Word: zinoviev
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...plates include a photographic copy showing the Russian text of the notorious Zinoviev Letter, supposedly written by G. Zinoviev, president of the Communist Comintern...
...major arguments pointing to forgery has been the absence of a Russian text of the Zinoviev letter. The British government "did not say where they got the letter or whether they received it in English or Russian," Butler said...
...Zinoviev Denies...
...clearly rejected the Bolsheviks in favor of the liberals. Lenin simply sent troops to disperse the assembly. Thereafter the "Little Robespierre," as Trotsky called him, launched his own Terror. The Czar and his family were executed, and Lenin systematically began the liquidation of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Comrade Zinoviev cried triumphantly: "The capitalists killed separate individuals. But we kill whole classes." The Cheka (secret police) was organized. Sometimes, mistakes were made, but from Lenin's point of view they were just as good as deliberate acts. At one party meeting, Lenin passed a note to his Cheka chief...
...prone to became evident even before Lenin's death in 1924. The right wing of the Central Committee was led by Bukharin, who wanted an even wider application of the NEP; the center was dourly controlled by Stalin; and the left followed Trotsky and the flamboyant Zinoviev. When the smoke cleared, Trotsky was again in exile, Zinoviev and Bukharin were dead, and Stalin was in power...