- Adolf Warski
Adolf Warski, born Jerzy Adolf Warszawski (
April 20 ,1868 ,Warsaw —July 9 ,1937 ,Moscow ), was a leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement.He was active in the
working class movement from 1889, becoming a member of the executive of theSocial Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), and a member of theCommunist Party of Poland (KPP) from 1918. He held positions in the KPP'sCentral Committee (1919-29) andPolitburo (1923-29, with an interruption), and lived in theSoviet Union from 1929 until his death.An opponent of the Stalinisation of the KPP and of the
Communist International , Warski was arrested during theGreat Purge , in early 1937, and executed. He was fully rehabilitated in 1956, during the De-Stalinization process that followedJoseph Stalin 's death, and theSzczecin shipyard ,Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa , was renamed in his honor ("Stoczni im. Adolfa Warskiego") by the authorities of thePeople's Republic of Poland .
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