- Kazimierz Cichowski
Kazimierz Cichowski (Russian: "Kazimir Tsikhovsky, Казимир Генрихович Циховский") (1887-1937) was a Polish-Soviet communist activist and politician.
Cichowski joined the
Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in 1907. During the Russian Revolution, he joined theBolshevik party and from November 1917 he was the deputy Commissar for Polish affairs of the Central Executive Committee of theLithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (LitBel), where he soon advanced to more prominent positions (Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of theCongress of Soviets ). After the end of thePolish-Soviet War in 1921, which saw the dissolution of LitBel, he became a member of theCentral Committee of theCommunist Party of Western Ukraine , operating in theSecond Polish Republic . In 1923-1925, Cichowski was imprisoned by the Polish authorities; after release, he joined the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of Poland , becoming a member of its Secretariat and the Political Bureau. In September 1932, he went to theUSSR were he begun working in theComintern (ECCI). Around January-July 1937, he was inSpain where he was head of the Cadres Department of theInternational Brigades headquarters. In August 1937, Cichowski was recalled to Moscow, arrested in October during theGreat Purge , convicted and shot.References
* [http://www.yale.edu/annals/Chase/Documents/doc38chapt5.htm#_edn18 Dimitrov's notes from the investigation materials in the case of the Polish Communists]
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