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Mar 25, 1874 Jimbolia, Timiș County, Romania Died on 06 Sep 1925 (aged 51)
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About Péter Ágoston
- Péter Ágoston (25 March 1874 - 6 September 1925) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1919.
- Before the First World War, he published articles for the Világ, Népszava, Huszadik század and the Szocializmus newspapers.
- After the Aster Revolution, he was the Chairman of the National Council in Nagyvárad.
- In Dénes Berinkey's cabinet, he served as state secretary of the interior.
- During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he tried to make connections with the Entente Powers as deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs.
- Gyula Peidl appointed him as People's Commissar, but after few days the Peidl cabinet fell after a coup led by István Friedrich.
- Ágoston was arrested and sentenced to death.
- However, he was transferred to the Soviet Union through the occasion of a prisoner exchange.
- After that, he lived in emigration in (Moscow, London, and finally Paris).
- He translated works of Engels, Bebel and Mehring into Hungarian under the pseudonym, Pál Rab.
