Osip Piatnitsky
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Osip Piatnitsky (17 January 1882 – 29 July 1938) was a revolutionary. He was an associate of Vladimir Lenin since 1902, when he smuggled Lenin's propaganda into Russia from abroad.
He became head of the Otdel mezhdonarodnoi sviazi (OMS) of the Comintern when it was founded in 1921.[1]
In 1937 he attempted to organize opposition within the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party to Stalin's "Great Terror".Piatnitsky was arrested and executed on 29 July 1938, aged 56.
[edit] References
- ^ William E. Duff (1999). A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals. ISBN 0826513522. http://books.google.com/books?id=cHlWhjZEwXYC.
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- Antonov-Ovseenko, Anton. The Time of Stalin, Harper & Row, 1991
- Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror, Oxford University Press, 1990
- Kuusinen, Aino. The Rings of Destiny, William Morrow, 1974
- Piatnitsky, Osip. Memoirs of a Bolshevik, International Publishers, 1935
- Trepper, Leopold. The Great Game, McGraw Hill, 1977
- Starkov, Boris. The Trail that was not Held, Europe-Asia Studies, December 1994
