| LC control no. | n 2009052392 |
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| Personal name heading | Pepper, John, 1886-1938 |
| See also | Pogány, József, 1886-1938 |
| Found in | LCCN l 23000222: Pepper, J. For a labor party, 1923 (usage: John Pepper) Wikipedia, Aug. 19, 2009 (John Pepper; real name József Pogány, also known as Joseph; b. 1886, Budapest; d. 1937, USSR; Hungarian Jewish-born Communist active in the United States; original name was Josef Schwartz; using his new name John Pepper, he went illegally to the United States in 1922 to assist with the Hungarian language Federation of the American Communist movement, learned English quickly, and soon became one of the Workers Party's most authoritative voices; member of the editorial board of the The liberator in the early 1920s; Pepper returned to the US as Joseph Stalin's agent to oversee the expulsion of Trotskyists in the Communist Party, USA; later back in the Soviet Union, Pepper would himself become a victim of the Great Purges in 1937) |
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