Christian Rakovsky
1873 – 1941 Bulgarian-Russian Bolshevik leader and Soviet diplomat
The internationalist revolutionary and diplomat who fell as a Trotskyist.
- Religion
- Bulgarian background; a militant atheist and internationalist.
- Affiliations
- Bolshevik Party; head of Soviet Ukraine and a top diplomat; joined Trotsky's opposition and was executed.
Rakovsky was a socialist active across several countries before he led the Soviet government in Ukraine and served as ambassador to London and Paris. A committed ally of Trotsky, he was expelled and exiled within the country. He appeared in the 1938 show trial and was shot in 1941.
Connections
- rival of Joseph Stalin — Tried in 1938 and shot in 1941 on his orders.
- ally of Leon Trotsky — One of his most loyal supporters in the opposition.