day of the Aster Revolution
- Joseph August Joseph August von Österreich Habsburg archduke and last field marshal of the Austro-Hungarian army who briefly declared himself regent of Hungary in August 1919
- Gyula Peidl Peidl Gyula Printer and Social Democratic leader who headed the six-day “trade-union government” after the fall of the Soviet Republic
- István Bethlen Bethlen István Transylvanian aristocrat who, as prime minister in 1921–1931, consolidated the Horthy regime with a restricted franchise and a League loan
- Károly Peyer Peyer Károly Hungarian Social Democratic and trade-union leader who won legal status for his party in the Bethlen–Peyer Pact of 1921
- István Friedrich Friedrich István Factory owner who was prime minister of Hungary for three months after the August 1919 coup against the Peidl government
- Jusztinián Serédi Serédi Jusztinián Benedictine cardinal who led the Hungarian Catholic Church as Archbishop of Esztergom and Prince Primate in 1927–1945
- Kálmán Darányi Darányi Kálmán Gömbös’s successor as prime minister in 1936–1938, who announced the Győr programme and introduced the First Jewish Law
- Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre National radical politician who denounced the Novi Sad massacre in parliament and was executed for preparing an anti-Nazi uprising
- Béla Miklós Miklós Béla Commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Soviets in October 1944 and headed the provisional government in Debrecen
- Iván Héjjas Héjjas Iván White Terror commander whose detachment around Kecskemét carried out the Orgovány killings and the Izsák pogrom
- Andor Jaross Jaross Andor Hungarian minority leader in Czechoslovakia who, as interior minister in Sztójay’s cabinet in 1944, organised the deportation of Jews
- László Baky Baky László Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre