Tibor Szamuely

Who was Tibor Szamuely?

Tibor Szamuely was a Hungarian-born historian and polemicist. He left Hungary in 1963 and taught at the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Economic and Political Sciences in Winneba, Ghana. In 1964, he settled in Britain with his family.

During his time in England, he taught at the University of Reading and contributed frequently to The Spectator, Encounter, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He was a close friend of Robert Conquest and Kingsley Amis and was a regular attendee of the lunches at Bertorelli restaurant. He is the author of The Russian Tradition.

He was the nephew of Tibor Szamuely, who had a major share in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, and is the father of George Szamuely, a paleoconservative journalist.