Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Soc
Kirov c. 1930s
Kirov (right) with Felix Dzerzhinsky in Leningrad, 1926
Kirov at the 17th Congress of the Communist Party in 1934
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
Sergei Kirov
…carried out that night. The Soviet government, led by Stalin, stated that their investigation proved that the assassin was acting on behalf of a secret Zinovievist group. Commissar Borisov died the day after Kirov's assassination, allegedly falling from a moving truck while riding with a group of NKVD agents…
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.