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- An Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government, serving as the first head of state of the Russian SFSR as chairman of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, and as a deputy premier of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1926, among other roles.
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev[a] (né Rozenfeld; [b] 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. An Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government, serving as the first head of state of the Russian SFSR as chairman of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, and as a deputy ...
Aug 20, 2024 · Lev Kamenev was an Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great Purge.
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May 23, 2018 · The Russian politician Lev Borisovich Kamenev (1883-1936) was a leader of the prerevolutionary Social Democratic movement, as well as major official in the Soviet government and Communist party after 1917.
- Before The 1917 Revolution
- After The 1917 Revolution
- With Zinoviev and Stalin Against Trotsky
- Break with Stalin
- Second Marriage
- With Trotsky and Zinoviev Against Stalin
- Submission to Stalin
- Trials and Execution
- Legacy
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After returning to Saint Petersburg (the name was changed to Petrograd in 1914) from Siberian exile in mid-March 1917, Kamenev and Central Committee members Joseph Stalin and Matvei Muranov took control of the revived Bolshevik Pravdaand moved it to the Right, with Kamenev formulating a policy of conditional support of the newly formed Russian Prov...
In 1918, Kamenev became chairman of the Moscow Soviet and soon thereafter Lenin's deputy at the Sovnarkom (government) and the Council of Labor and Defense. In March 1919, Kamenev was elected a full member of the first Politburo. His personal relationship with his brother-in-law Trotsky, which was good in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution and du...
During Lenin's illness, Kamenev was the acting Sovnarkom and Politburo chairman. Together with Zinoviev and Joseph Stalin, he formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, and played a key role in the marginalization of Trotsky. The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate selection process in the fall...
With Trotsky on the sidelines, the Zinoviev-Kamenev-Stalin triumvirate finally began to crumble in early 1925 as Stalin turned on his erstwhile supporters. The two sides spent most of the year lining up support behind the scenes. Stalin struck an alliance with the Communist Party theoretician and Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and the Soviet prime ...
Kamenev's first marriage began to disintegrate starting with Kamenev's reputed affair with the British sculptor Clare Frewen Sheridan in 1920. In the late 1920s he left Olga Kameneva for Tatiana Glebova , with whom he had a son, Vladimir Glebov (1929-1994).
During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotsky's supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance, which also incorporated some smaller opposition groups within the Communist Party. The alliance became known as the United Opposition. During a new period of in...
While Trotsky remained firm in his opposition to Stalin after his expulsion from the Party and subsequent exile, Zinoviev and Kamenev capitulated almost immediately and called on their supporters to follow suit. They wrote open letters acknowledging their mistakes and were readmitted to the Communist Party after a six month cooling off period. They...
After the murder of Kirov on December 1, 1934 led to Stalin's Great Purges, Grigory Zinoviev, Kamenev and their closest associates were once again expelled from the Communist Party and arrested in December 1934. They were tried in January 1935 and were forced to admit "moral complicity" in Kirov's assassination. Zinoviev was sentenced to ten years ...
Kamenev's life and legacy ended with his execution by Stalin. He had helped to created the Russian Revolution of 1917 only to fall prey to the state that he had helped to create. Kamenev died not only with fellow communists. After Kamenev's execution, his relatives suffered a similar fate. Kamenev's second son, Yu. L. Kamenev, was executed on Janua...
Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York, Oxford University Press USA, 1990, ISBN 0195055802Evans, David, and Jane Jenkins. Years of Russia and the USSR 1851-1991. London: Hodder Murray, 2001. ISBN 0340789492Kehoe, Elisabeth. The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the English Aristocratic World Into Which They Married. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004, ISBN 0871139243Lenin, Vladimir. Collected Works. Volume XX, International Publishers, 1929, ISBN 1417915773Lev Kamenev was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician who was one of the seven members of the first Politburo alongside Vladimir Lenin, Grigory Zinoviev, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Sokolnikov, and Andrei Bubnov.
May 22, 2015 · Lev Kamenev was a leading Bolshevik who followed Lenin after the Social Democrats split in 1903. Kamenev like so many other ‘old school Bolsheviks’ paid the price when Joseph Stalin’s purges took place in the mid-1930’s. Kamenev was born in Moscow on July 16th 1883.
KAMENEV, LEV (pseudonym for Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld ; 1883–1936), Soviet state and party activist. He was born in Moscow to a father who was an engineer and a Russian mother. Kamenev joined the Social Democratic Party in 1901, while studying law at Moscow University, and in 1903 the Bolshevik faction. Until 1914 he worked in the foreign ...
