Zinoviev was never forgotten in Russia. He was huge in the 1990s; he wrote several enormous novels and several books of political essays and was an advisor to the Communist Party until he died a couple of years ago. There's a Zinoviev Center.
--- On Tue, 6/24/08, moominek at aol.com <moominek at aol.com> wrote:
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> In the first half of the nineties, when the old man, then
> living in Munich, seemed to be forgotten in Russia and the
> West, Wessel invited him a few times. There was a
> symposium on occasion of Zinovievs 70th birthday - in some
> way too a "bye bye" of the Berlin group logic
> research group, wich was dispersed after the
> "unification". So I met Zinoviev.
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> Later he moved back to Moscow and got there a last chance
> for builiding an sect around him. In Berlin we were
> interested in logic and never cared about disputing his
> views too, and he - in this time - accepted serious
> discussion. The only point he was uneasy about was the
> "moskovsky methodologicesky krushok" and his long
> gone friendship with Evald Ilyenkov.
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