Ivan Mondok

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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]

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