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Rabkrin - The Workers and Peasants Inspection, a commissariat designed to oversee the functioning of the other government departments. It was headed (and abused) by Stalin from its beginning to 1922. Radek, Karl - (1885-1939) Active in Polish revolutionary movement from the age of 18; involved in 1905 Polish revolution; in Germany 1908, supported the SPD left. A member of the Zimmerwald Left bureau with Lenin in 1915, he joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, who sent him secretly to Germany in 1918; arrested February 1919 and freed January 1920; supported March Action, and supported calling off of October 1923 insurrection. He played a leading role on the Executive Committee of the Communist International. He became part of Trotsky's opposition to Stalin 1923-29, being expelled from the CP in 1927 and deported to Siberia. He capitulated in 1929 and became a major apologist for Stalin, but was arrested in 1937 during the Moscow frame-up trials and died in prison. Rasputin, Gregory - (1872-1916) was an illiterate Siberian monk and mystic who gained great influence in the last Czarist court of Nicholas II; he was assassinated by members of the nobility. Rationalism - The theory which holds that reason is the unique source of knowledge as against empiricism which holds that perception is the source of knowledge. Reed, John - American Journalist, Author of Ten Days That Shook the World and a founder of the American Communist Party. At the end of 1920 he contracted typhus and died in Moscow. Reichswehr - The regular army of Weimar Germany, made up of old units and the Freikorps, later to become the Wehrmacht. Under the Treaty of Versailles, supposed to be limited to 100,000 men, but n fact supplemented by secret contingents - the Black Reichswehr. Exclusion of Communists ensured its political reliability for the right. Rheinische Zeitung fur Politik, Handel und Gewerb (Rhenish Gazette on Politics, Trade and Manufacture) - A daily newspaper that appeared in Cologne from January 1 1842 to March 31 1843. It was founded by representatives of the Rhenish bourgeoisie who were opposed to Prussian absolutism. Some Left Hegelians were invited to contribue to the newspaper. Marx became a collaborator in April 1842 and was one of the paper's editors from October of that year. Under Marx, the Rheinische Zeitung began to take on a more definite revolutionary-democratic character. In January 1843, the Prussian government issued an order to close down the newspaper from April 1 1843 and to establish a particularly strict censorship in the meantime. In connection with the plans of the newspaper shareholders to make it more moderate, Marx resigned on March 17, 1843. Back to the Glossary of Marxist Terms
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