“Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.”
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Leonid Krasin
Leonid Borisovich Krasin was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first Soviet ambassador to France. A year later, he left Paris to become ambassador to London, where he remained until his death. He was an early and close associate of Vladimir Lenin and his financier and the first finance wizard of the Comm…
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business · Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and diplomat (1870–1926) · diplomat · journalist · politician · businessperson · engineer · revolutionary · also Leonid Krasin, Leonid Borisovich Krasin, Krasin
Born 15 July 1870 · Died 24 November 1926 · Q373421
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2026· 1 entry
2000· 1 entry
Rubles per month to support the Bolsheviks and for other needs
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1953· 1 entry
Was largely omitted from the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet government
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1928· 1 entry
That Krasin organised the bank robberies conducted by Bolsheviks to raise funds, and participated in planning the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, in Yerevan Square, during which forty people were killed and fifty injured
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1926· 1 entry
Died 1926-11-24.
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1924· 3 entries
Became the first Soviet ambassador to France
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Krasin was elected to the Communist Party's Central Committee, an office he held until his death in 1926
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“The Immortalization of Lenin”
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1921· 1 entry
Established the second Soviet overseas bank as the Commercial Bank for Northern Europe (French: Banque commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord) or BCEN-Eurobank
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1918· 1 entry
Returned to the fold and rejoined the Bolsheviks
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1917· 1 entry
And one in 1976) commemorated Krasin
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1912· 1 entry
Was appointed manager of their Moscow office, and in 1914 was made managing director of the Russian subsidiary, based in Saint Petersburg
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1908· 1 entry
Krasin was arrested in Russian-controlled Finland and held in Vyborg prison for 30 days
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1906· 1 entry
Was made under Krasin's direction
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1904· 1 entry
Appears to have known nothing about them
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1903· 1 entry
The RSDLP split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions; Krasin supported the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, and was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee
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1900· 1 entry
Krasin moved to Baku on the Caspian Sea, where he worked as an engineer in a large electric-power plant, and played an important role in the electrification of the Baku oilfields
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1893· 1 entry
Krasin visited Leo Tolstoy, the author of War and Peace, who lived nearby, but, according to Krasin's wife, Liubov, who was present, they argued so furiously about revolutionary politics that Tolstoy "began to stamp with
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1892· 1 entry
Because of his link with Brusnev, and taken to Moscow, where he spent ten months in prison
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1891· 1 entry
For taking part in a student demonstration
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1887· 1 entry
Krasin enrolled at the Petersburg Technological Institute, to study chemistry
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-07-15.
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