Russia / Soviet Union: Lev Kamenev (1883-1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and prominent Soviet politician, 1921

Lev Borisovich Kamenev, born Rozenfeld, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He served briefly as the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, Kamenev fell out of favour and, following a show trial, was executed.

Kamenev was the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky.

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