History and chronology of Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev in Russia

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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev History of Russia


1901	SDP
Appointed Member of the Ruissian Social Democratic Party
1903	Bolshevik Party
Helps Lenin in forming the Bolshevik Group within the Social Democratic Party
1907	Central Committee
Elected to the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Party
1908	Exile of Zinoviev
Forced into exile
1917	Coup d'Etat
Favours broad socialist coalition Government after the October Revolution
Oct Opposes the Bolshevik armed uprising
1917	Exile of Zinoviev
3rd April Petrograd Lenin, Zinoviev, and other Bolsheviks arrive in Petrograd from exile in Switzerland, they are met at the train station by a large contigent of jubilent workers, soldiers, and party members
July Forced into exile to Finland during the July Days
1917	Resignation
Resigns after Lenin decides to form a Bolshevik government but is re-instated
1918	Politburo
Appointed Member of the Politburo
1918	President
Appointed President of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers
Appointed President of the Third International
1918	Rebellion
1st Sep Petrograd Announces, "bourgoisie kill separate individuals but we kill whole classes"
1st Sep Petrograd Incites the soldiers
1918	Trades Unions
Attacks the independence of Trades Unions at the All-Russian Congress
Says Trade Union rights mean nothing under a workers' government
Trades Unions under socialism will "support saboteurs"
1919	Chairman Comintern
Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
1919	Comintern
The Comintern is founded at the Congress of the Third International
Zinoviev becomes the 1st President of Comintern
1920	Congress of CP, 11th
Moscow "We do not permit the legal existence of those who strive to compete with us"
1924	Government
Allies with Stalin & Kamanev in forming a ruling triumvirate after the death of Lenin
1924	Ruling Triumvirate
Appointed Member of the Triumvirate
1924	Zinoviev Letter
An alleged letter sent to British Communists helps defeat MacDonald's government
1927	Dismissal
Expelled from the Communist Party
1928	Communist Party
Moscow Recants his opposition to Stalin & is allowed back into the Communist Party
1932	Dismissal
Moscow Expelled for a 2nd time from the Communist Party
1935	Trial
Moscow Exonerated for the assassination of Kirov
Moscow Forced to admit the "moral & political responsibility" for Kirov's assassination
Moscow Tried for a 2nd time in secret & sentenced to a long term of imprisonment
Moscow Tried in secret & sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
Moscow Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov
1936	Death
25th Aug Moscow Death of Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, executed
1936	Execution of Zinoviev
25th Aug Moscow Found guilty of charges during a show trial & shot
1936	Plot
July Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc"
1936	Purge
July Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc"
1936	Trial
Moscow Accusations are made against Zinoviev for his life during a show trial