Word: lodz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vilna and Kharkow, was deported to Siberia (1887-1892) for alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland, and soon became the leader of the Socialist party at Lodz. Here he founded the Kobotnik (Workman) - still the organ of the Socialist Party in Poland. After searching vainly for years, the Russian police discovered the headquarters of the paper. Pilsudski and his wife were implicated. He was arrested and imprisoned in the citadel of Warsaw, but feigned insanity so successfully that...