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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 106 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 5 Military command 177 Security, intelligence and policing 102 Diplomacy and international organization 42 Economy, finance and planning 93 Industry and production 81 Agriculture and land policy 16 Ideology and propaganda 52 Social movements and organizing 149 Scholarship and theory 55 Education 8 Science and technology 104 Literature and arts 64 Religion 1 Law and justice 23

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 89 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 21 Soviet Union state institutions 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2

All 18 affiliations

International organizations

Comintern 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 1

Russia

Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 21 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 Our Home – Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 89 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 ↳ Workers' Opposition 1 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1 Soviet Union state institutions 4

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 13 Socialist-bloc reform leader 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 4 Marxism and communism 83 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 106 Russia 30 France 1 Germany 1 United States 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 106 Ukraine 11 Latvia 10 Armenia 8 Georgia 8 Belarus 7 Azerbaijan 5 Estonia 5 Poland 5 Lithuania 4 Finland 3 Kazakhstan 3 Kyrgyzstan 3 Tajikistan 3 Uzbekistan 3 Moldova 2 Turkmenistan 2 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Korea 1 Turkey 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 32 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 21 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 23 The last generation1985–1991 25

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2

Political and party leadership Citizenship: Soviet Union Background: Russia Clear all

106 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pavel Milyukov Павел Милюков Leader of the Kadets: 'Stupidity or Treason?' Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1859–1943
Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1869–1934
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
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
Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1870–1944
Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1871–1947
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
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1875–1946
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1941
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
Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1943
Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1945
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Boris Savinkov Борис Савинков Terrorist, Counter-Revolutionary: the Black Horse of the Revolution Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1879–1925
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
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
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
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
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1919
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
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 state institutions 1883–1936
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
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
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1884–1941
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
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
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
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
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1935
Elbegdorj Rinchinovich Rinchino Элбек-Доржи Ринчинович Ринчино Buryat revolutionary, drafter of Mongolia's 1924 constitution, victim of the Great Terror Political and party leadership · Mongolia state institutions 1888–1938
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1970
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
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
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1986
Mirsaid Khaydargalievich Sultan-Galiev Мирсаид Хайдаргалиевич Султан-Галиев The architect of Islamic socialism and national communism who became Stalin's first ideological purge victim Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1940
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
Sergei Ivanovich Syrtsov Сергей Иванович Сырцов The RSFSR premier who turned against Stalin from Siberia Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв He opened the coffin lid, and became the first leader to die in bed Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1971
Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky Григорий Наумович Каминский First USSR People's Commissar for Health, a founder of Soviet preventive medicine Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1938
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1975
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1948
Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1957

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