1885 - 1939
Karl Berngardovich Radek (Russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Radek has received more than 522,140 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Radek is the 2,251st most popular politician (down from 2,037th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 69th in 2019) and the 31st 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 2,251 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: 2,245
150 BC - 71 BC
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 2,246
1000 BC - 960 BC
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,247
286 BC - 246 BC
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,248
1917 - 1992
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,249
1914 - 1963
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,250
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,251
1893 - 1964
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,252
1165 - 1218
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,253
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 2,254
1349 - 1395
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 2,255
870 - 913
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 2,256
984 - 1056
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 2,257
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 31. Before him are Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Moshe Sharett (1894), Fanny Kaplan (1890), 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).
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1201 - 1264
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 26
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 27
1890 - 1918
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 28
1978 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 29
955 - 980
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 30
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 31
1932 - 1994
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 32
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 33
1963 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 34
1886 - 1941
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 35
1929 - 2015
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 36
1919 - 1990
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 37