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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the wider world
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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
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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
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский
Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1868–1932
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Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский
Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1868–1944
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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
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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
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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
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Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский
Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1881–1948
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Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин
Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1882–1920
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1921
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Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн
Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1938
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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
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Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский
Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1888–1938
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Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский
Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism'
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1890–1946
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V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский
Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1918
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Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева
A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1932