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    Karl Berngardovich Radek (Russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a revolutionary and writer active in the Polish and German...
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  • politician Radek Smoleňák, Czech ice hockey player Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player Radek Zelenka, character in Stargate:Atlantis Karl Radek (1885–1939)...
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    debunk the emerging mythology of Schlageter by circulating a speech by Karl Radek portraying him as an honourable but misguided figure. It was the Nazi...
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    Hamburg at the Barricades. During her stay in Germany she had become Karl Radek's lover. On her return to Russia she and Raskolnikov divorced in January...
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  • such as Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Karl Radek, Georgy Pyatakov, etc. Verdicts of Moscow trials were pre-defined by Joseph...
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    Vladimir Lenin was initially hostile to Rakovsky, and at one point wrote to Karl Radek that "we [the Bolsheviks] do not have the same road as his kind of people"...
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    medical grounds in 1916, settling in Switzerland and associating with Karl Radek, Grigory Zinoviev and Vladimir Lenin, becoming a part of the bureau of...
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    November 6, 1918, for their active support of the German Revolution. Karl Radek also illegally supported communist subversive activities in Weimar Germany...
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  • Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Nikolai Bukharin, and Karl Radek, though the latter two had less active input. The 1936 Constitution enumerated...
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  • 30 January 1937.: 113  This trial involved 17 lesser figures including Karl Radek, Yuri Pyatakov, Grigory Sokolnikov, and Leonid Serebryakov. Alexander...
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    repugnant. In September 1918 she called the threats made by Lenin's friend Karl Radek to "slaughter the bourgeoisie" after an attempted assassination of Lenin...
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    Communist Party heavyweights Nikolai Bukharin, Lazar Kaganovich, and Karl Radek, Soviet Marshals Aleksandr Yegorov, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Semyon Budyonny...
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  • replies, "Because I criticized Karl Radek." The first man responds, "But I am here because I spoke out in favor of Radek!" They turn to the third man who...
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  • Opposition, the author of The New Economics. Georgy Pyatakov (1890–1937). Karl Radek (1885–1939). Christian Rakovsky (1873–1941). Timofei Sapronov (1887–1937)...
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    an armed struggle. Rosa Luxemburg and other KPD leaders (Leo Jogiches, Karl Radek) thought a revolt at that time to be premature and spoke out against it...
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    Karl Radek and suggested a policy to him that they were already calling 'National Bolshevism' (although it has also been suggested that it was Radek who...
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    Trotsky a standing ovation. This upset the troika, already infuriated by Karl Radek's article, "Leon Trotsky – Organiser of Victory" published in Pravda on...
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    debasement, Pilnyak acted courageously in secret. When he heard that Karl Radek, a prominent member of the left wing opposition, was living in hardship...
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    lesser figures known as the "anti-Soviet Trotskyite-centre" which included Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov, and were accused of plotting with...
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    Prosecutor General Andrey Vyshinsky (centre) reading the 1937 indictment against Karl Radek during the 2nd Moscow trial...
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    within days of the March on Rome by Benito Mussolini and his PNF in Italy. Karl Radek lamented the proceedings in Italy as the "largest defeat suffered by socialism...
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    from the Russian Communist Party (RCP), including: Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek, Mikhail Pavlovich, and Anatoly Skachko. Non-RCP delegates delivering...
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    leaders Friedrich Ebert Paul von Hindenburg Rosa Luxemburg † Paul Levi Karl Radek Ernst Thälmann Kurt Eisner † Ernst Toller Gustav Landauer † Eugen Leviné †...
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  • as Alexander Kerensky John J. Hooker as Senator Overman Jan Tříska as Karl Radek R. G. Armstrong as Government Agent Beatty came across the story of John...
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    1905. Sentenced to death by a secret tribunal and shot the same day. Karl Radek 1885 1939 Sentenced to 10 years at the Trial of the Seventeen in 1937...
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  • Kollontai, Valerian Osinsky, Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Karl Radek, and Vladimir Smirnov. Their support was strong in the party's Moscow...
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  • with the command of an armored train that conveyed Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek, Béla Kun, and John Reed from the Second Congress of the Communist International...
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  • policy. During the mid-1920s the party began recruiting Arab members. Karl Radek, as head of the Comintern's Eastern department, instructed the PCP that...
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    Moscow, with chances to comment on Chinese affairs. With Mif succeeding Karl Radek as president, his protégés, among them Bo Gu, were sent back to take charge...
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  • later regretted Georgy Pyatakov, Bolshevik revolutionary, Trotskyist Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik politician Vladimir...
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