Alexander Shliapnikov
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Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov was a Russian communist revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union leader. He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader o
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Shliapnikov c. 1925
Alexander Shliapnikov (on left) with Leonid Krasin in 1924
Leonid Krasin
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Leonid Borisovich Krasin was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first Soviet ambassador to France. A year
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…participate in economic decision-making was a step away from the goals of the 1917 revolution. Opposition leader Alexander Shliapnikov (on left) with Leonid Krasin in 1924 Shliapnikov became leader of the Workers' Opposition movement inside the Russian Communist Party. Alexandra Kollontai was a mentor and advocate…
Krasin in 1924
Leonid Krasin in Baku around 1903
Leonid Krasin in 1920