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
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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
Varvara Yakovleva (politician)
…she converted to Bolshevism. Shternberg died in 1920. They had a daughter, Irina Pavlovna Yakovleva (1915–1987). In 1921, Varvara Yakovleva married Ivan Smirnov, but this marriage disintegrated after she broke with the Left Opposition in October 1927. After the United Opposition was banned from the Communist…
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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