- Name
- Eugen Varga
- Born
- 6 November 1879, Nagytétény (now part of Budapest), Hungary
- Died
- 7 October 1964, Moscow, Soviet Union
- Aliases
- Jenő Varga; Eugenio Varga (Italian printed signature); Eugene Samuilovich Varga; Yevgeni Varga
- Position in 1919–1920
- Economist; people’s commissar for finance and subsequently chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy in the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919); communist economic analyst in Soviet Russia from 1920
- Affiliations
- Hungarian Social Democratic Party (joined 1906); Hungarian Soviet Republic; Russian Communist Party (joined 1920); Communist International
- Council delegate
- unknown
- Bio
- Varga joined the Hungarian Social Democratic Party in 1906 and wrote on economics for its press. In the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 he served as finance commissar and then headed the Supreme Council of the National Economy. His June 1919 report, reproduced in L’Ordine Nuovo, examines workers’ control, technical management, bureaucracy and declining output. After the regime’s defeat he emigrated through Austria and settled in Soviet Russia in 1920, contributing economic analysis to the Communist International. He subsequently became a leading Soviet specialist on capitalist economies.
- Articles
- 1
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
- Brief records / quotations
- 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
- Other Notes
- The Hungarian Academy of Sciences gives 7 October 1964 as the death date; Munzinger gives 8 October. The Academy’s date is followed here. High economic office and participation in a councils congress do not by themselves establish a specific elected factory-council mandate.
L’Ordine Nuovo / Contributor
Eugen Varga
Sources
Biographical research checked 2026-10-09. Printed signatures and contribution details follow the indexed facsimiles and the catalog’s attribution notes. “unknown” means not securely established; advocacy of councils does not establish service as an elected delegate.