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Zinoviev|zɪˈnɒviːɛf|
Also Zinovieff.
[The assumed name of Y. A. Radomyslsky (1883–1936).]
Zinoviev letter: a letter published in the press in 1924 as having been sent by Zinoviev, a Russian statesman, to British Communists and urging them to commit subversive acts; it was later discovered to be a forgery.
1924Times 28 Oct. 8/1 (heading) The Zinovieff letter. Ibid., If the Zinovieff letter is a forgery, it shows the amount of scoundrelliness with which we are surrounded. 1925(title) The ‘Zinoviev’ letter: report of investigation by British delegation to Russia. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIII. 554/2 In the general election of 1924 the Labour party met with a serious reverse, largely because of the confusion attending the publication of the ‘Zinoviev’ letter. 1958C. Cockburn Crossing Line iv. 64 The timely forgery by the Intelligence Service of the ‘Zinoviev letter’. 1972‘M. Sinclair’ Norslag xi. 101 The stories in the 'twenties about the Zinovieff letter. 1979Guardian 28 Apr. 32/8 Mr Benn told a Bristol audience that the Tories..were dragging out the old Zinoviev Letter technique.
Hence Ziˈnovievite, in Russia, a supporter of Zinoviev and his anti-Stalin faction in the 1920s and 1930s; also attrib. or as adj.
1937Foreign Affairs XVI. 50 The Trotskyites and Zinovievites. Ibid. 64 Designated by the government of the U.S.S.R. as members of a ‘Trotskyite-Zinovievite Center’. 1970S. Talbott tr. Khrushchev Remembers (1971) i. 28 The Fifteenth Party Congress, at which Stalin and his supporters squared off against the Zinovievites, or ‘Leningrad opposition’, as they were then called. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. viii. 329 Centers keep creeping in all the time... Trotskyite-Zinovievite Centers, Rightist-Bukharinite Centers, but all of them are crushed. |