Christian Rakovsky
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Christian Georgiyevich Rakovsky was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat and statesman; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist. Rakovsky's political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian citizen.
Front page of Jos Despotizmul!.. ("Down with Despotism!!!"), a special issue of România Muncitoare, entirely dedicated to criticism of the Imperial Russian authorities (February 1905)
From left: Rakovsky, Leon Trotsky, and Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, during a meeting in Bucharest (1913 drawing)
Advertising, Parliamentary elections, 1916
Karl Radek
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Karl Berngardovich Radek 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 in 1919
Karl Radek (3rd from the left) at the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern, Moscow, 1920.
Karl Radek (holding Aleksandr Voronsky's daughter) among the writers of Krasnaya Nov