Editing Grigory Zinoviev

At the 7th Congress of the Bolshevik Party in April 1917, Zinoviev opposed Lenin and called for the party to remain in the [[Zimmerwald Conference]] instead of forming [[Communist International (1919–1943)|a new international]]. In October 1917, Zinoviev and Kamenev voted against the [[Russian revolution of 1917|October Revolution]]<ref name=":3" /> and believed a [[proletarian revolution]] was not possible in Russia. The two then informed the Provisional Government about the Bolshevik's intent to stage an uprising through a Menshevik newspaper. Upon their actions, Lenin dubbing them strikebreakers and "blacklegs"<ref name=":2">{{Citation|author=Vladimir Lenin|year=November 1, 1927|title=Letter To The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.)|title-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Letter_To_The_Central_Committee_Of_The_R.S.D.L.P.(B.)|chapter=|chapter-url=|quote=My answer to this threat is that I shall go the limit, I shall win freedom of speech for myself before the workers, and I shall, at whatever cost, brand the blackleg Zinoviev as a blackleg. My answer to the threat of a split is to declare war to a finish, war for the expulsion of both blacklegs from the Party.|mia=}}</ref>, demanded their expulsion from the Party<ref name=":3" />

Just after the October Revolution, Zinoviev, alongside Rykov, Shlyapnikov and others, called for the formation of an all-socialist government that would include the deposed [[Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries|SRs]] and [[Mensheviks]].<ref name=":3" /> When the Central Committee rejected their counter-revolutionary proposal, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov and Milyutin, resigned from the body. At the [[Congress of the Toilers of the East]] in 1920, he said that [[land reform]] was the most important issue in [[Central Asia]].<ref name=":02">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2017|title=Red Star over the Third World|chapter=Soviet Asia|page=64|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacecu7gb2ei65us6ip3r2ugcgkblneqcftbm456mb6bzvprkbqk55qm?filename=Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20Red%20Star%20Over%20the%20Third%20World-LeftWord%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=New Delhi|publisher=LeftWord Books}}</ref>

 

 

Certain notorious opportunists within the Party—Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov, Shlyapnikov and others—also made a sally against the Soviet power. They demanded the formation of an "all-Socialist government" to include Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, who had just been overthrown by the October Revolution.|mia=}}</ref>

In 1926, [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]] and Zinoviev formed an [[Left Opposition|anti-Party bloc]] and rejected [[democratic centralism]]. The Central Committee expelled them from the party in November 1927.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Joseph Stalin]]|year=1939|title=History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)|chapter=The Bolshevik Party in the Struggle for the Socialist Industrialization of the Country|chapter-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:History_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union#The_Bolshevik_party_in_the_struggle_for_the_socialist_industrialization_of_the_country_(1926%E2%80%941929)|mia=}}</ref> Zinoviev organized the murder of [[Sergei Kirov]] in 1934.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Joseph Stalin]]|year=1939|title=History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)|chapter=The Bolshevik Party in the Struggle for the Collectivization of Agriculture|chapter-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:History_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union#The_Bolshevik_party_in_the_struggle_for_the_collectivization_of_agriculture_(1930%E2%80%941934)|mia=}}</ref>