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Comintern, Piatnitsky held several positions of high importance in the hierarchy of the Russian Communist Party. In 1924, he was elected a member of the Communist Party's Central Control Committee, a body in charge of matters of party discipline, remaining in
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Germany, where he once again took up work for the Bolshevik Party, coordinating secret communications from the party center abroad to its network of activists inside Russia.
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movement among the city's carpenters, joining a workers' self-education circle. In 1898 Tarshis became active in the Kovno's illegal tailor's union, helping to conduct educational and organizational work on its behalf.
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in 1926, the post he formerly held as "President" of the
Comintern was eliminated, to be replaced by a new Political Secretariat, to which Piatnitsky was elected. Piatnitsky's role was subsequently confirmed by the
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Comintern elected Piatnitsky as of four top leaders of the organization to sit on the body's governing Secretariat. Piatnitsky was joined as a member of the Comintern Secretariat by the Bulgarian
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in 1935, he was not re-elected to any of the positions in the organization which he had held previously. Thereafter he returned briefly to work in the All-Union
Communist Party (bolsheviks).
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that position through 1927. In that year, Piatnitsky was made a full member of the governing
Central Committee of the RKP(b) in which he continued until the time of his arrest in 1937.
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secret police. This early "party name" became the root of
Tarshis's best-known pseudonym, Osip Piatnitsky, and it is by this name that he will henceforth be referred to here.
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wings. Piatnitsky sided with Lenin and the
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in Odessa. Unsurprisingly, this activity again drew the scrutiny of the secret police and in
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during the 1920s and early 1930s, a position which made him one of the leading public faces of the international communist movement.
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65:), was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. Piatnitsky is best remembered as head of the International Department of the
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of 1924 returned him as a member of the Secretariat, Orgburo, budget commission, and ECCI. Following the fall of
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In 1901 Piatnitsky became associated with the Internationalist wing of the RSDLP, a group prominently including
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