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  Karl Bernhardovich Radek
Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885 - 1939) was a international Communist leader.
But his influence decreased, he lost his place on the Central Committee in 1924 and was expelled from the party in 1927.
Radek was re-admitted to the party in 1930.
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  Karl Radek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Bernhardovich Radek (October 31, 1885 - May 19, 1939) was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader.
In 1920 Radek returned to Russia and joined Comintern but his influence decreased and he lost his place on the Central Committee in 1924, being expelled from the Party in 1927.
However, he was re-admitted in 1930 and helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purges of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed at the Trial of the Seventeen (1937, also called the Second Moscow Trial).
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 Karl Radek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Karl Radek, the son of Jewish parents, was born in Lvov, Galicia, in 1885.
Radek now became a loyal supporter of Joseph Stalin but in 1937 he was arrested and put on trial for treason.
Karl Radek was a sparkling writer, with an equal flair for synthesis and for sarcasm.
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 Engine of Mischief — www.greenwood.com
Radek's most abject opportunism is usually seen in his indiscriminate accusations at his trial of 1937.
Description: The enigmatic Karl Radek, a victim of the Moscow purge trials, was by turns a Pole, a Jew, a West European social democrat, a Soviet official, a Trotskyist, and a Stalinist.
Radek's six years in Germany were marked by his journalistic success and subsequent disgrace as well as his expulsion from the German and Polish social-democratic parties.
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 Karl Radek - Wikipedia
Radek erhielt bald die Erlaubnis, in der Haft zu arbeiten und legte sich dafür eine Bibliothek an, für die er eine weitere Gefängniszelle erhielt.
Radek und die KPD hofften, mit diesen Positionen die nationale Komponente ihrer Politik zu stärken.
In den 1920er Jahren gehörte Radek als Mitglied des Zentralkomitees der KPdSU zur Opposition um Trotzki, wurde 1927 aus der Partei ausgeschlossen und nach Sibirien verbannt.
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 Karl Bernhardovich Radek
Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885 - 1939) was a international Communist leader.
But his influence decreased, he lost his place on the Central Committee in 1924 and was expelled from the party in 1927.
Radek was re-admitted to the party in 1930.
www.fastload.org /ka/Karl_Bernhardovich_Radek.html   (160 words)

  
 Radek, Karl
Radek deltog i Trotskijs delegation til Brest-Litovsk forhandlingerne.
Efter monarkiets sammenbrud i Tyskland blev Radek sendt til Berlin for at hjælpe til ved organiseringen af det tyske kommunistparti.
Den egentlige årsag til Radeks politiske degradering var, at han tidligt havde sluttet sig til kredsen omkring Trotskij i opposition mod trojkaen Stalin, Sinovjev og Kamenev.
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 Karl Radek: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885 - 1939) was a Bolshevik (A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party) and an international Communist (A socialist who advocates communism) leader.
He was born in then L'viv (additional info and facts about L'viv), Poland (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II), as Karol Sobelsohn.
A member of the RSDLP (additional info and facts about RSDLP) (Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) since 1898, he participated in the 1905 revolution in Warsaw (The capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland).
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 Radek, Karl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Radek participated in the 1905 revolution in Warsaw as a member of the Social Democratic party of Poland and Lithuania.
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.
In the party purges of the 1930s he was accused of treason; he confessed (as did his codefendants) in the so-called Trial of the Seventeen (1937).
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 Karl Radek at AllExperts
Karl Berngardovich Radek (October 31, 1885 - May 19, 1939) was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader.
In 1920 Radek returned to Russia and joined Comintern but his influence decreased and he lost his place on the Central Committee in 1924, being expelled from the Party in 1927.
However, he was re-admitted in 1930 and helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purges of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed at the Trial of the Seventeen (1937, also called the Second Moscow Trial).
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 Karl Bernhardovich Radek Biography
Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885 - 1939) was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader.
He returned to Russia and joined Comintern but his influence decreased and he lost his place on the Central Committee in 1924 and was expelled from the party in 1927.
Radek was re-admitted to the party in 1930 and helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purges of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed at the Trial of the Seventeen (1937, also called the Second Moscow Trial).
www.biographybase.com /biography/Radek_Karl_Bernhardovich.html   (174 words)

