Lev Kamenev
Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883-1936) · Russia · Activists · Died at 53
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Something wrong?He helped Lenin seize power, ruled beside Stalin when Lenin fell ill, then watched the General Secretary turn the party machinery against him. Kamenev went from acting premier to show trial defendant in a decade.
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Born in Moscow in 1883 to a family steeped in revolutionary politics, Lev Kamenev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901 and sided with Lenin's Bolsheviks after the 1903 split. Arrested repeatedly, he participated in the failed 1905 revolution before moving abroad as one of Lenin's close associates. He opposed Lenin's April Theses and the plan for armed seizure in 1917, but when the October Revolution succeeded he took senior posts including chairman of the Moscow Soviet and deputy premier. After Lenin's stroke in May 1922, Kamenev formed a triumvirate with Zinoviev and Stalin that ran Soviet Russia; when Lenin suffered a second stroke that December, Kamenev became acting premier and led the Politburo until the leader's death. By 1925 Stalin had eclipsed him entirely - offices stripped in 1926, expelled from the party in 1927. Arrested in 1934 over the Kirov assassination, he became the chief defendant in the Trial of the Sixteen and was executed in August 1936.
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