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Karl Radek

1885 - 1939

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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 social democratic movements before World War I and a Communist International leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution. Radek was born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution in Congress Poland. Two years later he was forced to flee to Germany, where he worked as a journalist for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Radek is the 2,583rd most popular politician (down from 2,157th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 89th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Karl Radek was a communist activist and journalist who advocated for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist state. He was a member of the German Communist Party and the Communist International.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Karl Radek ranks 2,583 out of 19,576. Before him are Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Fumio Kishida, Childebert II, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Stamford Raffles. After him are Necmettin Erbakan, Polyxena, Daniel of Galicia, Aslan Maskhadov, Damdin Sükhbaatar, and Kaidu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Karl Radek ranks 34. Before him are Kato Svanidze, Sonia Delaunay, Yakov Sverdlov, George Minot, Sabina Spielrein, and Tomoyuki Yamashita. After him are Sinclair Lewis, Hermann Weyl, Alexander Löhr, Hugo Sperrle, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, and Erich von Stroheim. Among people deceased in 1939, Karl Radek ranks 16. Before him are Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, Philipp Scheidemann, Werner von Fritsch, Anton Makarenko, and Edward Sapir. After him are Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Douglas Fairbanks, James Naismith, Matthias Sindelar, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Antonio Machado.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Karl Radek ranks 93 out of 1,365. Before him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Lev Shestov (1866), Anacharsis (-700), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884). After him are Daniel of Galicia (1201), Clarice Lispector (1920), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), and John Demjanjuk (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Karl Radek ranks 34. Before him are Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884). After him are Daniel of Galicia (1201), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), and Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875).

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