22 Facts About Rose Cohen

Rose Cohen was an English feminist, suffragist, and founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920.

Rose Cohen worked for Communist International from 1920 to 1929.

Between 1931 and 1937, Cohen served as a foreign editor of The Moscow News.

Rose Cohen was executed during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union and posthumously rehabilitated in the Soviet Union in 1956.

Rose Cohen's father, Maurice Cohen, was a tailor who later opened his own business and prospered.

Rose Cohen was the first cousin of Abraham Cohen and the first cousin once removed of Morris Wartski, both through her father's side.

Rose Cohen's education allowed Rose Cohen to get a job at London County Council, where she worked until 1917, and later in the Labour Research Department.

Rose Cohen served as a secretary to Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb.

Rose Cohen was assigned secret missions, which included delivering messages and transferring money to Communist parties.

In 1925, Rose Cohen worked in the Soviet embassy in London and spent several months in Paris on a secret mission for the Comintern, and handled large sums of money for the Communist Party of France.

In 1927, following instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Rose Cohen went to work in Moscow, and in the same year, she joined the Russian Communist Party.

Rose Cohen spent six months that year overseas, traveling to China, Japan, Poland, and Germany on Comintern business.

In 1930, Rose Cohen enrolled at the International Lenin School of the Comintern, and from 1931 she was an employee and later chief of the Foreign Department and the editor of the Moscow Daily News.

In March 1937, Petrovsky was arrested, and Rose Cohen was expelled from the Russian Communist Party.

Rose Cohen was accused of being: "a member of the anti-Soviet organization in the Comintern, spying for Great Britain, and the resident of British intelligence".

Rose Cohen was not given access to defence counsel or witnesses, "in accordance with the Law of 1 December 1934".

Rose Cohen "pleaded not guilty, denied all charges, and refused to confirm her testimony given during the preliminary investigation, claiming it was false".

The British government did not deny rumours that Rose Cohen had taken Soviet citizenship, and had been a citizen of the Soviet Union at the time of her arrest.

Soviet records show that Rose Cohen did not naturalise as a Soviet citizen.

The CPGB opposed efforts by the British government to get Rose Cohen released, describing her arrest as an internal affair of the Soviet Union.

Rose Cohen was posthumously rehabilitated as a victim of political repressions.

Rose Cohen succeeded in getting permission for Alyosha's adoption when she lived with her family in political exile in Tobolsk, Siberia under Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code.