Karl Radek

Karl Radek Bernhardovich

(1885 - 1939) - Communist propagandist and early leader of the Communist International (Comintern). The failure of the Comintern to effect a Communist takeover in Germany contributed to the decline of Radek's influence, and in 1924 he lost his seat on the central committee of the Communist party. Expelled from the party in 1927, he was readmitted in 1929. A brilliant writer for the government newspaper Izvestia, he was also appointed to the commission that prepared the 1936 Soviet constitution. In January 1937, at the second show trial of the Great Purge, he confessed his guilt to the fabricated charge and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. There is strong evidence to suggest that he died in 1939 in a prison.

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Books
Portraits & Pamphlets (Essay Index) by Karl Radek
Karl Radek : The Last Internationalist by Warren Lerner
Engine of Mischief Biography of Karl Radek by Jim Tuck
Karl Radek in Deutschland : Revolutionar, Intrigant, Diplomat by Karl Radek
Auf zum letzten Verhuor : Erkenntnisse d. verantwortl. Hofnarren d. Revolution Karl Radek by Joachim Steffen

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