Grigory Zinoviev
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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 (Comintern) from 1919 to 1926.
Zinoviev in 1920
Zinoviev in 1908
Grigory Zinoviev, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, among the Political Commissars in 1918
Grigory Zinoviev, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, addresses the crowd on the first International Workers' Day after the October Uprising (the Bolshevik Revolution). Date: 1 May 1918.
Old Bolsheviks
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The Old Bolsheviks, also called the Old Bolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many Old Bolsheviks became leading politicians and bureaucrats in the Soviet Union and the ruling Communist Party. While some died over the years from natural causes, many were removed from power, imprisoned in gulags or executed in the late 1930s, as a result of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin.
Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991) joined the Bolsheviks in 1911, survived Stalin's purge, and died only five months before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The founders of the Bolshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP (1903)
Geneva Group of Bolsheviks (1904–1905)