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Krestinsky

A Bolshevik official.

minor

First appearance: iv moscow

Krestinsky shows up with force in IX: The Club on the Tverskaya. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, who receives the delegation and dryly questions the possibility of cooperation, promising to submit the matter to the…
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In IX: The Club on the Tverskaya: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, who receives the delegation and dryly questions the possibility of cooperation, promising to submit the matter to the Central…

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UNUnknown NarratorASAskarevLELeninPKPeter KropotkinCHChicherinKRKrestinsky

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  • Other

Character groups

  • Extensive Revolutionary Cast
  • Protagonist
  • Anarchists and Bolsheviks

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SetupAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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