Karl Radek
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Karl Berngardovich Radek on the streets of Moscow
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Karol Sobelsohn October 31, 1885 Lemberg, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | May 19, 1939 (aged 53) Verkhneuralsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Moscow |
| Nationality | Austrian empire |
| Other names | Karl Berngardovich Radek |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Revolutionary, writer, journalist, publicist, politician, theorist |
| Years active | - 1939 |
| Organization | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Known for | Marxist revolutionary |
| Home town | Lviv |
| Political party | Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), Social Democratic Party of Germany(SPD), Communist Party of Germany (KPD), Comintern, Communist Workers' Party of Germany, Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Movement | Social democracy, communism, Bolshevik |
| Spouse(s) | Rosa Radek, Larisa Reisner |
| Children | Sofia Karlovna Radek |
Karl Berngardovich Radek (Russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек) (31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and an international Communist leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.
Radek was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv in Ukraine), as Karol Sobelsohn, to a Litvak family; his father, Bernhard, worked in the post office and died whilst Karl was young. He took the name Radek from a favourite character, Andrzej Radek, in Syzyfowe prace ('The Labor of Sisyphus', 1897) by Stefan Żeromski.
Radek joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) in 1904 and participated in the 1905 Revolution in Warsaw, where he had responsibility for the party's newspaper Czerwony Sztandar.
In 1907, 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. He re-located to Bremen, where he worked for Bremer Bürgerzeitung, in 1911, and was one of several who attacked Karl Kautsky's analysis of imperialism in Die Neue Zeit in May 1912.
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