
Kamenev was one of the initial leaders of the Russian Communist Party and the Soviet state; a prominent representative of the new opposition within the Communist Party (Bolshevik). Born on July 18, 1883, to an engineer’s family in Moscow, his former surname was Rosenfeld, due to his Jewish origin…
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