Max Levien

Max Levien (Russian: Макс Людвигович Левин, romanized: Maks Lyudvigovich Levin; 21 May 1885 in Moscow – 17 June 1937 in the Soviet Union) was a leading German-Russian communist politician. He was one of the co-founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). As the first party chairman of the KPD in Bavaria, he was in April 1919 one of the protagonists of the Bavarian Soviet Republic that emerged in the wake of the German November Revolution of 1918.

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