Image: Speech of Grigory Zinoviev on May 1st 1918 Petrograd

Description: Grigory Zinoviev, Chairman of The Petrograd Soviet addresses the crowd on the first International Workers' Day after the October Uprising (the Bolshevik Revolution). Date: May 1 1918. Place: Fields of Mars, Petrograd. Context: Zinoviev was one of the seven leaders of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Uprising in 1917: Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Stalin, Sokolnikov, and Bubnov. He became the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern when it was created in March 1919 to spread the uprising worldwide. Grigory Zinoviev was executed in 1936, following the court case known as Trial of Sixteen. This trial started the historical period known as The Great Purge.
Title: Speech of Grigory Zinoviev on May 1st 1918 Petrograd
Credit: Plamia issue 2, May 12 1918. Magazine published by as Anatoly Lunacharsky. The image taken from The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library
Author: Yakov Steinberg b. 1880 d. 1942
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