During perestroika, Kamenev, Zinoviev and his co-defendants were formally rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a deputy premier of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1926.
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culture · Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883–1936) · writer · politician · revolutionary · also Lev Kamenev, Lev Borisovich Kamenev, Leon Kamenev, Kamenev
Born 18 July 1883 · Died 25 August 1936 · Q165854
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During perestroika, Kamenev, Zinoviev and his co-defendants were formally rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union
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“The Prevention of Literature,”
Died 1936-08-25.
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Kamenev was arrested in response to allegations of complicity in Sergei Kirov's assassination and sentenced to ten years in prison
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Of rank-and-file Oppositionists, as well as sending prominent Left Oppositionists into internal exile
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Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1926–1926).
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Before being expelled from the party altogether in 1927
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Career landmark: president of the Council of Labour and Defence of the USSR (1924–1926).
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Career landmark: Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1923–1926).
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And noted that Kamenev lacked any personal desire to become Chairman upon Lenin's death
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As a result of his reputed affair with the British sculptor Clare Sheridan, ended in divorce in 1928 when he left Olga Kameneva and married Tatiana Glebova
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1919–1925).
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Was elected as a full member of the first Central Committee Politburo, the supreme decision-making body of the emerging Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Kamenev became chairman of the Moscow Soviet, and soon after that, Lenin's Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (government) and the Council of Labour and Defence
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Which the two would have preferred to be left unmentioned
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1917–1917).
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Kamenev was arrested upon returning to Saint Petersburg and exiled to Siberia
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And his family went abroad later in the year to help Lenin edit the Bolshevik magazine Proletariy
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Moved to Paris, where he met Vladimir Lenin, whose adherent and close associate he became, other Marxist exiles from the Iskra group that published the newspaper, and his wife, Olga Bronstein, younger sister of Leon T
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And sided with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction after the party's 1903 split
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And was arrested in March 1902 for taking part in a student protest, and, after a few months in prison, was sent back to Tiflis under police escort
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“On Optimism and Pessimism, on the Twentieth Century, and on Many Other Things”
Enrolled as law student in Imperial Moscow University
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To Tiflis (known as Tbilisi after 1936), where he first made contact with an illegal Marxist circle
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Born 1883-07-18.
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