AOL Web Search

Lev Kamenev, original name Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld, in full Lev Borisovich Kamenev, (born July 18, 1883, Moscow, Russia—died August 24, 1936, Moscow), Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917).

Lev Kamenev (1883-1936) was a long-serving Bolshevik revolutionary and, later, an important Soviet political leader. Leo or Lev Rosenfeld was born in Moscow, the son of a Jewish father and a Russian Orthodox mother. He was educated in Georgia and then later at Moscow University, where he became interested in Marxism and radical politics.

KAMENEV, LEV BORISOVICH. (1883 – 1836), Bolshevik leader, Soviet state official, purged and executed under Stalin. Born July 18, 1883, in Moscow and raised in Tbilisi, Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld entered the revolutionary movement while studying law at Moscow University. In 1901 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) and ...

Lev Borisovich Kamenev ( Russian: Лев Борисович Каменев, born Rosenfeld, Розенфельд) (July 18 [O.S. July 6] 1883 – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and a founding member (1919) and later chairman (1923-1924) of the ruling Politburo.

With the help of a mild-mannered Bolshevik named Lev Kamenev, Stalin quickly wrested control of the Party mouthpiece, Pravda, from the younger, less experienced Vyacheslav Molotov, and proceeded ...

Lev Kamenev (a.k.a. Lev Rosenfeld) A prominent member of the Bolshevik Party who initially resisted Lenin’s call to hold a revolution sooner rather than later. After the revolution, Kamenev went on to serve in the Soviet government but was executed during Josef Stalin ’s purges of the 1930 s.

July 15, 2018 A portrait of Djakhan Abidova, a woman in the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, deliberately damaged as part of an effort to erase her in the nineteen-thirties. Photograph by Samuel Cole...

Lev Kamenev was a leading Bolshevik who followed Lenin after the Social Democrats split in 1903. Kamenev like so many other ‘old school Bolsheviks’ paid the price when Joseph Stalin’s purges took place in the mid-1930’s. Kamenev was born in Moscow on July 16th 1883.