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== Early Life ==
== Early Life ==
Grigory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, in the Russian Empire (modern Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine).
Grigory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, in the Russian Empire (modern Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) to a family of jewish dairy farmers who educated him at home.
 
Zinoviev joined the RSDLP in 1901.


== Pre-revolution ==
== Pre-revolution ==

Revision as of 02:03, 10 April 2023

Grigory Zinoviev

Григорий Зиновьев
Born
Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky

23 September 1883
Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire
Died25 August 1936
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution
Political orientationTrotskyism


Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (23 September 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Soviet politician and Trotskyist. He opposed Lenin as early as 1910[1] and was executed in 1936 following the Moscow trials.

Early Life

Grigory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, in the Russian Empire (modern Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) to a family of jewish dairy farmers who educated him at home.

Zinoviev joined the RSDLP in 1901.

Pre-revolution

In January 1910, against Lenin's wishes, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Rykov convened a Plenum of the Central Committee of the RSDLP. Because many Bolshevik members of the CC had been arrested, the Plenum passed some anti-Leninist resolutions. Zinoviev disagreed with Lenin's decision to denounce otzovism and liquidationism.[1]

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 a new international. In October 1917, Zinoviev and Kamenev voted against the October Revolution and believed a proletarian revolution was not possible in Russia. Lenin then proposed to expel them from the party.[2]

Post-revolution

Just after the October Revolution, Zinoviev called for the formation of an all-socialist government that would include the deposed SRs and Mensheviks.[2]

Zinoviev believed Russia was not developed enough to build socialism. Following the 14th Congress of the CPSU in 1925, he called a meeting of the Leningrad Provincial Committee of the YCL, which refused to follow the Congress's decision promoting industrialization.[3]

In 1926, Trotsky and Zinoviev formed an anti-Party bloc and rejected democratic centralism. The Central Committee expelled them from the party in November 1927.[4] Zinoviev organized the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934.[5]

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