Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , born OvseiGershon Aronovich Radomyslsky, known also under the name Hirsch Apfelbaum , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.
Gregory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire , to Jewish dairy farmers, who educated him at home. Between 1923 and 1935 the city was known as Zinovyevsk. Gregory Zinoviev was known in early life under the names of Apfelbaum or Radomyslovsky and later adopted several designations, such as Shatski, Grigoriev, Grigori and Zinoviev, by the two last of which he is most frequently called. He studied philosophy, literature and history. He became interested in politics, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901. He was a member of its Bolshevik faction from the time of its creation in 1903. Between 1903 and the fall of the Russian Empire in February 1917, he was a leading Bolshevik and one of Vladimir Lenins closest associates, working both within Russia and abroad as circumstances permitted. He was elected to the RSDLPs Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenins supporters and Alexander Bogdanovs follo
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