Béla, Illes (1895 - 1974)
Béla, Kun [Béla Kohn ] (1886 - 1938), preface
Tissa gorit (Po stopam revolitsii v Srednei Evrope). Roman. Avtorizovannyi perevod Sergeia Berner. S predisloviiami Bela Kuna i P. Gaidu. Kniga Pervaia. Izdanie 2-e. M.-L., 1931. 285 p. ( Deshevaia biblioteka OGIZA, # 170 - 174 ) €75
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8 vo, decorative publisher´s binding with attractive design and Béla Illes portrait. A list of Deshevaia Biblioteka Ogiza (DBO) publications printed on back cover.Water stain on front cover. Durable paper. GOOD TO VERY GOOD. VERY RARE.

Illés, Béla (1895–1974), Hungarian writer, who, after participating in World War I, became a pacifist and joined the Communist Party in Hungary. After the failure of the soviet republic in Hungary in 1920, he emigrated to Vienna and later settled in the Soviet Union, where he became a leading member of the International Organization of Revolutionary Writers. Many of his novels and stories were published in German for the German speaking ethnic groups in the Soviet Union. Illés made use of traditional oral tales and fables and expressionist techniques to draw parallels with political conditions in Europe. His major purpose was to illustrate in symbolic form the lessons that the oppressed classes had to learn if they were to triumph in the class struggle.
'Tissa gorit' (Ég a Tisza) was first published in Russian (two editions appearing the same year) and much later in Hungarian. Béla Kun´s letter to Béla Illes published in this edition and his preface served a bad service to the book´s fate. After Béla Kun´ arrest and execution in Soviet prison the book was withdrawn from circulation and subsequently sent to furnace.