RADEK, KARL

kärl räˈdyĭk, 1885–1939?, international Communist leader and journalist, b. Lviv (then in Austrian Poland); his original name was Sobelsohn. Radek participated in the 1905 revolution in Warsaw as a member of the Social Democratic party of Poland and Lithuania. He was a leading contributor (1906–17) to the social democratic press of central and Eastern Europe. During World War I he lived in Switzerland and was a staunch supporter of the Bolshevik proposal to turn the war into a revolutionary civil war. After the October Revolution in Russia (1917), Radek joined the Russian Communist party and participated in the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. In 1918 he was sent to Germany as a representative of the central committee of the Russian Communist party to help reorganize the German Communist movement. Jailed for a time in Berlin, he returned to Russia and became (1920) a leading official of the Comintern. 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. Expelled from the party (1927), he recanted and was readmitted (1930). A brilliant writer for the government newspaper Izvestia, Radek was also coauthor of the 1936 Stalin constitution. 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). He is believed to have died in a prison camp.

See W. Lerner, Karl Radek (1970); J. Tuck, Engine of Mischief (1988).

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The State and Revolution: Marxist Teaching on the State and the Task of the Proletariat in the Revolution
Book by V. Lenin; British Socialist Party, 1919
Subjects: Marx, Karl--1818-1883, Revolutions, Socialism, State, The
...against Kautsky as one of the representatives of the "Left Radical" group, which counted in its ranks Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Radek, and others, which, while upholding revolutionary tactics, was united in the conviction that Kautsky was passing...
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In Search of Democracy in Socialism: History and Party Consciousness
Book by Svetozar Stojanoviac, Gerson S. Sher; Prometheus Books, 1981
Subjects: Communism--History, Communist Parties--History, Democracy--History, Marx, Karl--1818-1883, Socialism--History
...1921 adopted NEP at the same time as it promulgated the ban on factions. The Kronstadt uprising also certainly contributed to the anxiety within the Bolsheviks ranks. Radek described the dilemma confronting the Party in the following way:
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Chinese Thought in a Global Context: A Dialogue between Chinese and Western Philosophical Approaches
Book by Karl-Heinz Pohl; Brill, 1999
Subjects: China--Civilization--Western Influences--Congresses, Civilization, Western--Chinese Influences--Congresses, East And West
...Qu Yuw1 lfl ? , 277 quan 11 weighing/rights, 252 qun fl$ crowd/good behaviour, 220 Rabelais, Franqois, 14 4 Radek, Karl, 339, 342 Ran You .J4 if , 136 Rationalization, 204, 227, 231- 233, self-rationalization 230 Rawls, John...
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Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Book by Walter Mckenzie Pintner, Don Karl Rowney; University of North Carolina Press, 1980
Subjects: Government Executives--Soviet Union--History, Soviet Union--Officials And Employees--History
...9. One Lenin had died; one was transferred to the Central Control Commission, which ruled out Central Committee membership, and one Karl Radek was dropped for his activities on behalf of Trotsky.
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Christianity and the Social Revolution
Book by John Lewis, Karl Polanyi, Donald K. Kitchin; C. Scribners, 1936
Subjects: Communism, Communism And Religion, Socialism, Christian
...revolutionary violence into a mysticism--and was one of the first to fall headlong for the even greater violence of the World War. Radek records how Dzerzhinski, in 1918, "gave an interview to the representatives of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois newspapers...
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Answering as Authoring: Or, Marxism's Joyce
Journal article by Peter Hitchcock; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects: Bakhtin, Mikhail--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Marxist criticism--Analysis
...1930s commentary, for instance, Karl Radek argued that for all that Joyce details...just offscreen in the approach of Radek and Lukacs are "dialectic" and...Harvester, 1982. 151-67. Radek, Karl. "Contemporary World Literature...
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Rosa Luxemburg's Political Heir: An Appreciation of Paul Levi
Journal article by David Fernbach; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1999
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...Knief, Wilhelm Pieck, and Karl Becker. Paul Levi lives...activities as a sideline. 12 Radek was a master of journalistic...12 Karl Radek, "The Levi Case", in...14 Cf. Warren Lerner, Karl Radek: The Last Internationalist...
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Nineteen-Thirties Japan: Fascism?
Journal article by Gavan McCormack; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 14, 1982
Subjects: Asia
...written by the Comintern authority, Karl Radek, who disputes their interpretation...fascist character of the movement. To Radek, the dominance of monopoly capitalists...by its more or less open forms," Radek concluded that that was what was happening...
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Under the Sign of the Pendulum: Childhood Experience as Determining Revolutionary Consciousness. Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978) (1)
Journal article by Kenneth Mcrobbie; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Autobiographies--Criticism and interpretation, Polanyi, Ilona Duczynska--Criticism and interpretation, Polanyi, Ilona Duczynska--Political activity, Polanyi, Ilona Duczynska--Works, Russian Revolution, 1917-1921--Influence, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Political activity, Women poets--Works
...the Austrian Prime Minister Count Karl Sturgkh, she planned to shoot his...Soviet Union, where she assisted Karl Radek with preparations for the Second World...in emigration. There Duczynska met Karl Polanyi; they married in 1923, and...
