Józef Unszlicht

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Józef Unszlicht (Russian: Iosif Unshlikht, nicknames Jurowski, Leon) (December 31 [O.S. 19 December] 1879 in Mława - July 28, 1938), a Jewish communist (Bolshevik) activist. A member of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1900, he took part in Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution and in 1918 joined the Red Army.

In 1919 Unszlicht served briefly as an authority in Lithuania and Belarus, and in 1920 joined the Politburo of the Communist Party. During the Polish-Soviet War in August 1920 he became a member of Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee, the Soviet puppet government of Poland in Bialystok.

He was arrested in 1937, during the Great Purge, and executed in 1938.

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• Unszlicht files from his trial in 1937