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Karl Berngardovich Radek (Russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a revolutionary and writer active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and a Communist International leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.
Karl Radek was a communist propagandist and early leader of the Communist International who fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge of the 1930s. A member of a Galician Jewish family, Radek attended the universities of Kraków and Bern.
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Internet Archive. (1885–1939) Biography. Member of the R.S.D.L.P. since its beginning, where he was active in Galicia, Russian Poland and Germany. Took an anti-war stand during WWI. Became a Bolshevik in 1917. In 1923 a member of the Left Opposition; expelled from the party in 1927 as a result.
Karl Radek war ein Journalist und Politiker, der in Polen, Deutschland und der Sowjetunion wirkte.
Dec 24, 2014 · Karl Radek was a unique character in the history of the Communist movement, and is a key figure for anyone wishing to study the first years of the Communist International.
Dec 31, 2023 · Who was Karl Radek? At one point in this epic work of historical fiction, Radek refers to himself as belonging to “the second rank” of Bolshevik revolutionaries, but that is far from the truth.
Karl Berngardovich Radek was a revolutionary and writer active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and a Communist International leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.