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A Collective Interior Monologue: Sergei Parajanov and Eisenstein's Joyce-Inspired Vision of Cinema
Journal article by Karla Oeler; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Eisenstein, Sergei--Criticism and interpretation, Eisenstein, Sergei--Works, Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers--Works, Motion pictures, Russian--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Works, Parajanov, Sergei--Criticism and interpretation, Parajanov, Sergei--Works, Russian movies--Criticism and interpretation
...notion of making a film adaptation of Karl Marxs Capital and dedicating the first...delivered his lecture two months after Karl Radek, at the All-Union Congress of Soviet...11) Eisenstein seems to answer Radek when he says, James Joyce took a...
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Rise Up, Return, Rebuild
Magazine article by Radek Sikorski; The American Enterprise, Vol. 14, June 2003
Subjects: Central Europe--Economic aspects, Central Europe--Political aspects, Postwar reconstruction--Economic aspects, Postwar reconstruction--Political aspects
Rise up, return, rebuild. by Radek Sikorski As I write this in early April...democratic society. BIRDS EYE guest author Radek Sikorski is executive director of the New...former Polish deputy minister of defense. Karl Zinsmeister will return to BIRDS EYE in...
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Dead Man on Furlough: Willi Munzenberg's Wars
Magazine article by Fraser Bell; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 111, Winter 2004
Subjects: Munzenberg, Willi
...ONE-TIME Thuringian shoemaker, friend of Lenin and Karl Radek; member of the Spartakist Bund, his was the most powerful...after all, was a contemporary of Bukharin and Zinoviev; Radek was his friend and protector. When the accused were put...
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An Interview with Budd Schulberg
Magazine article by Jack Newfield; Tikkun, Vol. 15, May/Jun 2000
Subjects: Literature, Schulberg, Budd
...fascism was growing and growing. Our Bible was not exactly Karl Marx, it was, like, John Stracheys The Coming Struggle...there were the Moscow trials. We worried about whether Karl Radek, the outstanding Soviet writer/journalist, really was...
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The 'Casanova of Causes'
Magazine article by John Leonard; The Nation, Vol. 270, April 10, 2000
Subjects: Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Books--Criticism and interpretation
...are reacquainted with exactly what it felt like to read Karl May and Jules Verne, listen to Lehar operettas and wait...Pole from a graf zeppelin; to hobnob with Wilhelm Reich, Karl Radek, Andre Malraux, Alfred Doblin, Ignazio Silone, George...
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Love in a Cold War Climate
Magazine article by Peter Day; The National Interest, Summer 1995
Subjects: Kuusinen, Aino--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Perestroika--Bibliography
...condemnations of the old Bolsheviks to order by keeping up card files on their ideological "heresies." One of the doomed, Karl Radek, called Otto Kuusinen "Stalins noosegreaser." For all his servility, Kuusinen possessed the spin doctors typical...
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Saving the World at the Box Office
Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, July 29, 1997
...Union has fragmented. The coups leader is one Radek (a curious choice of name since Karl Radek was one of the principal Soviet Politburo members...the Moscow Trials of the 1930s). The movies Radek is a Russian nationalist seeking to overthrow...
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Why Did Ransome Swallow All This? BOOK OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 21, 2009
Subjects: Books
...kitten taken away again. Ransomes bottom, like that of Karl Marx, was a sore point. He was tormented by piles, so...interviews, and Lenins clever, puckish propaganda chief Karl Radek became a bosom pal. In return, he gushed about the glories...
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Arthur Ransome - the Gentleman Spy with Two Masters
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 17, 2009
Subjects: Ransome, Arthur
...newspaper correspondent in Russia during the First World War. He became enthralled to Bolshevism, shared a flat with Karl Radek, the Bolshevik chief of propaganda, and was a big chum of Lenin. Thus, the man who later promoted the uncomplicated...
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Football: RICK'S BACK ON THE BOOS; LATE NIGHT ACTION... Cheers to Jeers as Ex-Ger Crocks Burke
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 24, 2006
...Indeed, a back four of Charlie Adam, Karl Svensson, Brahim Hemdani and Hutton hinted...term resurfaced. They failed to deal with Radek Sirls free-kick from near the corner...the Rangers rearguard and, after leaving Karl Svensson for dead, crashed a crisp low...
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RICK'S BACK ON THE BOOS; Cheers to Jeers as Ex-Ger Crocks Burke LATE NIGHT ACTION
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 24, 2006
...Indeed, a back four of Charlie Adam, Karl Svensson, Brahim Hemdani and Hutton hinted...term resurfaced. They failed to deal with Radek Sirls free-kick from near the corner...the Rangers rearguard and, after leaving Karl Svensson for dead, crashed a crisp low...
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encyclopedia articles on: Radek Karl  - 2 results

 
 
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Radek, Karl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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. See W. Lerner, Karl Radek (1970); J. Tuck, Engine of Mischief...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the many thousand victims of the purges were such prominent CPSU leaders as Grigori E. Zinoviev , Lev B. Kamenev , Karl Radek , Nikolai Bukharin , and Aleksey I. Rykov and military figures like Marshal Mikhail N. Tukhachevsky . Independent influence...


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