Original sentence: After the Hungarian Soviet Republic was defeated, Lukács fled from Hungary to Vienna.As a literary critic György Lukács was especially influential, because of his theoretical developments of realism and of the novel as a literary genre.During the the Hungarian Soviet Republic Lukács was a commissar of the Fifth Division of the Hungarian Red Army, in which capacity he ordered the execution of eight persons in Poroszlo, in May 1919, after the Fifth Division were bested in battle.György Lukács (; ) (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian philosopher, æsthetician, literary historan, critic, and Marxist.He was the founder of Western Marxism, the interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideologic orthodoxy of the USSR; as such, he developed the theory of  reification, and contributed to theory with developments of the theory of class consciousness initially developed by Karl Marx.In 1919, he was the Hungarian Minister of Culture of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March–August 1919).This article is about the philosopher; for the politician, who was Minister of Education, see György Lukács (politician)
Edited sentence: After the Soviet Republic was defeated, Lukács fled from Hungary to Vienna.During the period of the Hungarian Soviet Republic Lukács was a major party worker and a political commissar of the Fifth Division of the Hungarian Red Army.For the politician, who also served as Minister of Education, see György Lukács (politician).György Lukács (; ; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic.He contributed the concept of reification to Marxist philosophy and theory and expanded Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness.He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism.He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.In this capacity he ordered the execution of eight persons in Poroszlo in May 1919, after his division was worsted.Lukács was also an influential literary critic, especially in theories of realism and the novel as a literary genre.This article is about the philosopher