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June 2, 1929
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The Soviet press mourns the death of Lilina Zinovieff, White Russian Jewess, wife of Gregory Zinovieff, who died in Leningrad from cancer at the age of 48. Madame Zionvioff was an active communist who returned to Russia on the same train with Lenin. She was the head of the Leningrad Education Commissariat and the author of a number of communist books specially prepared for youth consumption.

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