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Author Sakmyster, Thomas L

Title A communist odyssey : the life of József Pogány/John Pepper / Thomas Sakmyster
Published Buapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2012

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Contents The making of József Pogány -- The revolutionary, 1918-1919 -- The communist -- Vienna, Moscow, and Berlin -- The "Hungarian Christopher Columbus" -- "Pepperism" in America -- The Comintern cadre -- Pepper and the "American question," 1924-1928 -- Return to the new world -- End of the odyssey
Summary A group of Central European communists, most of them Hungarians, in the interwar period served the world communist movement as international cadres of the Comintern, the Moscow-based Communist International. As an important member of this cohort, József Pogány played a major role in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, the "March Action" in Germany in 1921, and, under the name of John Pepper, in the development of the American Communist Party of the 1920s. During the 1920s he was an important official in the Comintern apparatus and undertook missions on three continents. A prolific writer and effective organizer, he was one of the most flamboyant and controversial communists of his era. Some of his comrades praised him as "the Hungarian Christopher Columbus." Others, like Trotsky, called him a "political parasite."This study is based on newly available primary sources from Hungary, Russia, and the United States; it is the first ever written about this colorful and well-travelled Hungarian communist. Examines Pogány's development as a socialist and communist, the influence of his Jewish origins on his career, the reasons for his remarkable success in the United States, and the circumstances that led to his arrest and execution in the Stalinist terror
Analysis 20th century, Biography, Communism, Germany, Hungary, Soviet Union, United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pogány, József, 1886-1938.
Pepper, John, 1886-1938.
SUBJECT Pepper, John, 1886-1938
Pogány, József, 1886-1938
Pepper, John, 1886-1938 fast
Pogány, József, 1886-1938 fast
Subject Communists -- Hungary -- Biography
Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Communism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Communism
Communists
Europe
Hungary
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9786155225529
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