Title of Štajner's book "A Hand from the Grave " comes from Miroslav Krleža who mentions Štajner in his "Diaries" and compares him to the biblical Lazarus who rises from the grave.
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After an illegal communist printing house in Zagreb where Štajner worked was searched by the police in 1931, he fled Yugoslavia, visiting Paris, Vienna, and Berlin before finally settling in the Soviet Union in 1932 where he worked in the Comintern publishing house in Moscow.
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From January 1922 until 1931, he lived in Zagreb where he ran an illegal communist printing house, and was helping local CPY cell.
Karlo Štajner, Yugoslavian communist activist and author of Austrian origin.