“Famous for his jokes.”

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Expelled from Party in 1927, readmitted in 1930. Tried for treason (second Moscow Trial of the 17 in 1937), confesses and implicates close friend BUKHARIN and others; spared death. Murdered by NKVD agents in labor camp. Famous for his jokes.

An excerpt from Karl Radek’s entry in the glossary of the forthcoming edition of Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge

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