Marxist Writers: Karl Radek


Karl Radek
Internet Archive

(1885–1939)


Karl Radek

Biography

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 entered the party again in 1930, but was again expelled in 1936. Tried in the Second Moscow Trial, and died while in prison. Serge had written of Radek: “A sparkling writer ... thin, rather small, nervous, full of anecdotes which often had a savage side to them ... just like an old-time pirate.”

 

Works:

March 1909

The Unity of the Working Class

1914

Marxism and the Problems of War

5 May 1916

The End of a Song

1918

The Development of Socialism from Science to Action

September 1918

Preface to Arthur Ransomes’s A Letter to America

18 January 1919

Karl Liebknecht – At the Martyr’s Graveside

6 November 1919

Anti-Parliamentarism

1920

Dictatorship and Terrorism (book)

June–July 1920

The Labour Movement, Shop Committees and the Third International

June–July 1920

The Polish Question and the International

July 1920

England and the East

October 1920

Bertrand Russell’s Sentimental Journey

1921

Is the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution? (pamphlet)

May 1921

The Downfall of Levi

3 August 1921

On the Trade Unions, at Second Congress of the Communist International;
>Replying to the Discussion

October 1921

Outlines of World Politics

1922

The Paths of the Russian Revolution

1922

Foundation of the Two and a Half International

1922

Eve of Fusion of the Second and Two-and-a-Half International

1922

From the Hague to Essen

October 1922

The Greek Revolution

October 1922

The Winding-Up of the Versailles Treaty, Report to the IV. Congress of the Comintern

1923

Leon Trotsky, Organizer of Victory

1923

Ruhr and Hamburg

May 1923

Lenin

June 1923

The International Outlook

June 1923

Leo Schlageter: The Wanderer into the Void (“The Schlageter Speech”)

July 1923

Fascism and Communism

1924

Through Germany in the Sealed Coach

October 1926

November: A Page of Recollections

December 1926

A Letter to Klara Zetkin

1927

Larisa Reisner

October 1928

Appeal for Trotsky

1931

Capitalist Slavery vs. Socialist Organisation of Labour

January 1931

Greetings to Romain Rolland

1934

The Birth of the First International

1934

Fifteen Years of the Communist International (pamphlet)

August 1934

Contemporary World Literature and the Tasks of Proletarian Art (Speech at the Soviet Writers Congress)

1935

Felix Dzerzhinski




 

Last updated: 20.8.2012