Boris Pilnyak
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Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak was a Russian and Soviet writer who was executed by the Soviet government on false claims of plotting to kill Joseph Stalin and Nikolay Yezhov.
Sitting left to right: Georgy Chulkov, Vikenty Veresaev, Christian Rakovsky, Boris Pilnyak, Aleksandr Voronsky, Petr Oreshin, Karl Radek and Pavel Sakulin. Standing left to right: Ivan Evdokimov, Vasily Lvov-Rogachevsky, Vyacheslav Polonsky, Feodor Gladkov, Mikhail Gerasimov, Abram Ėfros and Isaac Babel.
Victor Serge
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Victor Serge was a Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, poet, historian, journalist, and translator. Serge was a key eyewitness to and participant in the revolutionary movements of the 20th c
Serge in the early 1920s
Mugshot taken by French police, 1912
Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, mid-1920s
Trotsky in the 1930s