David Petrovsky was a Ukrainian Jewish revolutionary politician, economist, journalist, general of the Red Army, and Soviet statesman. He was an active member of the General Jewish Labour Bund in the
Petrovsky in 1924
Leadership of the Jewish Socialist Federation in 1917. Seated (L-R): Ben-Tsien Hofman (Tsivion), Max Goldfarb, Morris Winchevsky, A. Litvak, Hannah Salutsky, Moishe Terman. Standing: Shauchno Epstein, Frank Rozenblat, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Moissaye Olgin, Jacob Salutsky (J.B.S. Hardman).
Petrovsky (Max Goldfarb, first from left) at the Stockholm International Socialist Congress, 1917
Petrovsky at the meeting of the chief commanders of the Red Army in Moscow, 1922. 1st row standing: 7th Boris Shaposhnikov. 1st row sitting (from left to right): 1st D.P. Oskin, 2nd August Kork, 3rd N.N. Petin, 4th Alexander Yegorov (soldier), 5th Mikhail Frunze, 6th Sergey Kamenev, 7th Kliment Voroshilov, 8th Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev, 9th A.A. Iordanskiy, 10th Iona Yakir, 11th David Petrovsky, 12th Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Rose Cohen was an English feminist, suffragist, and founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. She worked for Communist International from 1920 to 1929. Between 1931 and 1937, Co
David Petrovsky
…France, and the United States. Petrovsky came to England under the name of Bennett, and everyone - even the British Communists and his future wife Rose Cohen considered him American - a Yankee from the East Coast of the United States. He managed to avoid the British police for five years - a remarkable feat…
Cohen and her son Alyosha (on right). London, 1932
David Petrovsky (a prison photo), 1937