Gyula Lengyel (born Gyula Goldstein;The number and year of the Ministry of Interior Decree containing the license are: 82212/1903. MNL-OL 30799. Microfilm Image 1006. 1. Carton, Name Change Statements in 1903, p. 14 Row 18 8 October 1888 – 8 January 1938) was a Hungarian politician of

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descent who served as

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in 1919 (with Béla Székely). For all of the

Hungarian Soviet Republic The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Szocialista Szövetséges Tanácsköztársaság) (due to an early mistranslation, it became widely known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic in English-language sources ( ...

's economic policy, he arranged the conceptual and practical forming of his financial policy inside this, and the organizing of the public supply. After the fall of the communist regime in Hungary in 1919, he emigrated to

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. His many economic and political studies were revealed in these years. In 1922, Lengyel moved to Berlin and became a colleague of the Soviet representation of foreign trade, and leader of the economic-political department then. From 1925, he collaborated in the development of the whole Soviet foreign trade as the member of a most considerable Soviet economic foreign representation's council in the then one. From 1930, he lived in the

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. He expounded a specialist and political-performing activity with a wide circle. Lengyel was arrested in 1937 by the Soviet authorities. Later, he was executed in 1938 and later was rehabilitated.

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