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Grigory Zinoviev

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What is the Zinoviev Letter? | Gill Bennett

 

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Grigory Zinoviev

 

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Trotsky In Mexico Talks On Moscow Trials (1938)

 

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Soviet Traitors On Trial

 

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The Zinoviev Letter Today | Gill Bennett

Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev, born Hirsch Apfelbaum, known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.
  • Personal 

  • Before the 1917 Revolution (1901–17) 

  • 1917 

  • The Civil War (1918–20) 

  • Rise to the top (1921–23) 

  • With Stalin and Kamenev against Trotsky (1923–24) 

  • Break with Stalin (1925) 

  • With Trotsky and Kamenev against Stalin (1926–27) 

  • Submission to Stalin (1928–34) 

  • Show trials (1935–36) 

  • "Zinoviev Letter"