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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (born Ovsei-Gershen Aronovich Radomyshelsky; – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1904year
Genevaattested“One who knew Zinoviev from his university days was Anatoly Lunacharsky, who moved to Geneva in 1904 to join the Bolshevik editorial team located there.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1912year
Parisattested“Lenin found working in Paris to be difficult, with pervasive police surveillance and a cumbersome national library, so in the summer of 1912 he and his wife Krupskaya, together with Zinoviev and his wife Lilina, traveled to Krakow, Galic…”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1912year
Krakowattested“Lenin found working in Paris to be difficult, with pervasive police surveillance and a cumbersome national library, so in the summer of 1912 he and his wife Krupskaya, together with Zinoviev and his wife Lilina, traveled to Krakow, Galic…”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
January 1924month
Sovietattested“Zinoviev was one of the most influential figures in the Soviet leadership during Lenin's final illness in 1922–23 and immediately after his death in January 1924.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
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1902year
Switzerlandmentioned“Zinoviev was admitted to Switzerland's largest college, the University of Bern, in the fall of 1902, joining the mass of German and Russian students who accounted for about half the university's approximately 1,000 member student body.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
November 1902month
Bernmentioned“Ulyanov (Lenin) for the first time in November 1902 when the latter was in Bern to deliver a lecture, helping to cement his affiliation to the Iskrists.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1903year
Russiamentioned“Zinoviev's first mission on behalf of the Bolsheviks came in the fall of 1903, when he was dispatched to Russia to attempt to build a party organization there.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
January 1905month
Bernmentioned“In January 1905, Zinoviev, his wife, and five others exited the joint Menshevik–Bolshevik social democratic organization in Bern and established a support group for Vperëd, the radical newspaper Lenin had launched after leaving the Mensh…”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1908year
Parismentioned“Lenin and Zinoviev became close in this interval and at the end of 1908 Zinoviev and Lilina and their child followed Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya in a coordinated relocation to Paris.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
August 1908month
Genevamentioned“With his underground position deemed compromised, Zinoviev was called to Geneva by Lenin in August 1908, where his wife gave birth to their first child, a son.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
August 1914month
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeriamentioned“The outbreak of World War I in August 1914 dramatically changed the situation for the Russian emigrant community in Galicia.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1915year
Bernmentioned“By 1915 only the released Lenin and Zinoviev remained, safely relocated back to Bern in neutral Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1915year
Zimmerwaldmentioned“The summer of 1915 was also largely concerned with the organization of the anti-war Zimmerwald Conference, held in early September in Zimmerwald, Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1916year
Russiamentioned“Among her other duties, Krupskaya maintained the official party contact list of organizers in Russia, a register which included 130 names in 1916.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
1917year
Zurichmentioned“There I found already a telegram from Vladimir Ilyich, ordering me to come 'immediately' to Zurich." A committee of the Duma had decided to take power the evening of February 27 (March 12 n.s.), 1917, but it took three more days for a pr…”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
September 1920month
Bakumentioned“It was in this capacity he presided over the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920 and gave his famous four-hour speech in German at the Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in Octo…”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
September 1920month
Halle, Saxony-Anhaltmentioned“It was in this capacity he presided over the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920 and gave his famous four-hour speech in German at the Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in Octo…”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
25 October 1924exact date
United Kingdommentioned“Zinoviev was the alleged author of the "Zinoviev Letter" which caused a sensation in the United Kingdom when published on 25 October 1924, four days before a general election.”source: Wikipedia: Grigory Zinoviev
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