Leonid Krasin
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Image:Krasinper2.JPG Image:Leonid Krasin - Punch cartoon - Project Gutenberg etext 16707.png Leonid Borisovich Krasin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Красин, 1870 – 24 November 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 Sovietgovernment, 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. He left an English wife and three daughters. Krasin's funeral procession three days later included 6,000 mourners, many of them Bolshevik sympathisers; he was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium before being buried at the Kremlin in Moscow.de:Leonid Borissowitsch Krassin eo:Leonid Krasin nl:Leonid Krasin ru:Красин, Леонид Борисович sv:Leonid Krasin
