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- Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire
- Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich Пётр Гермогенович Смидович Iskra agent across three revolutions, KOMZET chairman who shaped Soviet nationality policy and the Birobidzhan Jewish experiment
- Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization
- Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
- Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia
- Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia
- Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize
- Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara
- Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary
- Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба Stalin's closest friend turned Beria's first victim: the red prince of Abkhazia
- Turar Ryskulovich Ryskulov Турар Рыскулович Рыскулов The Kazakh Bolshevik strategist who argued for a unified Turkestan against Stalin's national delimitation
- Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko Демьян Сергеевич Коротченко Khrushchev's loyal executor: a peasant-born apparatchik who twice led Soviet Ukraine's government
- Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov Иван Сергеевич Хохлов The weaver who became wartime premier of the Russian republic
- Faizulla Gubaidullayevich Khodzhayev Файзулла Губайдуллаевич Ходжаев Son of a Bukharan merchant who rose from the Jadid reform movement to become the first head of government of Soviet Uzbekistan
- Konstantin Dmitriyevich Pamfilov Константин Дмитриевич Памфилов Wartime RSFSR acting premier who oversaw civilian evacuation amid the Moscow panic
- Pyotr Georgievich Lazutin Пётр Георгиевич Лазутин Chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and one of the six executed in the Leningrad Affair
- Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov Борис Николаевич Черноусов The RSFSR premier who rose in the Leningrad Affair's wake and fell at the 19th Party Congress
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков The non-Politburo power who was the institutional memory of the Soviet government for 25 years
- Alexander Pavlovich Lyashko Александр Павлович Ляшко The Donetsk-born Soviet economic manager who led Ukraine's government for 15 years through the Brezhnev era
- Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov Гавриил Харитонович Попов Moscow's first elected mayor, who told the U.S. ambassador of the coming coup
- Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis Геннадий Эдуардович Бурбулис The philosopher who proposed the one sentence that declared the Soviet Union dead at Belovezh