József Révai
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József Révai | |
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Minister of Popular Culture | |
In office 11 June 1949 – 4 July 1953 | |
Prime Minister | István Dobi (1949–1952) Mátyás Rákosi (1952–1953) |
Preceded by | Gyula Ortutay (as Minister of Education) |
Succeeded by | József Darvas |
Member of the High National Council | |
In office 11 May 1945 – 27 September 1945 Serving with Béla Miklós and Béla Zsedényi | |
Preceded by | Ernő Gerő |
Succeeded by | Mátyás Rákosi |
Personal details | |
Born | József Lederer 12 October 1898 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 4 August 1959 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 60)
Political party | Hungarian Communist Party (1918–1948) Hungarian Working People's Party (1948–1956) Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1956–1959) |
Profession | Politician, journalist, writer |
József Révai (born József Lederer; 12 October 1898 – 4 August 1959) was a Hungarian communist politician, statesman and cultural ideologue.
Life and career
Révai was born to a Jewish family.
Révai controlled all aspects of Hungary's cultural life from 1948 until 1953; from 1949 he was also the Minister of Culture. After 1953 his influence decreased.
Between 1945–1956 he was a member of the Central Committee of his party, which was renamed in 1948 to Hungarian Working People's Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja; MDP) after merging with the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt, MSZDP). He was the member of the Political Committee (1945–1953; 1956). After the Workers' Party was dissolved and the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party took over its role as the ruling Communist party, Révai became a member of the new party's Central Committee in 1957. He was vice-president to the Presidential Committee between 1953–1958.
Révai died on August 4, 1959, after years of suffering from heart disease.
Works
- Ady (Budapest, 1945)
- Marxizmus és magyarság ("Marxism and the Hungarians"; Budapest, 1946)
- Marxizmus és népiesség ("Marxism and Popularism"; Budapest, 1946)
- Élni tudunk a szabadsággal ("We Can Live with Freedom"; Budapest, 1949)
- Kulturális forradalmunk kérdései ("Questions about our Cultural Revolution"; Budapest, 1952)
- Válogatott irodalmi tanulmányok ("Selected Essays in Literature", Budapest, 1960)
- Válogatott történelmi írások I–II. ("Selected Essays in History I–II."; Budapest, 1966).
Sources
- Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990
- Egyetemes Lexikon, Officina Nova Kiadó (1994).
References
- ISBN 0385515693, p. 144