Julian Leszczyński was leader of the Stalinist faction in the Communist Party of Poland, led the party in the 1930s, and himself fell victim to Stalin"s Great Purge.
Career
He was on the Central Committee of the KPP (1925-1937), the Political Bureau (1927-1937) and was General Secretary from 1929-1937. In mid-June 1937 he was summoned by the Communist International from Paris to Moscow and arrested by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. There is some doubt about whether he was executed immediately or not. According to one version of events, he was imprisoned and died on 20 August 1939.
Politics
He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in 1905, and was also a member of the Bolshevik Party.
Membership
From 1917 he was a commissar of the Polish Commissariat of the Russian People"s Commissariat for Nationalities, and a member of the Polish Bureau of the Bolshevik Party Central Committee. From 1926 he was on the executive of the Communist International and from 1929 was a member of its Presidium.
