Bela Kun’s dictatorship lasted for half a year. Half a year in which the policies of the Bolshevik regime ruined the country. In a last ditch effort to regain popular support, the dictator rallied his armies against the Czechoslovaks and Romanians, wanting to take...
The book of Romanian historian Florin Constantiniu, “A sincere history of the Romanian people”, produced, ever since its first edition, a wide-reaching impact in Romanian society. The “sincere and honest” approach of history was sorely lacking from Romanian...
The Hungarian communists did not enjoy popular sympathy in early 1919, but this would change after their leaders were detained by the police, and the party secretary, Béla Kun, was beaten in custody. The inability of Budapest’s Berinkey government to gain the support...
The victory of the Hungarian communist revolution led to the establishment of the first Bolshevik regime in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. The de facto leader of the new regime was Béla Kun, the secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party and the...
When the regime of Béla Kun was installed in Hungary, the Supreme Council had already decided to support the great majority of Romania’s claims at the Paris Peace Conference. Bela Kun came from a small village in Transylvania. Prior to the war, relatives...