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Biography of Karl Bernardovich Radek
Name: Karl Bernardovich Radek
Birth Date: 1885
Death Date: 1939
Place of Birth: Lvov, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Gender: Male
Occupations: political leader
Karl Bernardovich Radek
The Russian Communist leader and publicist Karl Bernardovich Radek (1885-1939) is best known for his brilliant and acerbic polemics. He was an outstanding apostle of internationalism.Karl Radek was born Karl Sobelsohn in Lvov (then in Austrian Poland) to an Austrophile Jewish family. As a youth, he rejected his family's outlook and became involved in political agitation, moving to Switzerland in 1904. There he joined the left wing of Polish socialism, returning to Poland in 1905 to participate in revolutionary activity in Warsaw. After a brief prison term, Radek spent the next decade building his reputation, in both Poland and Germany, as a talented but volatile and often irresponsible journalist. His barbed comments so irritated leading Socialists that he was successively expelled from the Polish and German Socialist parties.During World War I Radek returned to Switzerland, where he alternately collaborated with and contended with V. I. Lenin in the Zimmerwald Movement, an …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…withdrew from party politics, and in 1925 he became rector of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. When Larissa died in 1926, Radek openly joined the Trotskyite opposition, with which he had long been identified; in 1927 he was expelled from the Bolshevik party and subsequently exiled to Siberia. In 1929 Radek renounced Trotsky and returned to Moscow to become once again a major publicist--for Stalin--although he never recovered his Comintern or party posts.In 1936 Radek was one of the coauthors of the new Soviet constitution. However, later that year he was arrested for treason, and in a show trial in January 1937 Radek was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. Though rumors of his survival persisted, Radek apparently died in prison sometime in 1939. Associated Organizations Further Reading The only biography of Radek is Warren Lerner, Karl Radek: The Last Internationalist (1970).Tuck, Jim, Engine of mischief: an analytical biography of Karl Radek, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
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