Olga Davidovna Kameneva

Olga Davidovna Kameneva, 1926

Olga Dawidowna Kamenewa ( Russian Ольга Давидовна Каменева , née Bronstein; * 1883 , † September 11, 1941 in Oryol , Soviet Union ) was a leader of the Russian revolutionary movement, the sister of Leon Trotsky and wife of Lev Kamenev .

biography

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After the October Revolution she worked in the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR , where she very actively pursued a policy of Bolshevization and radicalization . She headed the theater department (TEO) there . At the instigation of Anatoly Lunacharsky , a proponent of a more moderate cultural policy, and with Lenin's consent , she was dismissed from this post in 1920.

Until the end of the 1920s, she maintained unofficial diplomatic contacts between the Soviet Union and Western countries, and requested, among other things, economic help from the West in combating the famine in the Volga region. From 1925 to 1929 she headed the VOKS (All Union Society for Cultural Relations with Abroad) for cultural work abroad.

After Trotsky and Kamenev, she too lost all posts in the party by 1927. In 1935, after her husband, who was separated from her, had been sentenced, she and Grigory Zinoviev were also arrested along with their sons and imprisoned in Oryol Central Prison until September 1941 .

Olga Kameneva was near Oryol, in the Medvedev forest, by the on September 11, 1941 mass execution of the NKVD shot .

literature

• Chapter one of Leon Trotsky's autobiography My Life , Charles Schribner 's Sons, New York 1930.
• Robert Leach, Victor Borovsky: A History of Russian Theater. Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-43220-0 , p. 303.
• Elizabeth A. Wood: The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. Indiana University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-253-21430-0 , pp. 80-81.
• James Robert Constantine (Ed.): Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs. University of Illinois, 1995, ISBN 0-252-06324-4 , pp. 223-224.
• Margaret A. Trott in William H. Schneider (Ed.): Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine: international initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 2002, ISBN 0-253-34151-5 , p. 148.
• Elisabeth Kehoe: The titled Americans: three American sisters and the British aristocratic world into which they married. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-87113-924-3 , p. 325.
• Robert Conquest: The great terror: a reassessment. Oxford University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-507132-8 , p. 76.
• Michael Parrish: The lesser terror: Soviet state security 1939–1953. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT 1996, ISBN 0-275-95113-8 , p. 69.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Commissariat of Englightment. Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-52438-5 , pp. 18 .