1885 - 1939
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Radek has received more than 632,150 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Radek is the 2,222nd most popular politician (down from 2,036th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 69th in 2019) and the 30th 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, Karl Radek ranks 2,222 out of 15,577. Before him are Stefan Milutin, Gannicus, Nadab of Israel, Antiochus II Theos, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, and Abd al-Karim Qasim. After him are Palmiro Togliatti, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Diaochan, Albert III, Duke of Austria, Alexander, and Theodora Porphyrogenita.
1253 - 1321
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 2,216
150 BC - 71 BC
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 2,217
1000 BC - 960 BC
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,218
286 BC - 246 BC
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,219
1917 - 1992
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,220
1914 - 1963
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,221
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,222
1893 - 1964
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,223
1165 - 1218
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,224
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,225
1349 - 1395
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 2,226
870 - 913
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 2,227
984 - 1056
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 2,228
Among people born in 1885, Karl Radek ranks 27. Before him are Mikhail Frunze, George de Hevesy, Ernst Bloch, Yakov Sverdlov, Heinrich Brüning, and Sonia Delaunay. After him are Sabina Spielrein, Erich von Stroheim, Luigi Russolo, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Hermann Weyl, and George Minot. Among people deceased in 1939, Karl Radek ranks 14. Before him are W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, Anton Makarenko, and Philipp Scheidemann. After him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Matthias Sindelar, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Antonio Machado, Alexander Yegorov, and Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria.
1885 - 1925
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 21
1885 - 1966
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 22
1885 - 1977
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 23
1885 - 1919
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 24
1885 - 1970
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 25
1885 - 1979
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 26
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 27
1885 - 1942
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 28
1885 - 1957
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 29
1885 - 1947
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 30
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 31
1885 - 1955
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 32
1885 - 1950
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 33
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 8
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 9
1880 - 1939
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 10
1884 - 1939
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 11
1888 - 1939
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 12
1865 - 1939
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 13
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 14
1848 - 1939
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 15
1903 - 1939
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 16
1857 - 1939
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 17
1875 - 1939
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 18
1883 - 1939
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 19
1866 - 1939
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 20
Among people born in Ukraine, Karl Radek ranks 78 out of 1,083. Before him are Fanny Kaplan (1890), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Ivan Franko (1856), Georges Charpak (1924), and Yaropolk I of Kiev (955). After him are Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Anacharsis (-700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), and Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880).
1890 - 1918
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 72
1700 - 1760
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 73
1978 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 74
1856 - 1916
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 75
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 76
955 - 980
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 77
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 78
1932 - 1994
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 79
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 80
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 81
1963 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 82
1886 - 1941
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 83
1880 - 1940
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 84
Among politicians born in Ukraine, Karl Radek ranks 30. Before him are Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Moshe Sharett (1894), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), and Yaropolk I of Kiev (955). After him are Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), and Boris Shcherbina (1919).
1883 - 1954
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1201 - 1264
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 26
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 27
1978 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 28
955 - 980
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 29
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 30
1932 - 1994
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 31
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 32
1963 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 33
1886 - 1941
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 34
1929 - 2015
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 35
1919 - 1990
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 36