Khristian Georgiyevich Rakovsky

Soviet government official
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Also known as: Insarov
Quick Facts
Born:
August 13, 1873, Kotel, Bulgaria
Died:
after 1938

Khristian Georgiyevich Rakovsky (born August 13, 1873, Kotel, Bulgaria—died after 1938) was a Bulgarian revolutionary who conducted subversive activities in Romania before joining the Russian Bolshevik Party and becoming a leading political figure in Soviet Russia. The grandson of the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Rakovski, he became involved in socialist activities and was forbidden to attend the university at Sofia (1890). At Montpellier, Fr., he earned a medical degree, and, under the pseudonym of Insarov, he contributed articles to Iskra and Pravda, the Russian revolutionary newspapers. Upon his return to Romania, Rakovsky organized a socialist party and was twice arrested and ...(100 of 346 words)