Leonid Krasin - Biography - The Biographicon

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</b>Leonid Borisovich Krasin''' (; 1870 – November 24, 1926) was a Russian and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat.

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Krasin joined the Social Democratic Labor Party during the 1890s. He graduated Kharkov Technological Institute in 1901.

In the 1903 split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, Krasin supported the latter, being elected to the Central Committee the same year. In 1908, he left Russia and withdrew from political activities for many years, but after the February Revolution of 1917, he returned and rejoined the Bolsheviks. In the Russian Bolshevik government, Krasin was People's Commissar of foreign trade between 1920 and 1924.

In 1924, he was elected to the Communist Party's Central Committee, an office he held until his death in London, due to a blood disease — at the time, Krasin was negotiating a formal recognition of the Bolshevik government by the United Kingdom and France. The remedies proposed by his old friend, the physician Alexander Bogdanov, could not save him.

He left an English wife and three daughters. Krasin's funeral procession three days later included 6,000 mourners, many of them Bolshevik sympathizers; he was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium before being buried at the Kremlin in Moscow.

His London position was filled by Christian Rakovsky. Two famous icebreakers memorialize Krasin's name.

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Alexander Bogdanov

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...In 1924, he was elected to the Communist Party's Central Committee, an office he held until his death in London, due to a blood disease — at the time, Krasin was negotiating a formal recognition of the Bolshevik government by the United Kingdom and France. The remedies proposed by his old friend, the physician Alexander Bogdanov, could not save him....

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...After undergoing 11 blood transfusions, he remarked with satisfaction on the improvement of his eyesight, suspension of balding, and other positive symptoms. The fellow revolutionary Leonid Krasin wrote to his wife that "Bogdanov seems to have become 7, no, 10 years younger after the operation"...

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Christian Rakovsky

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...His London position was filled by Christian Rakovsky. Two famous icebreakers memorialize Krasin's name....

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...Rakovsky served as the Soviet ambassador to France between October 1925 and October 1927, replacing Leonid Krasin. He did not take hold of his office until 50 days after his official appointment, refusing to be received at the Élysée Palace by French President Gaston Doumergue for as long as the state authorities would not allow The Internationale (a revolutionary song which was at the time the Soviet national anthem) to be played on the occasion...

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Vladimir Lenin

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...Popular reaction to the assassination attempt on Lenin was described at the time by Leonid Krasin, who wrote to his wife on 7 Sept 1918:...

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Leon Trotsky

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...At first he wrote leaflets for an underground printing press in Kiev, but soon moved to the capital, Saint Petersburg. There he worked with both Bolsheviks like Central Committee member Leonid Krasin, and the local Menshevik committee which he pushed in a more radical direction. But the latter was betrayed by a secret police agent in May, and Trotsky had to flee to rural Finland...