Solomon Lozovsky

Solomon Lozovsky Соломон Лозовский
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	(1878-03-16)16 March 1878 Kolpino, Russian Empire
Died	12 August 1952(1952-08-12) (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
Awards	Order of Lenin Order of the Patriotic War

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.