Hugo Urbahns (1890,

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– 1946,

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) was a German communist revolutionary and politician. He was involved in the

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(KPD) in the 1920s. He was jailed for his role in the

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of 1923, and spent time on

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. Frank, Pierre ''The Long March of the Trotskyists: A History of the Fourth International'' Chapter 3 He was expelled from the KPD in the late 1920s, and became a leader of the Leninbund, a left split from the KPD. For a time he had links with

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, but they drifted apart over a number of issues, including Urbahns' development of "third campist" positions that the Soviet Union was no longer a workers' state.Trotsky, Leon ''An Open Letter to All Members of the Leninbund'' (1933)

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