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Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов
The man who made Lenin furious over philosophy, then died swapping his own blood: a forerunner of cybernetics
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1928
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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 state institutions
1873–1941
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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
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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
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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
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Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани
The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization
Government and administration · Georgia state institutions
1877–1937
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Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош
First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine state institutions
1879–1925
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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
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Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов
The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1881–1936
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко
He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1938
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич
Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1884–1928
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Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский
Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1937
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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
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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
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Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek
The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1885–1939
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Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский
The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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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
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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 state institutions
1887–1936
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Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев
First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land
Agriculture and land policy · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1937
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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
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов
From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1887–1937
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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
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1888–1936
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Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников
Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1889–1945
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Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков
The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions
1890–1937
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Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис
Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions
1890–1937
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Vladislav Vikentyevich Kosior Владислав Викентьевич Косиор
The Kosior brother who died in Vorkuta as an oppositionist while his brother ruled Ukraine for Stalin
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1891–1938
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Andreu Nin Andreu Nin
The Marxist who linked the Russian and Spanish revolutions, founder of the POUM
Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)
1892–1937
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Ivar Tenisovich Smilga Ivars Smilga
The young oppositionist of the Revolutionary Military Council
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1892–1937
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Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко
The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp
Political and party leadership · Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee
1892–1947
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Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе
Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1897–1935
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Valery Mikhailovich Sablin Валерий Михайлович Саблин
The naval officer who mutinied for Leninist principles against the Brezhnev regime
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1939–1976
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Leonid Petrovich Serebryakov Леонид Петрович Серебряков
The Left Opposition secretary whom Lenin called a 'brilliant worker'
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1888/1890–1937