Stanisław Stande

Stanisław Ryszard Stande was a Polish communist poet, journalist, writer, translator, and politician, as well as a member of the Communist Party of Poland and later editor of the monthly journal International Literature. He was born on November 16, 1897, in Warsaw, Poland, and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University.

In 1923, Stande joined the Communist Party of Poland. In 1925, together with W. Wandurski and W. Broniewski, he published the programmatic manifesto of proletarian poetry, Three Volleys (Trzy salwy).

In 1931, he left for the USSR, where he became editor of International Literature. On September 9, 1937, he was arrested as an “enemy of the people.” On November 1, 1937, he was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court to execution on charges of espionage and was shot the same day in Moscow. He was buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery and rehabilitated on November 1, 1955.

His personal life included three marriages: first to Zofia Lilien from 1920 to 1925, then to Zofia Warska from 1927 to 1935, the daughter of the revolutionary activist Adolf Warski, and finally in 1935 to the pianist Maria Izrailevna Grinberg. He had a daughter, Olga Stande-Armatys.

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