People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 2 Government and administration 14 Legislature and state representation 1 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 32 Security, intelligence and policing 6 Economy, finance and planning 1 Agriculture and land policy 1 Ideology and propaganda 1 Law and justice 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 108 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 85 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 15 People’s Republic of China state institutions 4 East Germany state institutions 4 Hungary state institutions 3 Czechoslovakia state institutions 2 Poland state institutions 2 Russian Empire state institutions 1

All 31 affiliations

Albania

Albania state institutions 1 Party of Labour of Albania 1

Angola

Angola state institutions 1

Belarus

Belarus state institutions 1

China

Kuomintang 1 People’s Republic of China state institutions 4

Cuba

Cuba state institutions 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 2 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germany state institutions 4

Finland

Finland state institutions 1 National Progressive Party (Finland) 1

France

French monarchy state institutions 1

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 3

Poland

Poland state institutions 2 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 1 Russian Federation state institutions 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 15

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 85 Soviet Union state institutions 108

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 2

United States

United States state institutions 2 Democratic Party (United States) 2

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 1
Position
Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1
Citizenship
Any Russia 1
Background
Any Georgia 1
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1
Economy, finance and planning Russian Empire state institutions Clear all

Sergei Yulyevich Witte

Сергей Юльевич Витте
Russian Empire state institutions Imperial establishment and White movement Russia Georgia 1849–1915 ○ Natural causes

The fixer his Tsar could not forgive

1888: he warned the Tsar's aides, to their faces, that using two freight locomotives to speed the imperial train was reckless. Days later the Borki derailment proved him right. Alexander III remembered — and made him Director of State Railways.

Architect of the empire's modernization: the Trans-Siberian railway, the gold standard. In 1905 he made peace with Japan and wrung the October Manifesto from a cornered Tsar, who never forgave him for it. He died sidelined, writing his memoirs.

Career timeline
  • 1892–1903Finance Minister: gold standard, Trans-Siberian, industrial drive
  • 1905.09Negotiates the Portsmouth peace with Japan
  • 1905.10First prime minister; drafts the October Manifesto
  • 1906.04Dismissed; sidelined to the State Council
Scenes The October Manifesto — take the concession?