Solomon Lozovsky Соломон Лозовский | |
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| General Secretary of the Red International of Labour Unions | |
| In office 3 July 1921 – 1937 | |
| Deputy | Andrés Nin |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Chairman of the International Trade Union Council | |
| In office 1920 – 3 July 1921 | |
| Deputy | Mikhail Tomsky |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 March 1878 Kolpino, Russian Empire |
| Died | 12 August 1952 (aged 74) Bolshevo, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | RSDLP (1901–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1914) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1918, 1919–1949) |
| Occupation | Trade unionist |
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Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky (Russian: Соломон Абрамович Лозовский, family birth name: Dridzo Russian: Дридзо, 1878–1952) 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 Soviet 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.