  
 Karl Radek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
He to Russia and joined Comintern but his influence decreased and he his place on the Central Committee in 1924 and was expelled from party in 1927.
Radek was re-admitted to the party in 1930 and helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution but during the Great Purges of the 1930s he was accused of treason and at the Trial of the Seventeen (1937 also called the Second Moscow Trial).
It has been substantiated that both Radek and Sokolnikov were killed by fellow inmates in prison in 1939.
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 Karl Radek Summary
Karl Radek was born Karl Sobelsohn in Lvov (then in Austrian Poland) to an Austrophile Jewish family.
When Larissa died in 1926, Radek openly joined the Trotskyite opposition, with which he had long been identified; in 1927 he was expelled from the Bolshevik party and subsequently exiled to Siberia.
In 1936 Radek was one of the coauthors of the new Soviet constitution.
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It was at this time that she and Karl became associated in London with a group of Hungarians around Count Mihály Károlyi (who in 1918 had been President of the liberal first Republic of Hungary); these formed a potential administration ready to return to their country after the war.
Indeed, both Karl and Duczynska as well as their daughter Kari, had entertained thoughts of going to live in Hungary; Karl even received an invitation from the Péter Pázmán University (soon to be renamed) in Budapest.
Karl Polanyi was professor of economics at Columbia University.
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 Radek Karl: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
BIRDS EYE guest author Radek Sikorski is executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative at AEI, and former Polish deputy minister of defense.
RADEK, KARL karl ra dyik, 1885 1939?, international Communist...Poland); his original name was Sobelsohn.
Radek participated in the 1905 revolution in...died in a prison camp.
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 Communist History Network Newsletter No 18, Autumn 2005 | Reviews
One of the outstanding figures of the early Comintern, Radek personified its internationalism, and this not only in his critiques of war and imperialism and his expectations — admittedly more cautious than many — of the spread of the revolution.
Regarding Radek’s arrest in the purges, again Fayet presents a range of possible interpetations of Stalin’s motives that have been advanced, before offering his own view that it is unnecessary and perhaps inappropriate to seek such personalised forms of explanation.
Radek would surely be an ideal candidate for such a treatment, and even within Fayet’s more narrative account there might have been ways of doing more to incorporate such a perspective.
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 Karl Radek - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
Karl Radek und die deutsch-sowjetischen Beziehungen 1918 - 1923.
Karl Radek in der 'Russischen Korrespondenz' von Karl Radek (Sondereinband)
Karl Radek in der "Russischen Korrespondenz" : Politische Zeitschrift aus Sowjetrussland (1921-1922) von Karl Radek (Taschenbuch)
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 Karl Radek — Lviv Ukraine tourist guide
Karl Bernardovich Radek (Sobelsohn) born in L'viv in 1885 to an Austrophile Jewish family of postal official.
Radek returned to Poland in 1905 and participated in the 1905 revolution in Warsaw as a member of the Social Democratic party of Poland and Lithuania.
After a brief prison term, Radek spent the next decade building his reputation, in both Poland and Germany, as a talented but volatile and often irresponsible journalist.
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 Karl Joseph Simrock --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Known during his lifetime only to a small group of socialists and revolutionaries, Karl Marx wrote books now considered by Communists all over the world to be the source of absolute truth on matters of economics, philosophy, and politics.
The dramatist and novelist Karl Gutzkow was a pioneer of the modern social novel in Germany.
His distinctive contribution was a radical change in the direction of theology from a 19th-century orientation toward progress and from optimistic liberalism to an orthodoxy that had to cope with the grim realities of the 20th century, especially two world wars.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067883   (697 words)

  
 Martyrdom of Liebknecht and Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were among the founders of the Communist Party of Germany which held its constituent congress from 30th December, 1918 to January 1, 1919.
In connection with the publication of an article in one of the journals by its editor, one Bornstein, regarding the wrong sentence passed by Judge Hentz in 1919 in the case regarding the killing of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, a new trial was initiated in which Runge appeared as a witness.
For fraudulently passing the judgement in the case regarding the killing of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1919, Judge Hentz, supposedly, was dismissed from the post of the Chief Prosecutor of Germany after a trial in 1929.
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
It was at this time that she and Karl became associated in London with a group of Hungarians around Count Mihály Károlyi (who in 1918 had been President of the liberal first Republic of Hungary); these formed a potential administration ready to return to their country after the war.
Indeed, both Karl and Duczynska as well as their daughter Kari, had entertained thoughts of going to live in Hungary; Karl even received an invitation from the Péter Pázmán University (soon to be renamed) in Budapest.
Karl Polanyi was professor of economics at Columbia University.
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 Karl Radek -- Karl Radek, eigentlich Karl Sobelsohn (* 31. Oktober 1885 in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Karl Radek -- Karl Radek, eigentlich Karl Sobelsohn (* 31.
Er gehörte zu den führenden Linken in der polnischen und deutschen Sozialdemokratie.
In den 20-er Jahren gehörte Radek als Mitglied des Zentralkomitees der KPdSU zur Opposition um Trotzki, wurde aus der Partei ausgeschlossen und nach Sibirien verbannt.
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 Karl Radek - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Radek, Karl, 1885-1939?, international Communist leader and journalist, b.
He was a leading contributor (1906-17) to the social democratic press of central and Eastern Europe.
Radek community: violence et pacification symboliques dans l'art contestataire postsovietique.
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 Lying for the truth: Münzenberg & the Comintern by Stephen Koch
Radek was the new state’s propagandist and apologist, the creator of its intellectual rationale, the man who fabricated its “human face,” and much of its lie.
Radek and Münzenberg together escorted Lenin to the crowded platform in Zurich and the train into which the Bolsheviks were sealed (“like a bacillus in a tube,” Churchill said) for their trip north through Germany, en route to their revolution.
Radek was placed in the compartment beside the future dictator, while Münzenberg stayed behind, apparently because of a problem over his German nationality.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/12/nov93/koch.htm   (11668 words)

  
 Radek - AOL Music
He took the name "Radek" from a favourite character in a book (perhaps Syzyfowe prace by Stefan ?eromski).
Radek ?t?pánek (born November 27, 1978 in Karviná) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.
Download, listen and watch Radek music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Radek Karl Bernhardovich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Radek Karl Bernhardovich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Kamenev and Zinoviev were tried publicly along with 16 co-defendants in August 1936 in the first of a series of highly publicized show trials.
Landsteiner, Karl (1868-1943), Austrian-born American pathologist and Nobel laureate.
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