Hungarian revolution of 1919

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

What are the differing opinions among Communists on the Hungarian revolution in the late 1910s? What was the nature of their movement? And of its leaders like Bela Kun?

[Geiseric]

It was as legit as the Russian revolution. Too bad france supported the Romanian invasion of Hungary.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

It was as legit as the Russian revolution. Too bad france supported the Romanian invasion of Hungary.

I want to know more though. What, if any, mistakes were made, and why? Was there a way for them to practically resist the Romanians without Soviet help (which I know didn't come due to Red Army defeats)? Why was Bela Kun later criticized by Lenin?

[Geiseric]

I want to know more though. What, if any, mistakes were made, and why? Was there a way for them to practically resist the Romanians without Soviet help (which I know didn't come due to Red Army defeats)? Why was Bela Kun later criticized by Lenin?

That's a really good question. I know the director of MIA so I can ask him for a direction to look. Looking at lenins 1919 archive would probably make sense.

[motion denied]

In his memoirs, Victor Serge spends a few pages on the Hungarian Revolution. He severely criticizes Bela-Kun (something about having a load of people killed after the failure of the soviet republic just because), but that's what I can barely remember now.