Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary...

Zinoviev and Kamenev allied with Lenin's widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Grigory Sokolnikov, the Soviet Commissar of Finance and a non-voting Politburo member...

“publicly putting on the mask of grief”. Similarly, Old Bolshevik Grigory Sokolnikov reported Stalin making disparaging remarks about Lenin's passing with...

17th Minister of Defence (2021-2023) Karl Radek, Soviet politician Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence...

Commissar of Finance. When the head of the Commissariat, Grigory Sokolnikov, supported Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev in their unsuccessful opposition...

trial involved 17 lesser figures including Karl Radek, Yuri Pyatakov, Grigory Sokolnikov, and Leonid Serebryakov. Alexander Beloborodov was also arrested and...

Kuromiya, Stalin pleaded with the People's Commissar for Finance, Grigory Sokolnikov, not to discuss Lenin's testament at the 15th party Congress. This...

"anti-Soviet Trotskyite-centre" which included Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov, and were accused of plotting with Trotsky, who was said to be conspiring...

highest hierarchs of the Church negatively towards the personality of Grigory Rasputin. Bishop of Tauride and Simferopol Theophan and Metropolitan of...

conciliatory line towards dissenters, for which he was openly attacked by Grigory Zinoviev, who was backed up by Joseph Stalin and others who later formed...