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(Budapest, December 26, 1927– ) is a Hungarian sociologist and political essayist. He is a student of Raymond Aron.
Kende was born to Zsigmond and Margit Hajdu. He studied at the Pázmány Péter University between 1946 and 1948, and then worked as the foreign policy editor of Szabad Nép between 1949 and 1954. After his dismissal, his writings were published in Délmagyarország in 1955.
In 1956, he participated in the uprising as a journalist , then left Hungary . He settled in France , where he worked as a social scientist for nearly 40 years, primarily as a researcher of the Soviet bloc. Between 1959 and 1964 , he was the chief researcher at the Imre Nagy Institute in Brussels . Between 1962 and 1988, he was a columnist for the Irodalmi Újság in Paris.
He taught at the University of Paris-X in Nanterre (1970–1974), the University of Aix-Marseille III (1975–1978) and the Paris School of Social Sciences (1979–1991), among others; he contributed to the work of several French journals, including Esprit, Contrepoint, La Nouvelle Alternative and Commentaire. In 1993, he retired as research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. In the same year, he was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 1989, he was one of the founders of the 1956 Institute in Budapest, and since 1994, he has been the chairman of the Institute's board of trustees. He is the chairman of the editorial board of the Political Science Review.