Ivan Mondok

Ivan Mondok was a Carpatho-Ukrainian communist politician. He was born in 1893.[1] He served as the secretary of the Transcarpathian regional organization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[2]

Mondok was a teacher by profession.[3] During the First World War, he fought in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front.[3] He was captured and spent time in Russia as a prisoner of war. During his stay in Russia, he became a communist.[3]

Mondok arrived in Budapest in 1919, and joined the ranks of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.[3] In 1920 he moved back to Užhorod.[3] He founded the International Socialist Party of Subcarpathian Rus' (one of the forerunners of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia), and became the secretary of the party.[4]

He became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1923.[3]

Mondok was elected to the Czechoslovak Chamber of Deputies in the 1924 Užhorod by-election.[1] He was re-elected in the 1925 Czechoslovak parliamentary election.[5] He served as editor of Karpatska Pravda between 1927 and 1928.[3]

In 1928 he was elected to the International Control Commission of the Communist International.[3] As Klement Gottwald rose to power in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Mondok was stripped of his role in the party hierarchy.[3] Mondok migrated to the Soviet Union in the same year.[6] He became a member of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine.[3] He was purged in December 1933, accused by the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International of collaboration with the class enemy and subsequently arrested.[3][6] Mondok died in 1941.[1]

References
  1. Poslanecká sněmovna. Ivan Mondok
  2. Joshua A. Fishman (3 May 2011). The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon. Walter de Gruyter. p. 298. ISBN 978-3-11-084898-4.
  3. Milorad M. Drachkovitch (1973). Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Hoover Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-8179-8403-8.
  4. Иван Кремпа (1979). За интернациональное единство революционного рабочего движения Чехословакии. Наука. pp. 55–59.
  5. Poslanecká sněmovna. Ivan Mondok
  6. České země a moderní dějiny Evropy: studie k dějinám 19. a 20. století. Historickẏ ústav AV. 2010. p. 127.
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