Leonid Krasin

Leonid Borisovich Krasin (, 1870 – 1926 ) was a Russian Bolshevik leader. Two Famous Icebreakers memorialize his name.

Krasin joined the Social Democratic movement in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s and in the split in 1903 into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks , he supported the Bolsheviks and was elected to the Central Committee the same year.

In 1908 , Krasin left Russia and withdrew from political activities for many years, but after the February Revolution of 1917 , he returned to Russia and rejoined the Bolsheviks. In the Soviet government, Krasin was People's Commissar of foreign trade between 1920 and 1924 .

In 1924 he was elected to the party’s Central Committee where he remained until his death in London of a blood disease. The remedies proposed by his old friend, the physician Alexander Bogdanov , could not save him. Krasin was buried at the Kremlin in Moscow .

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