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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 30 Government and administration 4 Legislature and state representation 1 Military command 15 Security, intelligence and policing 9 Diplomacy and international organization 7 Economy, finance and planning 16 Industry and production 3 Agriculture and land policy 1 Ideology and propaganda 8 Social movements and organizing 46 Scholarship and theory 1 Education 1 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 1 Law and justice 5

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 1 Party Secretariat and cadres 13

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 137 Soviet Union state institutions 109 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 70 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 10 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 9 Left Opposition 8 Russian Empire state institutions 6 Comintern 5

All 20 affiliations

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 5

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 20 Anarchists 1 Marxism and communism 116

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 132 Russia 5

Background(set)

Any Russia 137 Ukraine 19 Poland 10 Belarus 7 Georgia 7 Latvia 6 Lithuania 4 Armenia 3 Moldova 3 Estonia 2 Germany 2 Uzbekistan 2 Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Kazakhstan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 4 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 137 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 243 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 232 The last generation1985–1991 103

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Background: Russia The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

137 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1863–1933
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
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1864–1935
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1868–1932
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
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1869–1939
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1869–1944
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин The helmsman who changed course at every fork Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1870–1924
Leonid Borisovich Krasin Леонид Борисович Красин From revolutionary engineer to Soviet diplomatic architect, the only Bolshevik who could do business with Western capital Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1870–1926
Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1870–1928
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
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1870–1939
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1936
Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1950
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1952
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1959
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
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
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1873–1955
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
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1932
Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1933
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
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Николай Александрович Семашко Founder of Soviet public health who designed free universal healthcare (the 'Semashko model') Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1949
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1875–1933
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
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
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1937
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1941
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1877–1937
Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1877–1937
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1878–1924
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1937
Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин 'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1941
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1940
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1936
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1969
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1936
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1938
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
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
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1932
Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1938

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