The Archive · 1938

Radek to Write Book

Karl Radek, an old Bolshevik feader under Lenin, has been instructed by the Ogpu to write a book on Trotskyism and its methods in the form of a personal confession.

Radek some months ago was imprisoned by the Ogpu for Trotskyism and banished to Siberia after a sensational trial. He has "been living for some weeks near Leningrad. Because he made serious accusations against numerous leading Communists during the trial and was the first to draw the attention of the secret police to Marshal Tuchatshevsky who was subsequently shot, Radek was set free in order to work for the Ogpu—Trans-Ocean.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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