Lev Kamenev
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Oct 26, 2026
Fin TaylorHOST
So what he does is he takes...
Fin TaylorHOST
Now, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who were two of the huge Leninist loyalists from the revolution...
Fin TaylorHOST
And they both helped Stalin defeat Trotsky in the 20s.
Fin TaylorHOST
But they then turned against him because of all the grain stuff and the whole of my beer.
Fin TaylorHOST
They were
Horatio GouldHOST
part of the Troika, which was the three-person leadership straight after Lenin.
Fin TaylorHOST
So Kamenev and other prisoners are taken to the Kremlin, confronted by Stalin.
Fin TaylorHOST
Stalin says their guilt has been established.
HarryUNKNOWN
Okay, all right.
BeauHOST
On this day in 1926, Leon Chotsky and Lev Kamenev are expelled from the Soviet Politburo.
BeauHOST
Yeah, because if you know your Soviet history, do you think I've got long-form content all about Lenin and Stalin? Yeah.
BeauHOST
Lenin dies in like 1924, and they knew he was dying for a while before he did finally pop his clogs.
BeauHOST
And he, of course, wants to get rid of all his enemies and rivals.
BeauHOST
In the end, gets rid of every single old Bolshevik, really, basically, more or less.
BeauHOST
But to begin with, His main rival politically is Trotsky and some of the other big beasts in the party like Kamenev.
BeauHOST
Stalin had hated Kamenev for years and years and years and years, since before World War I, and always seen Trotsky as a rival.
TomHOST
And he had compiled his notes in a blue notebook that he had left behind in Sweden on his way back into Russia in April 1917.
TomHOST
And this subject and his notes were so important to him that he asked Kamenev, one of the other Bolshevik leaders, to publish it in case he happened to be killed by the reaction at that time.
TomHOST
Now, as could be expected, he built on Marx and Engels' writings on the topic.
TomHOST
They themselves had developed their understanding of the state over time based on historical experience as well as the emerging science of anthropology.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
Uh, but I think this is where they're looking at.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
They're saying, "Well, look at the, the prominent Jewish communist," like, and even earlier, Kamenev and Zinoviev, uh, the first, uh, show trials executed were former Jewish Politburo members.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
But if you take the total numbers, it's only a couple hundred people.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
And at this time you had, uh, almost, uh, 78,000 ethnic Poles and 46,000 ethnic Germans executed specifically because they were German or Polish in '37 and '38.
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J. Otto PohlGUEST
Uh, and four of them, uh, are Jewish, uh, according to the Soviet records.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
So those are Trotsky, obviously, uh, born in Ukraine.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
Uh, Kamenev, uh, whose father was Jewish, uh, but is identified in almost all the literature as an ethnic Jew.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
Uh, Zinoviev, uh, and a guy named Solokov, which I can't find much information on him, and it doesn't seem anybody else can.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
But I think this is where they're looking at.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
They're saying, well, look at the prominent Jewish communists, like, and even earlier, Kamenev and Zinoviev, the first show trials executed were former Jewish Politburo members.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
But if you take the total numbers, it's only a couple hundred people.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
And at this time, you had almost 78,000 ethnic Poles and 46,000 ethnic Germans executed specifically because they were German or Polish in 1937 and 1938.
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J. Otto PohlGUEST
And four of them are Jewish according to the Soviet records.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
So those are Trotsky, obviously, born in Ukraine.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
Kamenev, whose father was Jewish, but is identified in almost all the literature as an ethnic Jew.
J. Otto PohlGUEST
Zinoviev.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
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Pete QuiñonesHOST
Alexander Parvis, Solomon Lozovsky, Moisei Urytsky, Adolf Abramovich Jaffa, Dmitry Bogrov, Lev Kamenev, real name Rosenfeld, Maxim Litbinov, Bornmeier Henok Moshe, last name Finkelstein.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Karl Radek, real name Karl Sobolson.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
You probably recognize a bunch of these from 200 Years Together if you listened.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
There are many more names that will mean little to you.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Alexander Parvis, Solomon Lozovsky, Moise Uritsky, Adolf Abramovich Jaffa, Dmitri Bogrov, Lev Kamenev, real name Rosenfeld, Maxim Litvinov, born Meyer Henoch Moshe, last name Finkelstein, Karl Radek, real name Karl Sobelson.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
You probably recognize a bunch of these from 200 Years Together if you listened.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Grigori Zinoviev, Ilya Ehrenberg, Natali Frankel, Matias Berman, all Jewish mass murderers in their own right.
Dan SnowHOST
But there was resistance in the room.
Dan SnowHOST
Lenin's oldest comrades, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, warned that an uprising, an armed uprising, was really a gamble with the future of the revolution.
Dan SnowHOST
Why launch a coup, they said, when the Bolsheviks might win elections? They might win a majority in a new parliament within weeks.
Dan SnowHOST
Why risk everything when there wasn't really the popular demand for a violent uprising? If it failed, everyone in that room would surely face execution.
Dan SnowHOST
But there was resistance in the room.
Dan SnowHOST
Lenin's oldest comrades, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, warned that an uprising, an armed uprising, was really a gamble with the future of the revolution.
Dan SnowHOST
Why launch a coup, they said, when the Bolsheviks might win elections, they might win a majority in a new parliament within weeks? Why risk everything when there wasn't really the popular demand for a violent uprising? If it failed, everyone in that room would surely face execution.
Dan SnowHOST
The argument went on and on.
C. Derick VarnHOST
That, that is me saying that Lenin's analysis for what they, what they needed to be done was guided by basically responding to an ever-shifting political terrain.
C. Derick VarnHOST
And when you saw the debates in the 1920s in the Comintern, like between Trotsky and Stalin and Bukharin and Zinoviev and Kamenev and all that, I was like, well, all of them are citing Lenin, and frankly, they're all citing Lenin correctly.
C. Derick VarnHOST
Like, depending on the time period you're looking at Lenin at.
C. Derick VarnHOST
And it, it, it kind of got me thinking about the problem that Lenin presents for a lot of us because we do try to turn him into a very coherent set of, like, doctrines that we can add on to more fully fledge out the, the political side of Marxism because Marx and Engels' politics are...
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