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Also Known As Lev Davidovich Bronshtein
Born November 7, 1879 • Ukraine
Died August 21, 1940 (aged 60) • Mexico
Title / Office foreign minister (1917-1918), Russia
Political Affiliation Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Menshevik • Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party • United Opposition
Role In Russian Civil War • Russian Revolution • treaties of Brest-Litovsk • War Communism • October Revolution

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