Lenin's Testament
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Lenin's Testament is a document dictated by Vladimir Lenin in late 1922 and early 1923, during and after his suffering of multiple strokes. In the testament, Lenin proposed changes to the structure of
Lenin in 1920
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Georgy Pyatakov
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Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov was a Ukrainian revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was a leading Bolshevik in Ukraine during and after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Lenin's Testament
…the structure of the Soviet governing bodies; sensing his impending death, he also criticised Bolshevik leaders Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Bukharin, Pyatakov, and crucially Stalin. He warned of the possibility of a split developing in the party leadership between Trotsky and Stalin if proper measures were…
Pyatakov in 1922
Pyatakov after his arrest in 1915
Pyatakov in 1916
The recuperating Vladimir Ulyanov with Georgy Pyatakov, a future leader of the Left Opposition, in Gorky, 1922