Sarra Naumowna Rawitsch

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Sarra Rawitsch (marked 9) in front of the Smolny Institute , on the first anniversary of the October Revolution (1918)

Sarra Naumowna Rawitsch called Olga ( Russian Сарра Наумовна Равич * 1. August 1879 in Vitebsk , Russian Empire , † 1957 ) was a Russian revolutionary.

Life

Rawitsch lived in exile in Switzerland from 1907. She married Grigory Zinoviev , but the marriage was divorced again. In 1908 she was arrested in Munich in connection with the attack on the Bank of Tbilisi organized by Josef Stalin . From 1914 she was a colleague of Lenin . Together with her friend Minin , she was responsible for the printing and distribution of Lenin's central organ "Social Democrat". In 1917 she accompanied Lenin on his return trip through Germany to Russia. In 1925 she was a member of the Leningrad opposition. In 1935 she was expelled from the CPSU and then arrested several times and in the Gulag- Imprisoned in labor camps. In 1954, already seriously ill, she was released.

literature

  • Wolf-Dietrich Gutjahr: “There must be a revolution”. Karl Radek. The biography. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20725-0 . Page 201

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personal data
SURNAME Rawitsch, Sarra Naumovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rawitsch, Olga; Ravitch, Sarah Naumovna; Равич, Сарра Наумовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1957