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Grigory Zinoviev

Ukrainian revolutionary (1883-1936) · Russia · Activists · Died at 52

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He ran the Comintern and stood close to Lenin in the revolution's first hours, then spent a decade losing ground to Stalin - first as ally, then opponent, then supplicant - until a show trial ended it in 1936.

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A life in dates

1936Died25 August 19361922“We were indeed splitters at the beginning of the work of the Communist International. We could not have done otherwise.”In their wordsComrade Zinoviev’s Speech on the United Front (1922)

1921“There is no greater honor than membership in the Communist Party.”In their wordsThe Russian Communist Party During Four Years of Revolution (1921)

1919“Take a walk through the streets and market places of Petrograd and you can really see that every stone is a piece of Russian revolutionary history.”In their wordsThe Cradle of the Revolution (1919)

1916“The population of the colonies means nothing but beasts of burden to the gentlemen imperialists. ...”In their wordsWars - Defensive and Aggressive (1916)

1883Born11 September 1883

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  1. We were indeed splitters at the beginning of the work of the Communist International. We could not have done otherwise.

    1922, Comrade Zinoviev’s Speech on the United Front (1922), Own words

  2. There is no greater honor than membership in the Communist Party.

    1921, The Russian Communist Party During Four Years of Revolution (1921), Own words

  3. Take a walk through the streets and market places of Petrograd and you can really see that every stone is a piece of Russian revolutionary history.

    1919, The Cradle of the Revolution (1919), Own words

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About this person

Grigory Zinoviev joined the Bolsheviks in 1903 and became Lenin's aide-de-camp after the failed 1905 uprising, spending years in European exile. He returned in 1917 and opposed the October Revolution alongside Lev Kamenev, costing him Lenin's trust even as he rose to chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, the Comintern in 1919, and the Politburo in 1921. After Lenin's death in 1924 he formed a troika with Kamenev and Stalin against Trotsky, but by 1926 had switched sides into the United Opposition - a move that got him stripped of his posts and expelled from the party. He submitted to Stalin, rejoined, was expelled again in 1932 over the Ryutin affair, and rejoined once more in 1933. A year later he was sentenced to ten years for alleged complicity in Sergei Kirov's assassination; the Great Purge pulled him back for a show trial on treason charges, and he was executed in August 1936.

Country
Russia
Category
Activists
Type
Activist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1883 to 1936 · aged 52

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