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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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People of the Soviet Union
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Andrei Yevgenyevich Snesarev Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев
Tsarist general turned Red Army theorist who clashed with Stalin at Tsaritsyn
Military command · Soviet Union
1865–1937
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Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich Михаил Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич
The first Imperial general to join the Bolsheviks: military director who led the founding of the Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1870–1956
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Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev Павел Павлович Лебедев
From tsarist major general to first Chief of the Red Army Staff, operational architect of Civil War victory
Military command · Soviet Union
1872–1933
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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
1874–1933
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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
1877–1937
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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
1879–1940
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Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв
Tsarist officer turned Red commander who took Kyiv, battled in Bessarabia, and rebelled against Brest-Litovsk
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1918
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Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев
The Soviet Union's greatest fortification scientist, who chose martyrdom at Mauthausen over collaboration with the Nazis
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1945
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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов
Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1969
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Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев
Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1936
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Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов
Stalin’s marshal, sustained by loyalty more than command
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1969
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Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov Борис Михайлович Шапошников
The only officer Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, author of The Brain of the Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1882–1945
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Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин
Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1936
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин
The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Александр Ильич Егоров
The Southern Front commander who broke Denikin: the last of the first five marshals whose name was erased
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1939
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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый
The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1973
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Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин
Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1927
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич
Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1928
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко
Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1885–1938
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Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев
Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore
Military command · Soviet Union
1887–1919
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Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев
A Red Army commander shaped by the air war
Military command · Soviet Union
1887–1934
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union
1888–1936
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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин
The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man
Military command · Soviet Union
1889–1938
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Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis Лев Захарович Мехлис
From Stalin's personal secretary to the Red Army's purge enforcer, nicknamed 'the Inquisitor of the Red Army'
Military command · Soviet Union
1889–1953
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Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский
MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1918
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Boris Mironovich Feldman Борис Миронович Фельдман
One of the eight Tukhachevsky-trial defendants; his confession under torture started the chain reaction that consumed the Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher Василий Константинович Блюхер
“Order of the Red Banner No. 1”: Civil War hero and one of the first five marshals, extinguished in Lefortovo
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1938
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Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир
The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations
Military command · Soviet Union
1891–1920
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Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov Александр Васильевич Горбатов
The army general who survived Kolyma, took Berlin, and testified to Stalin-era repression
Military command · Soviet Union
1891–1973
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Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский
Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism
Military command · Soviet Union
1892–1925
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Pyotr Ionovich Baranov Пётр Ионович Баранов
Principal architect of the Soviet Air Force and aviation industry
Military command · Soviet Union
1892–1933
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Andrei Vasilyevich Khrulev Андрей Васильевич Хрулёв
The invisible commander who moved the war, the only supply general Stalin toasted as architect of victory
Military command · Soviet Union
1892–1962
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Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev Иван Владимирович Тюленев
The cavalry general who bolted the Caucasus gate, witness to three wars
Military command · Soviet Union
1892–1978
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский
“The Red Napoleon,” killed by the army he built
Military command · Soviet Union
1893–1937
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Yan Borisovich Gamarnik Ян Борисович Гамарник
The Red Army's political chief who backed the purges, then shot himself as they closed in
Military command · Soviet Union
1894–1937
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Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin Фёдор Иванович Толбухин
The marshal who liberated the Balkans and prized soldiers' lives above glory
Military command · Soviet Union
1894–1949
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Maksim Alexeyevich Purkayev Максим Алексеевич Пуркаев
Mordvin carpenter's son who rose to Army General and led the Manchurian offensive
Military command · Soviet Union
1894–1953
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Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov Семён Ильич Богданов
The tank army commander who first entered Berlin, sidelined after Stalin's death
Military command · Soviet Union
1894–1960
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Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский
The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable'
Military command · Soviet Union
1894–1965
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Anatoly Grigorievich Zheleznyakov Анатолий Григорьевич Железняков
The anarchist sailor who dissolved the Constituent Assembly with 'The guard is tired', an icon of the revolution who fell in battle at 24
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1919
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс
Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev'
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1919
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Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий
GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1938
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Nikolai Pavlovich Pukhov Николай Павлович Пухов
The seminary-trained instructor who drove the 13th Army into the heart of Europe
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1958
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Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev Иван Степанович Юмашев
Pacific Fleet commander of Operation August Storm, the admiral Stalin dismissed as 'not a minister'
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1972
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Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov Михаил Степанович Шумилов
Commander of the 64th Army: Stalingrad's southern shield for six months
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1975
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky Александр Михайлович Василевский
The seminarian-turned-staff-officer who designed Uranus
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1977
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Andrei Ivanovich Zelentsov Андрей Иванович Зеленцов
A division commander caught between encirclement and higher command
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1941
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Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin Фёдор Иванович Трухин
A staff general who turned from Soviet command to an anti-Soviet armed organisation
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1946
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Yakov Nikolayevich Fedorenko Яков Николаевич Федоренко
First Marshal of Armored Troops who led the Red Army's tank forces through the entire war
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1947
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Ivan Yefimovich Petrov Иван Ефимович Петров
The army general who held Odessa and Sevastopol, and returned to command every time Stalin sacked him
Military command · Soviet Union
1896–1958