“Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign affairs.”
Definitely a Jew and second only to Lenin in importance. Also the single person most responsible for the Communist victory in Russia’s civil war. Would that he had used the army to overturn Stalin in 1924. Even Lenin himself seems to have realized that Stalin was Bad News but he died in January 1924.
” Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party’s executive secretary and — as chairman of the Central Executive Committee — head of the Soviet government.”
Halachically Jewish but his family had converted to Christianity.
” Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in foreign countries.”
Zinoviev publically opposed the Bolshevik coup. That almost got him thrown out of the party.
” Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek (Sobelsohn)”
Radek was in Sweden at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution.
“, foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach),”
Litvinov was in the UK at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution.
“Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld)”
Not halachically Jewish (mother was Christian). He, like Zinoviev, publically opposed the Bolshevik coup and was almost expelled from the party.
” and Moisei Uritsky.”
Definitely Jewish and did play a role in the Bolshevik Revolution.
Interestingly, the only two Jews who DID play a role in the Bolshevik coup — Trotsky and Uritsky — had only joined the party a few months earlier.