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'''Adolf Warski''' (] Адольф Варшавский) (born '''Adolf''' '''Jerzy Warszawski'''; 20 April 1868 – 21 August 1937), was a Polish communist leader, journalist and theoretician of the ] movement in ]. During Stalin's ] he was arrested and executed.
⚫ '''Adolf Warski''', born '''Jerzy (or Adolf) Warszawski''' (April 20, 1868, ], ] - August 21, 1937, ]), was a Polish communist leader, journalist and theoretician of the ] movement in ]. Warski was born into an assimilated ] parents.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=luRry4Y5NIYC&pg=PA641&dq=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDi-mjjKTiAhXSFTQIHcagAVAQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q=Adolf%20Warski%20born%20Warszawski&f=false|title=Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945|last=Lerski|first=Halina|date=1996-01-19|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313034565|language=en}}</ref> His father Saul, a commercial clerk, changed the name to Stanisław.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=H3vjdU-v4isC&pg=PA1021&dq=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDi-mjjKTiAhXSFTQIHcagAVAQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Adolf%20Warski%20born%20Warszawski&f=false|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|last=Lane|first=A. T.|date=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313299001|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=9B0FAQAAIAAJ&q=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski&dq=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDi-mjjKTiAhXSFTQIHcagAVAQ6AEIRjAF|title=Rosa Luxemburg: A Life for the International|last=Abraham|first=Richard|date=1989-08-04|publisher=Berg Publishers|isbn=9780854961825|language=en}}</ref><ref></ref>


==Biography==
Warski was active in the ] movement from 1889, becoming a member of the executive of the ] (SDKPiL),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=7NgcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&dq=Adolf+Warski&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7zr7Mk6TiAhWwJzQIHa3HAbMQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=Adolf%20Warski%20SDKPiL&f=false|title=Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution|last=White|first=James D.|date=2001-03-13|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=9780333985373|language=en}}</ref> and a member of the ] (KPP) from 1918. He held positions in the KPP's ] (1919–29) and ] (1923-29, with an interruption), but then left ] for the ] where he lived from 1929 until his execution.

⚫ Warski was born in ] into an assimilated ] family.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Lerski|first=Halina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=luRry4Y5NIYC&q=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski&pg=PA641|title=Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945|date=1996-01-19|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313034565|pages=641|language=en}}</ref> His father Saul, a commercial clerk, changed the name to Stanisław. The family was of pro-independence and patriotic traditions.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3vjdU-v4isC&q=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski&pg=PA1021|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|last=Lane|first=A. T.|date=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313299001|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9B0FAQAAIAAJ&q=Adolf+Warski+born+Warszawski|title=Rosa Luxemburg: A Life for the International|last=Abraham|first=Richard|date=1989-08-04|publisher=Berg Publishers|isbn=9780854961825|language=en}}</ref><ref></ref>

Warski was active in the ] movement from 1889, when he co-founded the Union of Polish workers, with ] and ]. In 1893, he was one of the four founders of the ] (SDKPiL), with ], ], and Marchlewski.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nettl |first1=J.P. |title=Rosa Luxemburg |date=1966 |publisher=Oxford U.P. |location=London |pages=58.79}}</ref> In 1897, he moved to Munich, where he became close to leaders of the ], In July 1903, during the second congress of the RSDLP in Brussels, Warski pleaded for the SDPKiL to be recognised as the autonomous Polish section of the Russian party.<ref>{{cite book |title=1903 Second Ordinary Congress of the RSDLP, Complete Text of the Minutes |date=1978 |publisher=New Park |location=London |isbn=0-902030-94-9}}</ref> Warski returned to Poland during the ], but emigrated again after it was suppressed. In 1907, during the London Congress of the RSDLP, he was elected as the Polish representative on its Central Committee.

In 1918 Warski was one of the founders of the ] (KPP), formed by a merger of the SDPKiL and the left faction of the Polish Socialist Party. Warski held positions in the KPP's ] (1919–29) and ] (1923–29, with an interruption).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=White|first=James D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NgcBQAAQBAJ&q=Adolf+Warski+SDKPiL&pg=PA93|title=Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution|date=2001-03-13|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=9780333985373|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was the senior member of the triumvirate known as the 'three Ws' who ran the party for its first six years. The other triumvirs were ] and ].

After the failure of the ] in Germany, and similar but smaller-scale disturbances in Poland, the three Ws vigorously defended the leaders of the German party, who were accused of passivity, and as a power struggle developed in the Kremlin between during ]'s terminal illness, pitching ] and the chairman of ], ] against Trotsky, they issued a statement in December 1923 declaring that the name of comrade Trotsky is for our party, for the whole International, for the whole revolutionary world proletariat, indissolubly bound up with the victorious ]."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=E.H. |title=The Interregnum, 1923-1924 |date=1969 |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex |page=243}}</ref> Warski and his allies then under attack from a left wing faction, led by ].

