Ivan Smirnov (politician)
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Ivan Nikitich Smirnov was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and Communist Party functionary. A prominent member of the Left Opposition, he allegedly led a secret Trotskyist oppositi
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Smirnov's Okhrana file
Caricature of Smirnov from the series "Your People's Commissars at Home" c. 1923–1927
Members of Trotsky's Left Opposition, 1927. Smirnov is the second to the left, seated next to Trotsky
Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva was a Russian revolutionary, prominent Bolshevik party member, Cheka officer, and Soviet government official, who supported Leon Trotsky's attempt to democratize the party
Ivan Smirnov (politician)
…Committee and was a member of the Siberian bureau of the Party. Smirnov was known to have had close ties with the Cheka. Smirnov's second wife, Varvara Yakovleva, was a Cheka officer and the deputy head of the Petrograd Cheka. Smirnov administered massacres of armed rebellious peasants in Tyumen and the Altai…
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