Lev Semjonowitsch Sosnowski

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Leading members of the opposition in 1927 (Sosnowski, back row, first from right)

Lev Semjonowitsch Sosnowski ( Russian Лев Семёнович Сосновский ; * 1886 in Orenburg , † July 3, 1937 in Moscow ) was a Russian journalist and revolutionary.

Sosnowski joined the Bolsheviks in 1903 . In the 1920s he was one of the most popular journalists in the Soviet Union . He was editor of the newspapers “Trud” and “Bednota” and editor of “Na postu”. In his articles he attacked the Soviet bureaucracy and the profiteers of the NEP . Sosnowski was a co-founder of the Left and the United Opposition. In 1927 he was expelled from the Communist Party and arrested, and in 1934 he capitulated. He was arrested again in 1936 and shot without trial the following year. In 1958 he was rehabilitated.

Works

  • The Bogatyr plant. The struggle for work
  • Russia: not a fairy tale, not a legend, but reality
  • Deeds and people (German edition from 1924, DNB 362369275 )
  • In Memory of Reissner

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personal data
SURNAME Sosnowski, Lev Semjonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sosnovsky, Lev Semionovich; Sosnowski, Leo S .; Сосновский, Лев Семёнович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian journalist and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Orenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1937
Place of death Moscow