The record of the Polish leadership was subjected to a three-day examination during the Fifth Comintern Congress in June 1924, chaired by Stalin, after which Warski capitulated and wrote a recantation, published in '']'' in January 1925.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=E.H. |title=Socialism in One Country, Volume 3 |date=1972 |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex |pages=202, 207}}</ref>

Unlike Walecki and Kostrzewa, he was allowed to continue as an active member of the Polish CP. In 1926 was elected as a member of the Polish Parliament (]), but in March 1929, he was forced to emigrate to the ] where he worked in the ] on the history of the Polish labour movement.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lazitch |first1=Branko, in collaboration with Milorad Drachkovitch |title=Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern |date=1973 |publisher=Hoover Institution Press |location=Stanford, Cal |isbn=0-8179-1211-8 |page=437}}</ref> He was an atheist.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lowy|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnchDAAAQBAJ&q=Adolf+Warski+atheist&pg=PT38|title=Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe|date=2017-03-28|publisher=Verso Books|isbn=978-1-78663-087-2|language=en}}</ref>

At the age of 69, Warski was one of the oldest victims of the ]. In June 1937, the head of the ], ] told a plenum of the ] that the police had uncovered a 'Polish Military organisation', whose members had infiltrated the USSR by posing as political refugees.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marc Jensen |first1=and Nikita Petrov |title=Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 |date=2002 |publisher=Hoover Institution Press |location=Stanford, Cal |isbn=978-0-8179-2902-2 |page=76}}</ref> Warski was arrested and accused of being a leader of this fictitious organisation. Under interrogation, he admitted to having made political errors during the 1920s but categorically denied belonging to any organisation working for the Polish government.<ref>{{cite web |title=Записка И.А. Серова и П.В. Баранова Н.С. Хрущеву о реабилитации группы бывших руководящих работников компартии Польши. 18 февраля 1955 г. (Note by I.A.Serov and P.V.Baranov to N.S.Khrushchev about the rehabilitation of a group of former leaders of the Communist Party of Poland. 18 February 1955) |url=https://istmat.org/node/57889 |website=Реабилитация: как это было. Документы Президиума ЦК КПСС и другие материалы. Март 1953 — февраль 1956 |publisher=Международняй фонд "демократия" (Moscow) |access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref> It was rumoured that under interrogation by the ], he went mad, and imagined that he was in the hands of the ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Conquest |first1=Robert |title=The Great Terror |date=1971 |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex |page=584}}</ref> He was shot on 21 August 1937.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFLoBgAAQBAJ&q=Adolf+Warski+execution&pg=PA1248|title=To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921|date=2015-02-13|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004288034|language=en}}</ref>

⚫ Warski was fully ] in 1956,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6LaAAAAMAAJ&q=Adolf+Warski+rehabilitation|title=Marxism, wars, and revolutions: essays from four decades|last1=Deutscher|first1=Isaac|last2=Deutscher|first2=Tamara|date=1984|publisher=Verso|isbn=9780860910954|language=en}}</ref> during the ] process that followed Joseph Stalin's death, and the ] ], ], was renamed in his honor (''Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego'') by the authorities of the ].


⚫ An opponent of the ] of the KPP and of the ], Warski was arrested during the ], in early 1937, and executed.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=PFLoBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1248&dq=Adolf+Warski+execution&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigtsK3lKTiAhUSLX0KHdqYC08Q6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=Adolf%20Warski%20execution&f=false|title=To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921|date=2015-02-13|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004288034|language=en}}</ref> He was fully ] in 1956, during the ] process that followed ]'s death, and the ] ], ], was renamed in his honor (''Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego'') by the authorities of the ].
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Polish politician (1868–1937)

Adolf Warski

Adolf Warski (Ru: Адольф Варшавский) (born Adolf Jerzy Warszawski; 20 April 1868 – 21 August 1937), was a Polish communist leader, journalist and theoretician of the communist movement in Poland. During Stalin's Great Purge he was arrested and executed.

Biography

Warski was born in Warsaw into an assimilated Polish Jewish family. His father Saul, a commercial clerk, changed the name to Stanisław. The family was of pro-independence and patriotic traditions.

