Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Zinoviev's Personality
- Active in the party as early as 1903 and
worked closely with Lenin before Revolution.
- Fell out with Lenin as wanted a Socialist coalition.
- Opposed armed uprising of October 1917 and was not given a major
position in Sovnarkom which ran day to day government.
- Made Party Secretary in Leningrad which
allowed him to build up some power
- Less intellectual than other contenders.
- 1919 made Chairman of the Comintern, role was to
help spread revolution elsewhere with Communists
from Britain, Germany etc attending conferences
- Full member of Politburo in 1921.
- Unpopular, seen as vain and cowardly as had avoided fighting
during Civil War, staying in most expensive hotel in Petrograd
surrounded by prostitutes.