Bol­she­vik lead­ers write a let­ter of defi­ance to then-British For­eign Sec­re­tary George Cur­zon, 1923. L-R: Semy­on Budy­on­ny, Alex­ei Rykov, Mikhail Kalin­in, Sergey Kamenev (mus­ta­chios), Leonid Krasin (fedo­ra), Karl Radek (smok­ing pipe), Niko­lai Bukharin, Geor­gy Chicherin( writ­ing); Lev Kamenev (ges­tur­ing), Chris­t­ian Rakovsky (arm raised) Leon Trot­sky (goa­tee) , Demyan Bed­ny (fac­ing the oth­ers), Max­im Litvi­nov (glass­es), Joseph Stal­in, Grig­o­ry Zinoviev. (Kras­nyi Perets, pub­lic domain)