- sometimes.   Grigory Zinoviev - Jew QUOTE Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev 1883 - 25, 1936), born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky.. was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev spent the first three years of World War I in Switzerland . After the Russian monarchy was overthrown during the February Revolution