Osip Piatnitsky

Osip Piatnitsky (January 17, 1882 - 29 July 1938) was a revolutionary.

He was an associate of Vladimir Lenin since 1902, when he smuggled Lenin's propaganda into Russia from abroad.

He became head of the Otdel mezhdonarodnoi sviazi (OMS) of the Comintern when it was founded in 1921.^[1]

In 1937 he attempted to organize opposition within the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party to Stalin's "Great Terror." He was arrested and executed.

References

1. ^ William E. Duff (1999). A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals. ISBN 0826513522. http://books.google.com/books?id=cHlWhjZEwXYC. 

Sources

• 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.

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Name	Piatnitsky, Osip
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Date of birth	January 17, 1882
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Date of death	29 July 1938
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