Grigory Zinoviev
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1917 and a leading figure in the ea
Zinoviev c. 1920
Elizavetagrad, a city of about 60,000 people, during the first years of the 20th century.
Zinoviev's Okhrana mugshot from the time of his arrest, March 1908.
![Between the 1930 American (L) and 1931 British edition (R), Zinoviev's name was erased from the pamphlet Socialism and War [1915], co-written with Len](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/SocialismAndWar-covers.jpg/500px-SocialismAndWar-covers.jpg)
Between the 1930 American (L) and 1931 British edition (R), Zinoviev's name was erased from the pamphlet Socialism and War [1915], co-written with Lenin.
Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Grigory Zinoviev
…of Sergei Kirov and was sentenced to ten years in prison. While imprisoned, Zinoviev was further accused of treason and other offenses during the Great Purge, and was executed after a show trial in August 1936. Grigory Zinoviev was born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyshelsky (ru: Овсей-Гершон Аронович…
Residents searching for relatives among the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev