Lev Borisovich Kamenev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a deputy premier of the S
Kamenev, c. 1920s
Kamenev at the Brest-Litovsk in December 1917 (right first).
Kamenev and Lenin at Gorki, 1922
Lev Kamenev, Director of the Lenin Institute of the Central Committee 1923
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
Lev Kamenev
…upon returning to Saint Petersburg and exiled to Siberia. He returned after the February Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the monarchy, and joined Grigory Zinoviev in opposing Lenin's "April Theses" and an armed seizure of power within the former Russian Empire. Nevertheless, when Lenin came to power in Russia…
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 Lenin.