Adolf Warski, born Jerzy Adolf Warszawski (April 20, 1868, Warsaw

Warsaw

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 – July 9, 1937, Moscow

Moscow

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), was a leader and theoretician of the Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 communist

Communism

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 movement.

He was active in the working class

Working class

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 movement from 1889, becoming a member of the executive of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania

Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania

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 (SDKPiL), and a member of the Communist Party of Poland

Communist Party of Poland

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 (KPP) from 1918. He held positions in the KPP's Central Committee

Central Committee

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 (1919-29) and Politburo

Politburo

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 (1923-29, with an interruption), and lived in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 from 1929 until his death.

An opponent of the Stalinisation

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 of the KPP and of the Communist International, Warski was arrested during the Great Purge

Great Purge

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, in early 1937, and executed. He was fully rehabilitated

Rehabilitation (Soviet)

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 in 1956, during the De-Stalinization

History of the Soviet Union (1953-1985)

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 process that followed Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

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's death, and the Szczecin

Szczecin

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 shipyard

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, Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa

Szczecin Shipyard

Szczecin Shipyard or New Szczecin Shipyard was a shipyard in northwestern city of Szczecin, Poland. Formerly known as Stocznia Szczecińska Porta Holding S.A. or Stocznia im. Adolfa Warskiego. The shipyard specialized in the construction of container ships, chemicals transport ships, multi-purpose...

, was renamed in his honor (Stoczni im. Adolfa Warskiego) by the authorities of the People's Republic of Poland

People's Republic of Poland

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