Lev Borisovich Kamenev Biography and Timeline

SPD.

Joins the Russian Social Democratic Party

Bolshevik Duma Arrest

Is arrested with other Bolshevik Duma deputies.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1914-1914

Arrest of Lev Borisovich Kamenev

Arrested after supervising publication of Pravda for 1 yr

Bolshevik Party

Arrested after supervising publication of Pravda for 1 yr

Pravda

Arrested after supervising publication of Pravda for 1 yr

Bolshevik Party

Exiled to Siberia, 1915-1917

Exile of Lev Borisovich Kamenev

Exiled to Siberia, 1915-1917

Return from Siberia

Returns from exile and influences Bolshevik policy in Petrograd.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Return to Petrograd

Returns from exile and influences Bolshevik Soviet tactics.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Bolshevik Soviet Line

Debates Lenin's radical Soviet policy.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Supports caution as unrest grows among soldiers and workers.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Calls for restraint inside the Bolshevik leadership.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Is exposed to arrest as the government moves against Bolsheviks.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Faces arrest as government repression continues.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Is arrested as part of the post-July repression.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Bolshevik Majority

Bolsheviks win major influence in the Petrograd Soviet.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Bolshevik Majority

Kamenev supports increasing Bolshevik influence in the Petrograd Soviet.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Bolshevik Party

Circulates a letter to Bolshevik organisations arguing against "armed insurrection"

Role range: 1917-1918

Coup

Circulates a letter to Bolshevik organisations arguing against "armed insurrection"

Role range: 1917-1918

Resignation of Lev Borisovich Kamenev

Kamenev & Zinoviev resign from the Central Committee. An injunction is issued against Kamenev reventing further pronouncements

Role range: 1917-1918

October Revolution

Zinoviev, Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Vladimir Milyutin, and Victor Nogin resign from the Central Committee on November 4, 1917 (Julian calendar)

Role range: 1917-1918

October Revolution

Lenin wrote a proclamation calling Zinoviev and Kamenev "deserters", he never forgot their behavior, eventually making an ambiguous reference to their "October episode" in his Testament

Role range: 1917-1918

Politburo

Appointed Member of Politburo

Role range: 1917-1918

Politburo

Appointed Member of Politburo

Chairman

Appointed Chairman of the Moscow Soviet

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1919-1925

Kronstadt Rebellion

Supports party unity against the rebellion.

Role range: 1917-1922 – 1921-1921

Bolshevik Party

Decides SRs are guilty of trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks in 1919

Role range: 1917-1991

Coup

Decides SRs are guilty of trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks in 1919

Role range: 1917-1991

Trial

Holds SR death sentences open & have them executed if they undermine the Communists. Decides SRs are guilty of trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks in 1919

Role range: 1917-1991

Congress of Communist Party, 13th

Zinoviev and Kamenev helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central Committee at the XIIIth Party Congress in May-June 1924 during the first Lenins Testament controversy

Role range: 1917-1991

Ruling Triumvirate

Appointed Member of Triumvirate ruling Russia after Lenins death

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1924-1924

Congress of Communist Party, 14th

Zinoviev was re-elected to the Politburo, but his ally Kamenev was demoted from a full member to a non-voting member and Sokolnikov was dropped altogether, while Stalin had more of his allies elected to the Politburo

Role range: 1917-1991

Dismissal

Dismissed from the Politburo during Stalins purge of the Opposition

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1926

United Opposition

During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotskys supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance known as the United Opposition

Role range: 1917-1991

Ambassador

Appointed Ambassador of Italy

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1926-1927

Purge

When the XVth Party Congress made Opposition views incompatible with membership in the Communist Party, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters capitulated and renounced their alliance with the Left Opposition. Leading supporters, from Kamenev down, were expelled in December 1927 by the XVth Party Congress, which paved the way for mass expulsions of rank and file oppositionists as well as internal exile of opposition leaders in early 1928

Role range: 1917-1991

Trial

Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov. Tried for a 2nd time in secret & sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. Forced to admit the "moral & political responsibility" for Kirovs assassination. Exonerated for the assassination of Kirov

Role range: 1917-1991

Trial

Secretly put on trial by Stalin for his life

Role range: 1917-1991

Bolshevik Party

During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership

Role range: 1917-1991

Trial

During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership

Role range: 1917-1991