Rose Cohen | |
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Born | Rose Cohen 20 May 1894 London, England |
Died | 28 November 1937 | (aged 43)
Cause of death | Execution |
Citizenship | British |
Occupation(s) | journalist, employee of the Comintern, newspaper editor, suffragist |
Spouse | David Petrovsky |
Children | Alexey D. Petrovsky |
Rose Cohen (Russian: Роза Морисовна Коэн, romanized: Roza Morisovna Koen; born 20 May 1894 – 28 November 1937) was an English feminist, suffragist and founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. She worked for Communist International (Comintern) from 1920 to 1929. Between 1931 and 1937, Cohen served as a foreign editor of The Moscow News. She was executed during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, and posthumously rehabilitated in the Soviet Union in 1956.