Charles Emil Ruthenberg
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican politician (1882-1927)
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Charles Emil Ruthenberg was an American Marxist politician who was the founder and first head of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). He is one of five Americans to be buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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Cover of Ruthenberg's first political pamphlet, published in 1917 by the local Cleveland Socialist Party. According to WorldCat less than a dozen copies are known to exist.
Ruthenberg (top row, third from left) with members of the Socialist Party's War Committee at the 1917 Emergency National Convention.
Ruthenberg speaks at a May Day rally in Cleveland, 1917
Cartoon of Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Charles Baker in the potato patch of the Canton Workhouse from a 1917 pamphlet collecting speeches from their trial.
Ruthenberg speaks at an anti-militarist rally in Cleveland, 1918
Ruthenberg c. 1918
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1882 to 1927 · aged 44
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