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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, revolutionary who worked closely with Lenin in the Bolshevik Party before the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a central figure in the Communist Party leadership in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. He later was a victim of Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge.

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.

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. Source for information on Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich: Encyclopedia of Russian History dictionary.

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. An Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a prominent figure in the leadership of the early Soviet Union, and served as chairman of the Communist International from 1919 to 1926.

ZINOVIEV, GRIGORI YEVSEYEVICH (1883–1936), principal architect of the Communist International and its first chairman. He was Bolshevism's leading advocate of world revolution. He was born Grigori Yevseyevich Radomyslski in Yelizavetgrad (now Kirovograd), Ukraine.