Solomon Lozovsky
Solomon Lozovsky Соломон Лозовский | |
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Lozovsky in 1928 | |
| General Secretary of the Red International of Labour Unions | |
| In office 3 July 1921 – 1937 | |
| Deputy | Andrés Nin |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Chairman of the International Trade Union Council | |
| In office 1920 – 3 July 1921 | |
| Deputy | Mikhail Tomsky |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 March 1878 |
| Died | 12 August 1952 (aged 74) |
| Party | RSDLP (1901–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1914) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1918, 1919–1949) |
| Occupation | Trade unionist |
| Awards | |
Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky (Russian: Соломон Абрамович Лозовский; 16 March 1878 – 12 August 1952) was a prominent Communist and Bolshevik revolutionary, a high-ranking official in the Soviet government, including as a Presidium member of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, a Central Committee member of the Communist Party, a member of the Supreme Soviet, a deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs and the head of the Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo). He was also the chair of the department of International Relations at the Higher Party School. Lozovsky was executed in 1952, together with thirteen other members of Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, in an event known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. He was the last and oldest Old Bolshevik to be murdered on Stalin's orders.