- Name
- Karl Radek
- Born
- 31 October 1885, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine), following Store norske leksikon
- Died
- 19 May 1939, Verkhneuralsk, Soviet Union
- Aliases
- Karl Sobelsohn; Radek; RADEK. (printed signature)
- Position in 1919–1920
- Bolshevik revolutionary and publicist; imprisoned in Germany in 1919; subsequently a Comintern leader concerned with German affairs
- Affiliations
- Polish SDKPiL and German SPD earlier; Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks); Communist International
- Council delegate
- unknown
- Bio
- Radek worked in Polish and German socialism before collaborating with Lenin in Switzerland during the First World War. After the Russian Revolution he participated in Soviet diplomacy and the Brest-Litovsk negotiations. He went to Germany in late 1918 and was arrested after the Spartacist uprising. On returning to Russia he became a Comintern leader and later supported the Left Opposition.
- Articles
- 2
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
- Brief records / quotations
- 2 · Separate from the Articles count.
- Other Notes
- Murdered in imprisonment in 1939; rehabilitated in 1988. No factory council mandate established. The quotation in I.28 does not identify its source work or translator.
L’Ordine Nuovo / Contributor
Karl Radek
Sources
Biographical research checked 2026-10-16. Printed signatures and contribution details follow the indexed facsimiles and the catalog’s attribution notes. “unknown” means not securely established; advocacy of councils does not establish service as an elected delegate.