László Rudas

László Rudas (born February 21, 1885 in Sárvár as Adolf Róth, † April 29, 1950 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian Comintern functionary , co-founder of the Communist Party of Hungary and a member of the party's central committee .

Life

After the fall of the Hungarian revolutionary government in 1919, Rudas emigrated to Austria , Italy , Germany and finally the Soviet Union . Until 1945 he was a political emigrant in the USSR and lecturer at the school of the Executive Committee of the Comintern . He taught at the Marx-Engels Institute , the Institute of the Red Professorship and the International Lenin School .

His work Dialectical Materialism and Social Democracy , published in 1934, was banned during the Nazi era. His work Materialista világnézet (Materialist Weltanschauung), published in 1947, was the first systematic representation of dialectical materialism in the Hungarian language.

Fonts

Adventure and liquidationism. Bela Kun's policy and the KPU crisis. Vienna 1922.
Dialectical materialism and social democracy. Publishing cooperative of foreign workers in the USSR, Moscow / Leningrad 1934.
Materialista világnézet. Szikra, Budapest 1947.
Elmélet és gyakorlat. Összegyüjtött tanulmányok. Szikra, Budapest 1950. (Theory and Practice. Collected Studies).
Literatura a demokracie. In: László Rudas, György Lukács , József Révai: Oproblemémech literatury v lidové demokracii. Literárně ideologická diskuse v Madarsku. Čsl. spisovatel, Praha 1951. (Czech).

Awards

1949: Kossuth Prize

Web links

Rudas, László . In: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia , English translation of the 3rd edition (1970–1979). Online edition at TheFreeDictionary.com (English)
Orthodox Marxism by Ladislaus Rudas (1924)

Individual evidence

^ Ralf Zwengel: idealist, opportunist, faction maker and spy (Georg Lukács) . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 51, March 1, 2000, ISSN 0174-4909 , p. N6 .
↑ László Illés (Ed.): Findings and drafts. On the development of Hungarian Marxist literary criticism and literary theory (1900–1945) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 410 .
↑ Ralf Zwengel: Escaped normality. New documents on the arrest of Georg Lukács in 1941 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 46, February 24, 1999, ISSN 0174-4909 , p. N5 ( transcript ).
↑ Ladislaus Rudas. In: VERBRANNTE and VERBANNTE , database entry .

personal data
SURNAME	Rudas, László
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Róth, Adolf (maiden name); Rudas, Ladislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian Comintern official
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sárvár
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 1950
Place of death	Budapest , Hungary

[1] Ralf Zwengel: idealist, opportunist, faction maker and spy (Georg Lukács) . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 51, March 1, 2000, ISSN 0174-4909 , p. N6 .

[2] László Illés (Ed.): Findings and drafts. On the development of Hungarian Marxist literary criticism and literary theory (1900–1945) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 410 .

[3] Ralf Zwengel: Escaped normality. New documents on the arrest of Georg Lukács in 1941 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 46, February 24, 1999, ISSN 0174-4909 , p. N5 ( transcript ).

[4] Ladislaus Rudas. In: VERBRANNTE and VERBANNTE , database entry .