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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman Николай Эрнестович Бауман
The 'Rook' who flew across borders building the Iskra network, and the revolution's first martyr
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1905
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Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин
The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1906
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Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий
The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1873–1918
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Roman Vatslavovich Malinovsky Роман Вацлавович Малиновский
Bolshevik Central Committee member and Duma leader who was the Okhrana's best-paid spy
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1918
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Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова
Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1921
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Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян
The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1878–1918
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Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой
Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1879–1947
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Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский
A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1879–1967
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1921
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Alexandra Petrovna Kim Александра Петровна Ким
The first Korean communist, who gave her life bridging the Russian Revolution and Korean liberation
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1918
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Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky Владимир Савельевич Войтинский
A social democrat who changed course between revolution and economics
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1960
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Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди
Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1970
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V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский
Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1918
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Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль
The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1896–1917
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Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin Виктор Васильевич Гришин
The face of the Brezhnev era who ran Moscow for eighteen years and died while re-applying for his pension
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1914–1992
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Vladimir Ivanovich Terebilov Владимир Иванович Теребилов
Jurist who revived the abolished Justice Ministry and directed the codification of Soviet legislation
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1916–2004
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Gury Ivanovich Marchuk Гурий Иванович Марчук
Last President of the USSR Academy of Sciences and pioneer of computational mathematics in Siberia
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–2013
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Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов
The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1929–2007
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Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков
Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1929–2024
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Nikolai Pavlovich Laverov Николай Павлович Лавёров
The last chairman of Soviet state science policy and a uranium geologist
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1930–2016
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Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Владимир Антонович Ивашко
The last deputy general secretary before dissolution
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1932–1994
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Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анатолий Александрович Собчак
Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1937–2000
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Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов
The Supreme Soviet chairman who stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks
Legislature and state representation · Russian Federation state institutions
1942–2023
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Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy Александр Владимирович Руцкой
Russia's only vice president: stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1947–
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Владимир Владимирович Путин
A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1952–
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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Pyzhikov Александр Владимирович Пыжиков
A historian of the 1950s-60s USSR and the Russian church schism
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1965–2019