Lev Kamenev Lev Kamenev Lev Borisovich Kamenev (born Leo Rosenfeld or Lev Borisovich Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov. Kamenev was the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky. He served briefly as the equivalent of the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917, and from 1923-24 as acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life. Joseph Stalin viewed him as a source of discontent and
Lev Timofeev the mid-1990s he joined the Transnational Radical Party and became a member of its General Council. Timofeev isone of the leading theorists of drug decriminalization. In early 2000 Timofeev retired from politics and teaching and embarked on a career of a novelist: since 2004 he published three novels and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel "Negative" was nominated for the Booker Prize. Between 2011 and 2015 Timofeev regularly published his short stories in the Russian Riviera magazine. Lev Timofeev has three children: Sofiya, Yekaterina and Anton. Lev Timofeev Lev Timofeev (, born 1936) is a Russian economist, political