Solomon Lozovsky

Solomon Lozovsky
Соломон Лозовский
General Secretary of the Red International of Labour Unions
In office
3 July 1921 – 1937
DeputyAndrés Nin
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byPost abolished
Chairman of the International Trade Union Council
In office
1920 – 3 July 1921
DeputyMikhail Tomsky
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byPost abolished
Personal details
Born(1878-03-16)16 March 1878
Kolpino, Russian Empire
Died12 August 1952(1952-08-12) (aged 74)
Bolshevo, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (1901–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1914)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1918, 1919–1949)
OccupationTrade unionist
Awards

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.