Józef Unszlicht

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Biography

Early life (1879–1917)

Unszlicht was born on 31 December 1879.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was born in Mława, Płock Governorate, Congress Poland, in a Jewish family.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> He joined the revolutionary movement in 1896, as a student in Warsaw studying electrical engineering. In 1900, he joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), led by Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches. For his conspiratorial activities in Warsaw and Łódź, he was arrested seven times in 1902–13.<ref name="Abramov">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1911, he joined the rozlamovists, a group of mainly younger SDPKiL members, led by Yakov Ganetsky, who opposed Jogiches' leadership methods, and who were close to Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. The split became so acrimonious that the SDPKiL leadership accused Unszlicht of being a police agent, an accusation that seems to have been baseless.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Political activity after the Revolution (1917–1937)

At the time of the February Revolution, Unszlicht was in exile in Siberia, where he was elected a member of the Irkutsk soviet, and joined the Bolsheviks. In April, he moved to Petrograd, where he helped organise the Bolsheviks' military organisation. He was arrested for his role in the July Days and held in Krestny prison, but soon released. In December 1917, he was one of the founders of Cheka. In 1919 he served briefly as People's Commissar for Military Affairs in Lithuania and Belarus. In April, he led the defence of Wilno (Vilnius) as it was being overrun by the Polish army, commanded by Józef Piłsudski.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In May 1920, after the Polish army had been forced to retreat, Unszlicht ingratiated Lenin by advising him that if the Red Army invaded Poland, they would be welcomed as liberators by the Polish workers and peasants.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> During the Polish–Soviet War, he was a member of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee, which would have become the government of communist Poland had the Poles lost the war.

In 1921, Unszlicht was appointed Deputy head of Cheka, under Felix Dzerzhinsky, but they fell out in 1923, after a series of bomb attacks in Warsaw, which Unszlicht appears to have instigated, without consulting Dzerzhinsky or the leadership of the Communist Party of Poland.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was transferred to the post of chief of supply for the Red Army, although Leon Trotsky, the People's Commissar for War, regarded him as "an ambitious but talentless intriguer" who had been placed there to undermine him.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> On 6 February 1925, he was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for War. He led over 7000 troops in an offensive against uprisings in Chechnya during the summer of 1925.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1930, he was transferred to economic work, in an apparent demotion. In September 1933, he was appointed head of the Civil Air Fleet. In February 1935, he replaced Avel Yenukidze as Secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

Head of the Chief Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet (1935)

Arrest and execution

Józef Unszlicht was arrested on 11 June 1937. Two weeks later, the head of the NKVD, Nikolay Yezhov told a plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party that the police had uncovered a "Polish Military Organisation" (POV) of spies who had infiltrated the USSR by posing as political émigrés, and named Unszlicht as its leader.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He confessed under interrogation, and named as his 'accomplices' most of the leading members of the Polish Communist Party in exile, who were arrested and shot.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He retracted his testimony during his 20-minute trial, on 28 July 1938, saying that he had never been a member of the POV and confessed only because "he could not endure a long interrogation"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> – implying that his interrogators had used sleep deprivation to break him – but was sentenced to death and executed at the Kommunarka shooting ground on 29 July 1938. He was rehabilitated in 1956.<ref name="Abramov" />

Family

Unszlicht's brother Julian was a journalist who "fought against the socialist movement in general and especially against Jewish involvement in it."<ref name="Hoffman and Mendelsohn2">Hoffman, Stefani, and Ezra Mendelsohn. The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN P. 283.</ref> In later years, Julian converted to Catholicism and joined the priesthood.<ref name="Hoffman and Mendelsohn2" /> His sisters were Zofia Unszlicht-Osińska (executed in the purges) and Stefania Brun, wife of the literary critic and communist activist Julian Brun.

His wife, Stefania was arrested for being the wife of a convicted counter-revolutionary and sentenced in August 1938 to either five or eight years in labour camps. She was released in 1943.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They had a son, Kasimir, a student and member of Komsomol, who died in 1929, aged 19.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

According to Walter Krivitsky, an intelligence officer who defected to the West, Unszlicht had a nephew, Max Maximov-Unszlicht, who was chief of the Soviet military intelligence operating in Nazi Germany for nearly three years and was also arrested and probably executed during the Great Purge.<ref>Krivitsky, Walter G. (1939). In Stalin's secret service: An Exposé of Russia's Secret Policies by the Former Chief of the Soviet Intelligence in Western Europe. New York: Harper Brothers. p. 246.</ref>

Honours and awards

Order of the Red Banner

References

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