Follow Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev through 104 dated historical records for Russia.
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
At the Vth Comintern Congress Zinoviev condemns Marxist philosopher Georg Luk css History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923 after his involvement in B‚la Kuns Hungarian Soviet Republic, and Karl Korschs Marxism and Philosophy
Role range: 1917-1991
Delivers the Central Committee's reports to the XIIth and XIIIth Party Congresses in 1923 and 1924 respectively, something that Lenin had previously done
Role range: 1917-1918
An alleged letter sent to British Communists helps defeat MacDonalds Government
Role range: 1917-1991
Appointed Member of Triumvirate. Allies with Stalin & Kamanev in forming a ruling triumvirate after the death of Lenin
Role range: 1917-1991
Within weeks of the Congress, Stalin wrestled control of the Leningrad party organisation and Government from Zinoviev and had him dismissed from all regional posts, leaving only the Comintern as a potential power base for Zinoviev
Role range: 1917-1991
With only the Leningrad delegation behind them, Zinoviev and Kamenev found themselves in a tiny minority and were soundly defeated.
Role range: 1917-1991
Within weeks of the Congress, Stalin wrestled control of the Leningrad party organisation and Government from Zinoviev and had him dismissed from all regional posts, leaving only the Comintern as a potential power base for Zinoviev
Role range: 1917-1991
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
Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenins widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Grigory Sokolnikov, the Soviet Commissar of Finance and non-voting Politburo member. With Trotsky finally on the sidelines, the Zinoviev-Kamenev-Stalin triumvirate began to crumble in early 1925. With only the Leningrad delegation behind them, Zinoviev and Kamenev found themselves in a tiny minority and were soundly defeated
Role range: 1917-1991
Zinoviev is dismissed from the Politburo after a tumultuous Central Committee meeting in July 1926
Role range: 1917-1991
Zinoviev himself is dismissed in 1926 after falling out of favor with Stalin
Role range: 1917-1991
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
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
Role range: 1917-1991
Expelled from the Communist Party
Role range: 1917-1991
Recants his opposition to Stalin & is allowed back into the Communist Party
Role range: 1917-1991
Expelled for a 2nd time from the Communist Party
Role range: 1917-1991
Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov. Tried in secret & sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. 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
Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc"
Role range: 1917-1991
Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc"
Role range: 1917-1991
Death of Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, executed
Role range: 1917-1991
Found guilty of charges during a show trial & shot
Role range: 1917-1991
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
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
Accusations are made against Zinoviev for his life during a show trial
Role range: 1917-1991
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