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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 161 Government and administration 21 Legislature and state representation 9 Military command 170 Security, intelligence and policing 123 Diplomacy and international organization 45 Economy, finance and planning 84 Industry and production 83 Agriculture and land policy 13 Ideology and propaganda 48 Social movements and organizing 165 Scholarship and theory 12 Education 3 Science and technology 54 Literature and arts 14 Law and justice 20

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party Secretariat and cadres 83

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 165 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 34 Left Opposition 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 12 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 5 Soviet Unionstate 5 Left Communists 4 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3

All 19 affiliations

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 24 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Marxism and communism 140

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 165 Russia 7 Estonia 2 Spain 1

Background

Any Russia 128 Ukraine 11 Latvia 6 Poland 6 Georgia 5 Belarus 3 Lithuania 2 Bulgaria 1 Finland 1 Germany 1 Korea 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 63 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 36 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 41 The last generation1985–1991 21

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 3 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Social movements and organizing Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

165 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1863–1949
Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr Николай Яковлевич Марр Creator of the Japhetic theory who, as the sole Imperial academician to join the Communist Party, dominated Soviet linguistics for decades Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1865–1934
Julian Józefowicz Marchlewski Julian Marchlewski A Pole who passed through the German and Russian revolutions and tried to bring revolution home Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1866–1925
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon' Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1868–1953
David Borisovich Riazanov Давид Борисович Рязанов Founder of the Marx-Engels Institute and independent Marxist who never stopped disagreeing Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1870–1938
Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine 1873–1941
Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1941
Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Елена Дмитриевна Стасова The early Secretariat’s practical organizer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1966
Semyon Ivanovich Balashov Семён Иванович Балашов Bolshevik leader of Ivanovo-Voznesensk who built the first soviet alongside Frunze during the 1905 general strike Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1925
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1940
Mikhail Fyodorovich Vladimirsky Михаил Фёдорович Владимирский Old Bolshevik who watched over the Party's books for a quarter-century Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1951
Vasily Nikolayevich Kayurov Василий Николаевич Каюров Vyborg Bolshevik organizer who turned the Women's Day protest into the February Revolution Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1936
Boris Mikhailovich Eltsin Борис Михайлович Эльцин A physician of the Left Opposition who shares a name with the first president of Russia Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1937
Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum Military command · Soviet Union 1877–1937
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин “The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1938
Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine 1879–1925
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotieva Лидия Александровна Фотиева Lenin's personal secretary and conduit of his final political struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1975
Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1922
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions 1882–1940
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1938
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937 Military command · Soviet Union 1883–1938
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union 1883–1947
Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1954
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union 1884–1928
Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1936
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов The organizer who linked party and state after October Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1919
Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1885–1936
Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1949
Sergei Mironovich Kirov Сергей Миронович Киров The Leningrad organizer whose murder became the pretext for the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1934
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1924
Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1936
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev Павел Петрович Постышев Stalin's famine envoy and terror executor called the 'hangman of Ukraine', executed in 1939 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1939
Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1949
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 Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1960
Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1961
Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский The Red commander of the Urals Military command · Soviet Union 1888–1936
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1888–1970
Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1935

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