Solomon Lozovsky
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Solomon Lozovsky (Russian: , 1878-1952) was a Russian Jewish revolutionary, a colleague of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and a prominent official in the Soviet government and Soviet trade unions and the head of Soviet Information Bureau. He was also the chair of the department of International Relations at the Higher Party School. Born in 1878 in the Ukraine, he was a member of the Bolshevik ( later Communist) party since 1901.
General Secretary of the Profintern (1921-1937). In 1939 Lozovsky was one of the three deputy foreign ministers of the Soviet Union under Vyacheslav Molotov, who replaced Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov. He was arrested (at the age of seventy) and mercilessly tortured during the Soviet anti-semitic campaign of the late 1940s-early 1950s.
Despite incredible pressure, Lozovsky never admitted his guilt nor accused other people. The closed trial lasted for two and a half months. Another month was spent on the death row awaiting execution. The stenographic report of the trial was published only in 1994 and even then in a highly edited form. Lozovsky was executed on August 12, 1952 together with thirteen other members of Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
External links
- http://www.joshuarubenstein.com/rubenstein/stalinsecret/intro.html
- http://forum.grani.ru/jews/articles/eak/ In Russian.
- http://www.idf.ru/9/doc.shtml In Russian.
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