People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
Background: Poland
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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- Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed
- Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword
- Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer
- Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow
- Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications