year his son was born and Jasieński became editor-in-chief of Kultura mass ('Culture of the Masses'), a Polish language monthly, and a journalist for the Soviet Tribune. He divorced Klara and married Anna Berzin, with whom he had a daughter. Jasieński began to write in Russian; he produced a play (1931), a novel, and collections of stories. In 1932, he transferred from the Polish division of the French Communist Party to the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and soon became a prominent member of that organization. He relocated to Moscow. He served in various posts in literary departments of the communist party and at the Union of Soviet Writers. He was granted honorary citizenship of Tajikistan. By the mid-1930s, he became a strong supporter of Genrikh Yagoda's political purges within the writers' community; according to Wat, Jasieński was active in the campaign against Isaac Babel. From 1933 to 1937, he worked on the editorial staff of the multilingual magazine Internatsionalnaya Literatura ('International Literature'). However, in 1937 Yagoda himself was arrested and Jasieński lost a powerful protector. Soon afterwards, Jasieński's former wife Klara, allegedly involved in an affair with Yagoda, was also arrested, sentenced to death and executed. Jasieński was expelled from the party and he too was caught up in the purges. Sentenced to death by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charge of participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization on 17 September 1938 and executed the same day in Kommunarka shooting ground near Moscow as finally established in 1992. He was rehabilitated in 1955. Family Jasieński's second wife Anna was arrested in 1939 and was imprisoned in Soviet gulags for seventeen years. His underage son was sent to an orphanage to be brought up with no knowledge of his or his family's past. He escaped during World War II. After the war, he became prominent in Russia's criminal underworld. Having eventually discovered his true origins, he adopted a Polish name and became active in dissident organizations opposing the communist regime. He was killed in the 1970s. See also Polish Operation of the NKVD Tomasz Dąbal References External links Anna Meller, Pawel Wawrzyniak, Bruno Jasieński. List of works, including poetry and manifestos. University of Gdańsk. (Polish) Brunonalia festival at brunonalia.pl Bruno Jasienski's I Burn Paris & the Plague of Proletarian Internationalism at loosavor.org Jasieński at Twisted Spoon Press I Burn Paris (Twisted Spoon Press) The Motherland will