Lenin: Speech to the Petrograd Soviet

by Grigory Zinoviev

Speech to the Petrograd Soviet by Gregory Zinoviev, Secretary of the Comintern, Celebrating Lenin’s Recovery from Wounds Received in the Attempt Made on his Life on August 30, 1918

43 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1929

About the author

Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev (Russian: Григо́рий Евсе́евич Зино́вьев, IPA: [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj zʲɪˈnovʲjɪf]; born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum (Russian: Радомысльский), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev is best remembered as the longtime head of the Communist International and the architect of the several failed attempts to transform Germany into a communist country during the early 1920s. He was in competition against Joseph Stalin who eliminated him from the Soviet political leadership. He was the chief defendant in a 1936 show trial, the Trial of the Sixteen that marked the start of the so-called Great Terror in the USSR and resulted in his execution the day after his conviction in August 1936.