Zinoviev

American  

[zi-noh-vee-ef, -nov-yef, zyi-naw-vyif] / zɪˈnoʊ viˌɛf, -ˈnɒv jɛf, zjɪˈnɔ vjɪf /

noun

1. Grigori Evseevich 1883–1936, Russian Bolshevik leader.

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Zinoviev British  

/ ziˈnɔvjɪf, zɪˈnəʊvɪəf /

noun

1. Grigori Yevseevich, original name Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky. 1883–1936, Soviet politician; chairman of the Comintern (1919–26) executed for supposed complicity in the murder of Kirov. He was the supposed author of the forged `Zinoviev letter' urging British Communists to revolt, publication of which helped to defeat (1924) the first Labour Government

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Zinoviev

These conditions gave birth to a new type of person, which the writer Alexander Zinoviev called Homo Sovieticus, or Homosos; the term sovok was also common.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Mr Zinoviev said he would relay the concerns, but stressed that the cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang is "within the framework of international law".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024

For the work-release program, Epstein traveled not with the sheriff’s deputies assigned to him but with a personal driver, a former mixed-martial-arts fighter from Russia named Igor Zinoviev.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2019

He ordered the Admiralty to stop roughing up U-boat prisoners, saw that the Zinoviev Letter smearing Labour was a forgery, and stopped the government penalising workers who came out in the general strike.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018

Zinoviev, attempting to speak for the Bolsheviki, was hooted down, and as he left the platform, amid laughter, there were cries, "There's how a People's Commissar sits in a mudpuddle!"

From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

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