biography
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Radek, Karl Bernhardovich
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originally Karl Sobelsohn
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pronunciation:
[rahdek]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1885–?1939)
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| biography:
| Russian revolutionary and politician, born in Lvov (Lwow), W Ukraine (formerly Austria). He studied at Kraków and Bern, and became a journalist. He organized the German Communists during their revolution (1918), and was imprisoned (1919). Returning to the Soviet Union, he became a leading member of the Communist International, but lost standing with his growing distrust of extremist tactics. He was charged as a Trotsky supporter, and expelled from the Party (1927–30). In 1937 he was a victim of one of Stalin's show trials. |
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