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Bookmark or Share- Radek: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration - FamilyEducationFamily name origins & meanings. Polish and Czech : from the personal name Radek, a pet form of any of various Slavic personal names formed with rad- ‘glad’ as the first element. The most common such names are Radoslav (Polish Radosław ), in which the second element means ‘glory’, and Radomir, in which the second element means ‘peace’.
- Karl Radek Internet ArchiveBiography. Member of the R.S.D.L.P. since its beginning, where he was active in Galicia, Russian Poland and Germany. Took an anti-war stand during WWI. Became a Bolshevik in 1917. In 1923 a member of the Left Opposition; expelled from the party in 1927 as a result. Radek re-entered the party in 1930, but was again expelled in 1936.
- Karl Radek - WikipediaKarl 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.
- Karl Radek | Soviet Politician & Revolutionary | BritannicaKarl Radek (born 1885, Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]—died 1939?) was a communist propagandist and early leader of the Communist International who fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge of the 1930s.
- YIVO | Radek, KarlTranslation. (1885–1939), international revolutionary activist and publicist. Born in Lwów, Karl Radek (originally surnamed Sobel’son) grew up in Tarnów, in his mother’s family, where the German culture was dominant. In gymnasium he was attracted by the ideas of Polish nationalism, which influenced his choice of pseudonym.
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