Béla Illés (Born: Béla Lipner from Kassa,

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; now Košice,

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), March 22, 1895 –

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, January 5, 1974) was a Hungarian left-wing writer and journalist who spent much of his life in exile in the

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. In the now communist Hungary, he was not particularly appreciated by the Minister of Culture,

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, nor by

György Lukács György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; hu, szegedi Lukács György Bernát; german: Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aesth ...

. However, he was used as a writer of the mass articles glorifying the communist system and the Soviet Union. He himself took the model role for literary

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. In 1948, he (found) the story of the Belarusian cavalry captain Alexei Gusev, who had opposed the tsarist intervention in the suppression of the 1848 revolution in Hungary in 1848, and had been executed for it. This story was now to put the Soviet-Hungarian relationship on a new footing at the Centennial commemoration, which was celebrated in Hungary on a grand scale. His writing was printed en masse, and streets were named after Goosev.

Publications

* Carpathian Rapody was fst published in English in 1963 by Corvina, trans. Grace Blair the wife of Emil Gardos

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* 1974 deaths 1895 births Writers from Košice 20th-century Hungarian journalists Hungarian expatriates in the Soviet Union {{Hungary-writer-stub