Warski was active in the communist movement from 1889, when he co-founded the Union of Polish workers, with Julian Marchlewski and Bronislaw Wesolowski. In 1893, he was one of the four founders of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), with Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches, and Marchlewski. In 1897, he moved to Munich, where he became close to leaders of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, In July 1903, during the second congress of the RSDLP in Brussels, Warski pleaded for the SDPKiL to be recognised as the autonomous Polish section of the Russian party. Warski returned to Poland during the 1905 Russian Revolution, but emigrated again after it was suppressed. In 1907, during the London Congress of the RSDLP, he was elected as the Polish representative on its Central Committee.

In 1918 Warski was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP), formed by a merger of the SDPKiL and the left faction of the Polish Socialist Party. Warski held positions in the KPP's Central Committee (1919–29) and Politburo (1923–29, with an interruption). He was the senior member of the triumvirate known as the 'three Ws' who ran the party for its first six years. The other triumvirs were Henryk Walecki and Wera Kostrzewa.

After the failure of the 1923 communist uprising in Germany, and similar but smaller-scale disturbances in Poland, the three Ws vigorously defended the leaders of the German party, who were accused of passivity, and as a power struggle developed in the Kremlin between during Lenin's terminal illness, pitching Joseph Stalin and the chairman of Comintern, Grigory Zinoviev against Trotsky, they issued a statement in December 1923 declaring that the name of comrade Trotsky is for our party, for the whole International, for the whole revolutionary world proletariat, indissolubly bound up with the victorious October Revolution." Warski and his allies then under attack from a left wing faction, led by Julian Lenski.

The record of the Polish leadership was subjected to a three-day examination during the Fifth Comintern Congress in June 1924, chaired by Stalin, after which Warski capitulated and wrote a recantation, published in Pravda in January 1925.

Unlike Walecki and Kostrzewa, he was allowed to continue as an active member of the Polish CP. In 1926 was elected as a member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm), but in March 1929, he was forced to emigrate to the Soviet Union where he worked in the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute on the history of the Polish labour movement. He was an atheist.

At the age of 69, Warski was one of the oldest victims of the Great Purge. In June 1937, the head of the NKVD, Nikolai Yezhov told a plenum of the Central Committee that the police had uncovered a 'Polish Military organisation', whose members had infiltrated the USSR by posing as political refugees. Warski was arrested and accused of being a leader of this fictitious organisation. Under interrogation, he admitted to having made political errors during the 1920s but categorically denied belonging to any organisation working for the Polish government. It was rumoured that under interrogation by the NKVD, he went mad, and imagined that he was in the hands of the Gestapo. He was shot on 21 August 1937.

Warski was fully rehabilitated in 1956, during the De-Stalinization process that followed Joseph Stalin's death, and the Szczecin shipyard, Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa, was renamed in his honor (Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego) by the authorities of the People's Republic of Poland.

References

  1. ^ Lerski, Halina (1996-01-19). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. ABC-CLIO. p. 641. ISBN 9780313034565.
  2. Lane, A. T. (1995). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313299001.
  3. Abraham, Richard (1989-08-04). Rosa Luxemburg: A Life for the International. Berg Publishers. ISBN 9780854961825.
  4. Варский Адольф Станиславович
  5. Nettl, J.P. (1966). Rosa Luxemburg. London: Oxford U.P. p. 58.79.
  6. 1903 Second Ordinary Congress of the RSDLP, Complete Text of the Minutes. London: New Park. 1978. ISBN 0-902030-94-9.
  7. White, James D. (2001-03-13). Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 9780333985373.
  8. Carr, E.H. (1969). The Interregnum, 1923-1924. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. p. 243.
  9. Carr, E.H. (1972). Socialism in One Country, Volume 3. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. pp. 202, 207.
  10. Lazitch, Branko, in collaboration with Milorad Drachkovitch (1973). Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford, Cal: Hoover Institution Press. p. 437. ISBN 0-8179-1211-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. Lowy, Michael (2017-03-28). Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78663-087-2.
  12. Marc Jensen, and Nikita Petrov (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940. Stanford, Cal: Hoover Institution Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8179-2902-2.
  13. "Записка И.А. Серова и П.В. Баранова Н.С. Хрущеву о реабилитации группы бывших руководящих работников компартии Польши. 18 февраля 1955 г. (Note by I.A.Serov and P.V.Baranov to N.S.Khrushchev about the rehabilitation of a group of former leaders of the Communist Party of Poland. 18 February 1955)". Реабилитация: как это было. Документы Президиума ЦК КПСС и другие материалы. Март 1953 — февраль 1956. Международняй фонд "демократия" (Moscow). Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  14. Conquest, Robert (1971). The Great Terror. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. p. 584.
  15. To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. BRILL. 2015-02-13. ISBN 9789004288034.
  16. Deutscher, Isaac; Deutscher, Tamara (1984). Marxism, wars, and revolutions: essays from four decades. Verso. ISBN 9780860910954.

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