Died 1939-05-19.
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Karl Radek
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.
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culture · Polish revolutionary (1885–1939) · politician · university teacher · journalist · revolutionary · political prisoner · communist · also Karl Radek, Karl Berngardovich Radek, Radek
Born 31 October 1885 · Died 19 May 1939 · Q84266
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1939· 1 entry
1937· 1 entry
And sentenced to 10 years of penal labour
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1936· 1 entry
Congratulated General Ernst Köstring on the day Germany occupied the Rhineland, along with Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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1934· 2 entries
Was interviewed by a German politician, at which both of them deplored the hostile drift of their respective governments, and Radek made a controversial remark: "There are some fine lads in the SA and SS
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“The Birth of the First International”
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1931· 1 entry
“Capitalist Slavery vs. Socialist Organisation of Labour”
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1930· 1 entry
And was one of the few former oppositionists to retain a prominent place within the party, heading the International Information Bureau of the Russian Communist Party Central Committee as well as giving the address on fo
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1927· 1 entry
After helping to organise an independent demonstration on the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution with Grigory Zinoviev in Leningrad
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1924· 1 entry
“Through Germany in the Sealed Coach”
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1923· 1 entry
“Leon Trotsky, Organizer of Victory”
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1922· 2 entries
Radek sent Henk Sneevliet to China to advocate for what later became the First United Front
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“Foundation of the Two and a Half International”
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1921· 2 entries
“Is the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution?”
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“Bertrand Russell’s Sentimental Journey”
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1920· 2 entries
“The Polish Question and the International”
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“The Labour Movement, Shop Committees and the Third International”
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1919· 1 entry
“Karl Liebknecht – At the Martyr’s Graveside”
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1918· 1 entry
“The Development of Socialism from Science to Action”
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1917· 1 entry
Radek was one of the passengers on the sealed train that carried Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries through Germany after the February Revolution in Russia
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1914· 1 entry
“Marxism and the Problems of War”
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1912· 1 entry
August Thalheimer invited Radek to go to Göppingen (near Stuttgart) to temporarily replace him in control of the local SPD party newspaper Freie Volkszeitung, which had financial difficulties
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1911· 1 entry
And was one of several who attacked Karl Kautsky's analysis of imperialism in Die Neue Zeit in May 1912
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1909· 1 entry
“The Unity of the Working Class”
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1907· 1 entry
After his arrest in Poland and his escape from custody, Radek moved to Leipzig in Germany and joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), working on the Party's Leipziger Volkszeitung
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-10-31.
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