1st Edition
A Communist Odyssey The life of József Pogány/John Pepper
By Thomas Sakmyster
Copyright 2012
266 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
PREFACE, ABBREVIATIONS, CHAPTER 1: THE MAKING OF JÓZSEF POGÁNY CHAPTER 2: THE REVOLUTIONARY, 1918-1919 CHAPTER 3: THE COMMUNIST CHAPTER 4: VIENNA, MOSCOW, AND BERLIN CHAPTER 5: THE “HUNGARIAN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS” CHAPTER 6: PEPPERISM IN AMERICA CHAPTER 7: THE COMINTERN CADRE CHAPTER 8: PEPPER AND THE “AMERICAN QUESTION,”, 1924-1928 CHAPTER 9: RETURN TO THE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 10: END OF THE ODYSSEY, CONCLUSION
Biography
Thomas Sakmyster is professor emeritus of history at the University of Cincinnati. He concentrates on international relations, foreign policy and Hungary.
