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Karl Radek, born Karol Sobelsohn in 1885 in Lviv, was a politician, university teacher, journalist, and revolutionary. He held citizenship in Austria–Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union. A member of the Lithuanian Jews ethnic group, he spoke Yiddish, Polish, German, and Russian. He was educated at the Jagiellonian University and worked for the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University and the Communist International.
Radek was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. He served on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and participated in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Spartacist uprising. He took part in the 7th, 10th, 12th, and 17th Congresses of the Russian Communist Party and the All-Union Communist Party. His partner was Larisa Reisner.
He died by homicide in 1939 in Verkhneuralsk, Nerchinsk, after being detained at the Lubyanka Building. Radek authored 95 works, including *Il processo antitrotskista del 1937*, *L'evoluzione del socialism dalla scienza all' azione*, *Podgotovka borʹby za novyĭ peredel mira*, *Portraits and pamphlets*, and *Unser Weg wider den Putschismus*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1939
- Works
- 95
Top works
- Glazami inostratsev, 1917-1932
- Il processo antitrotskista del 1937
- L'evoluzione del socialism dalla scienza all' azione
- Podgotovka borʹby za novyĭ peredel mira
- Portraits and pamphlets
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Key facts
- Commissar
- Leon Trotsky , Georgy Chicherin
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Born
- Karol Sobelsohn , ( 1885-10-31 ) 31 October 1885, Lemberg , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 19 May 1939 (1939-05-19) (aged 53), Verkhneuralsk , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire , Soviet Union
- Party
- SDKPiL (1904–1907) , SPD (1907–1912) , RCP(b) (1917–1927, 1930–1937)
- Other political affiliations
- KPD (1919–1923) , Left Opposition (1923–1928)
- Spouses
- Rosa Mavrikievna Radek, Larissa Mikhailovna Reissner
- Children
- Sofia Karlovna Radek
- Alma mater
- Jagiellonian University
- Occupation
- Revolutionary writer journalist publicist politician theorist
- Known for
- Marxist revolutionary activism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Lviv
- Place of death
- Nerchinsk
- Spouse
- Larisa Reisner
- Occupation
- political prisoner
- Educated at
- Jagiellonian University
- Employer
- Communist International
- Political party
- Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party
- Field of work
- revolution
- Conflict
- Russian Revolution of 1905
- Image
- Радек.JPG
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- Karl Radek
- date of birth
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- date of death
- 1939-00-00
- manner of death
- homicide
- name in native language
- Karl Radek
- birth name
- Karol Sobelsohn
- ethnic group
- Lithuanian Jews
- place of detention
- Lubyanka Building
- unmarried partner
- Larisa Reisner
- start of work period
- 1904-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Berngardovich Radek (Russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; Polish: Karol Radek; 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.
Radek was born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution in Congress Poland. Two years later he was forced to flee to Germany, where he worked as a journalist for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. After the outbreak of World War I, Radek relocated to Switzerland and became an associate of Vladimir Lenin. Following the February Revolution, Radek helped organize the return of Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries to Russia, though he himself was denied entry until after the October Revolution. As Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he took part in the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. He helped establish the Communist Party of Germany after the revolution began, and spent a year in prison for his role in the Spartacist uprising.
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