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Grigory Zinoviev

Also known as Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Ukrainian revolutionary (1883-1936)

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Grigory Zinoviev was a Ukrainian revolutionary and prominent Soviet politician who played a significant role in the early years of the Soviet Union, particularly as a close ally of Lenin. He is historically important because his political rise and fall under Stalin illustrates the power struggles and purges that shaped Soviet history in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Grigory Zinoviev is referenced by 579 other articles, and connects out to Saint Petersburg, Kropyvnytskyi and Bolsheviks.

It sits within the topics 1883 births, 1936 deaths and Candidates of the Politburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Kropyvnytskyi
Place of death: Moscow
Spouse: Sarra Ravich
Occupation: politician
Educated at: University of Bern
Employer: Kommunist
Political party: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik)
Languages spoken: Russian
Participant in: 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party
Field of work: labor movement
Image: Grigory Zinoviev circa 1920.jpg
Work location: Soviet Union

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date of birth: 1883-09-11
date of death: 1936-08-25
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cause of death: gunshot wound
place of burial: Donskoe cemetery
manner of death: capital punishment
birth name: Овсей-Гершон Аронович Радомысльский
name in native language: Григо́рий Евсе́евич Зино́вьев
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (born Ovsei-Gershen Aronovich Radomyshelsky; 23 September [O.S. 11 September] 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1917 and a leading figure in the early Soviet government. He served as chairman of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1919 to 1926.

Zinoviev joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901 and sided with Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks in the party's 1903 split, forging a close political relationship with him. After participating in the failed Revolution of 1905, he served as Lenin's aide-de-camp in Europe. Zinoviev returned to Russia after the February Revolution of 1917 and joined with Lev Kamenev in opposing Lenin's "April Theses" and later the armed seizure of power which became the October Revolution. He lost the trust of Lenin, who began relying on Leon Trotsky. Zinoviev was nevertheless elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet and the Comintern, and a full member of the Politburo in 1921.

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