The Bolshevik Myth · Character
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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Character groups
- Extensive Revolutionary Cast
- Protagonist
- Anarchists and Bolsheviks
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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