Karl Radek

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Karl Radek.

Karl Berngardovich Radek (31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939), born Karol Sobelsohn in Lemberg, Galicia (Ukraine), was a prominent Jewish Communist active firstly in Germany, then the Russia, subsequently the Soviet Union. A member of the 'Left-communist' grouping of the Bolsheviks, in 1918 he was co-editor, with Uritsky, of the journal Kommunist. Later, he was one those accused during Stalin's Great Purge and the Moscow Trials and died in a Gulag or labour camp.