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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.

(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.

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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. Alexander Kerensky