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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 54 Government and administration 16 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 41 Security, intelligence and policing 23 Diplomacy and international organization 18 Economy, finance and planning 28 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 5 Ideology and propaganda 14 Social movements and organizing 86 Scholarship and theory 16 Education 4 Science and technology 7 Literature and arts 37 Religion 1 Law and justice 10

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 63 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 30 Left Opposition 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Left Communists 4 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 Workers' Opposition 2

All 14 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 26 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 58

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 86 Russia 5

Background

Any Russia 59 Ukraine 8 Belarus 4 Poland 4 Georgia 3 Latvia 2 Moldova 2 Bulgaria 1 Germany 1 Lithuania 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 3 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 86 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 43 The last generation1985–1991 24

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 7 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Social movements and organizing Citizenship: Soviet Union The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

86 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
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
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
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1933
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1959
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
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
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
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
Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1876–1947
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
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
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
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
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1937
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
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1925
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
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1941
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 state institutions 1883–1938
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 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
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
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1887–1937
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
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

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