Osip Piatnitsky

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Osip Piatnitsky (1882 - 29 July 1938) was a revolutionary and Old Bolshevik who served as a leader of the Comintern. In 1937 he attempted to organize opposition within the the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party to Stalin's "Great Terror." He was arrested and executed.

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  • Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, The Time of Stalin, Harper & Row, 1991.
  • Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Aino Kuusinen, The Rings of Destiny, William Morrow, 1974.
  • Osip Piatnitsky, Memoirs of a Bolshevik, International Publishers, 1935.
  • Leopold Trepper, The Great Game, McGraw Hill, 1977.
  • Boris Starkov, The Trail that was not Held, Europe-Asia Studies, Dec. 1994.