Péter Ágoston was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1919. Before the First World War he published articles for the Világ, Népszava

Népszava

Népszava is a Social-democratic newspaper established in 1877 in Budapest by Viktor Külföldi. It was the official newspaper of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party until 1948....

, Huszadik század and the Szocializmus newspapers. After the Aster Revolution

Aster Revolution

The Aster Revolution or Chrysanthemum Revolution was a revolution in Hungary led by leftist liberal count Mihály Károlyi, who founded the Hungarian Democratic Republic....

 he was the Chairman of the National Council in Nagyvárad

Oradea

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. In Dénes Berinkey

Dénes Berinkey

Dénes Berinkey was a Hungarian jurist and politician who served as prime minister in the regime of Mihály Károlyi for two months in 1919. On March 20, 1919 the French presented the Vix Note ordering Hungarian troops further back into Hungary; it was widely assumed that the military lines would be...

's cabinet he served as state secretary of the interior. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic

Hungarian Soviet Republic

The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived Communist state established in Hungary in the aftermath of World War I....

 he tried to make connections with the Entente Powers as deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Gyula Peidl

Gyula Peidl

Gyula Peidl was a Hungarian trade union leader and socialist politician who served briefly as the last prime minister and acting head of state of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919....

 appointed him as People's Commissar, but after few days the Peidl cabinet fell after a coup led by István Friedrich

István Friedrich

István Friedrich was a Hungarian politician and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months in 1919....

. Ágoston was arrested and sentenced to death. However he was induced by the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 through the occasion of a prisoner exchange. After that he lived in emigration (Moscow

Moscow

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, London

London

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, finally Paris

Paris

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). He translated works of Engels, Bebel and Mehring

Franz Mehring

Franz Erdmann Mehring , was a German publicist, politician and historian.-Early years:Franz Mehring was born 27 February 1846 in Schlawe, Pomerania, the son of a bourgeois family.-Political career:...

 to Hungarian language

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

on Pál Rab pseudonym.