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

In a meeting with the ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev, South Korea's vice-foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun denounced the move and warned that Seoul will "respond with all measures available".

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

Even as Stalin gains increasing prominence in both the Bolshevik hierarchy and Kotkin’s narrative, he shares the stage with Kamanev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Lenin and, above all, Trotsky.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2014

Then they carried me shoulder high through the village, and sent telegrams to Lenin, to Zinoviev, to everybody they could think of, and since then we have had nothing but help from them.

From Russia in 1919 by Ransome, Arthur