Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883–1936)
"Kamenev" redirects here. For the Russian painter, see Lev Lvovich Kamenev. For the surname, see Kamenev (surname).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Kamenev.
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Lev Kamenev
Лев Каменев
Kamenev, c. 1920s
Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
In office 6 July 1923 – 16 January 1926
Premier
Vladimir Lenin
Alexey Rykov
Director of the Lenin Institute of the Central Committee
In office 31 March 1923 – 1926
Preceded by
Post established
Succeeded by
Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets
In office 9 – 21 November 1917
Preceded by
Nikolai Chkheidze
Succeeded by
Yakov Sverdlov
Full member of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th Politburo
In office 8 March 1919 – 1 January 1926
In office 10 October – 29 November 1917
Candidate member of the 14th Politburo
In office 1 January – 23 October 1926
Full member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th Central Committee
In office 17 January 1912 – 14 November 1927
Personal details
Born
Leo Rosenfeld
18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1883 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died
25 August 1936(1936-08-25) (aged 53) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Political party
RSDLP (1901–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1927, 1928–1932, 1933–1934)
Spouses
Olga Bronstein
Tatiana Glebova
Alma mater
Moscow State University
Lev Borisovich Kamenev[a] (néRozenfeld;[b] 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was born in Moscow to parents who had both been involved in revolutionary politics in the 1870s. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1901 and was active in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Kamenev participated in the failed Russian Revolution of 1905. Relocating abroad in 1908, he became an early member of the Bolsheviks and a close associate of the exiled Vladimir Lenin. In 1914, he was arrested upon returning to Saint Petersburg and exiled to Siberia. Kamenev was able to return after the February Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Tsarist monarchy. In 1917, he served briefly as the equivalent of the first head of state of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets. He disagreed with Lenin's strategy of armed uprising during the October Revolution but nevertheless remained in a position of power after the fall of the Provisional Government. In 1919, Kamenev was elected a full member of the first Politburo.
During Lenin's final illness in 1923–1924, he was the acting leader of the Soviet Union, forming a troika with Grigory Zinoviev and Joseph Stalin which led to Leon Trotsky's downfall. Stalin subsequently turned against his former allies and ousted Kamenev from the Soviet leadership. Kamenev and Zinoviev would later align with Trotsky and form the United Opposition from 1926 to 1927. Along with Zinoviev, he was expelled from the party three times. Kamenev was arrested in 1935 following the assassination of Sergei Kirov and made a chief defendant in 1936 Trial of the Sixteen, which marked the start of the Great Purge. He was found guilty during the show trial and executed by a firing squad on August 25.
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