Grigory Zinoviev

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev[a] (born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky[b], 23 September [O.S. 11 September] 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and politician.

Quotes about Grigory Zinovyev

• The articulation of universalism with the sense of Jewish identity took varying forms depending on the different revolutionary currents: for internationalists such as Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek and Rosa Luxemburg, the assimilation of a Jewish revolutionary into the concrete universal party, the dissolution of the 'little difference' into the status of equality of the militant, anticipated the society for which they fought; they did not consider the little difference' as called on to crystallize one day in terms of national identity. Were they blind? Blinkered, certainly, in the sense that they underestimated the national dimension of the Jewish problem in Eastern Europe.
  • Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (2016)
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