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Zinoviev, Grigory

1883-1936

The first chairman of the Executive Committee of the Communist International; one of the earliest leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; one of the main representatives of the opposition within the Communist Party (Bolshevik). Born on September 23, 1883, to a dairy farmer’s family in Ukraine, the family name was Radomysisky, a Jewish family…

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