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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. 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

Among politicians, Karl Radek ranks 2,222 out of 15,577Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Karl Radek ranks 27Before 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 14Before 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.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Karl Radek ranks 78 out of 1,083Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Karl Radek ranks 30Before 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).