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Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936) was a founding member of the Bolsheviks. A close ally of Vladimir Lenin, he participated in party decision-making at the highest levels. Zinoviev was born Hirsch Apfelbaum in Yelizavetgrad, now Kropyvnytskyi, a city in central Ukraine. His parents were both Jewish dairy farmers who home-schooled Hirsch while ...

ZINOVIEV, GRIGORY YEVSEYEVICH. (1883 – 1936), Bolshevik revolutionary leader and associate of Lenin who after 1917 became first an ally, then rival, of Stalin and later fell victim to the Great Purge. Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev was born as Yevsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky in Yelizavetgrad (later renamed Zinoviesk, now Kirovohrad ...

The History Learning Site, 22 May 2015. 15 May 2023. Gregory Zinoviev was a leading member of the Bolshevik Party. Zinoviev was a loyal follower of Vladimir Lenin but after Lenin’s death and the rise of Joseph Stalin to power, his days were numbered by a man who could not tolerate anyone appearing to be the merest of rivals to him and ...

Zinoviev was the Bolshevik theoretician who examined the prewar bureaucratic degeneration of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) that would culminate in its capitulation to imperialism. 8. Zinoviev also joined Lenin in World War I in the theoretical work of updating war policy for the imperialist era.

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev was born on 23 September 1883 in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire. Though his birth name was Hirsch Apfelbaum, he was also known as Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky. His parents were Jewish dairy farmers and belonged to the lower middle class. Hence, he was home schooled and trained in farming.

Zinoviev. On this date in 1936, one of the oldest of them, Grigory Zinoviev, was shot with his longtime ally Lev Kamenev. These guys had been major movers and shakers among the early Bolsheviki, adherents of Lenin during the first decade of the century when the aspiration for a Communist Russia seemed hopelessly far-fetched.

The Zinoviev letter was a fake document published and sensationalised by the British Daily Mail newspaper four days before the general election of October 1924. The letter purported to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, the head of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), ordering it ...