Karl Radek

Karl Radek

Karl Bernhardovic Radek (Russian: Карл Бернга́рдович Ра́дек) (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 after the Russian Revolution.

Read more about Karl Radek:  Early Life, Germany and 'The Radek Affair', World War I and The Russian Revolution, Comintern and The German Revolution, Into Opposition, Capitulation To Stalin and Show Trials

Famous quotes containing the word karl:

    “a big picture of K. Marx with an axe,
    “Where I cut off one it will never grow again.”
    O Karl would it were true
    I’d put my saw to work for you
    & the wicked social tree would fall right down.”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)