- Julian Marchlewski
Julian Balthasar Marchlewski (
May 17 ,1866 -March 22 ,1925 ) was a Polishsocialist and latercommunist functionary. He was also known under the aliases Karski and Kujawiak.He was born in West Prussia to a Jewish family. [Jaff Schatz: "The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland". Uni. Of California Press, Berkeley, 1991] He was a dyer. In 1889, he was one of the co-founders of the Polish Workers' Union. In 1893, he together with
Rosa Luxemburg , founded the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland, which was dissolved in 1895 due to massive arrests. After 1900, he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom Poland andLithuania .He took part in the
Russian Revolution of 1905 in the Polish territories. In 1906, he joined theBolshevik s. After the failure of the revolution he emigrated toGermany . DuringWorld War I , he participated in the German social democratic movement and was a co-founder of the left-wingSpartakus (Spartacist League ). He was arrested and later exchanged with Russia for a Germanspy . In 1919, during thePolish-Soviet War , he took part in the negotiations withPoland . During theRed Army counterattack underMikhail Tukhachevsky , he headed thePolish Provisional Revolutionary Committee ("Tymczasowy Komitet Rewolucyjny Polski") inBiałystok in 1920, which planned to declare the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic.As an economist, he was an expert in
agriculture and took part in the preparation of the Bolshevik program with respect to the peasantry.He published a number of scientific and ideological works.
He died in
Neri ,Italy during a vacation.His daughter Sonja was the second wife of the artist
Heinrich Vogeler .In 1926, he was the namesake for the Polish Autonomous District in
Ukraine (Marchlewszczyzna ), with the capital at Marchlewsk (known before and after as Dołbysz or Dowbysz). (A similar Polish district ofDzierzynszczyzna , after Felix Dzerzhinsky, was inBelarus ).The Jan Paweł II street inWarsaw was formerly the Marchlewski street.References
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