Zinoviev

noun

1. Gri·go·ri Ev·se·e·vich [gryi-gaw–ryee yif-sye-yi-vyich] /gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪfˈsyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1883–1936, Russian Bolshevik leader.

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