People of the Revolution and the USSR
Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
Background: Russia
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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GlossarySocialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising
- Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left
- Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile
- Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule
- Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution'
- Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books
- Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves
- Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky
- Pyotr Tokmakov Пётр Токмаков Peasant-born officer who commanded the United Partisan Army of Tambov and chaired the Union of Working Peasantry