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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 88 Government and administration 19 Legislature and state representation 6 Military command 163 Security, intelligence and policing 101 Diplomacy and international organization 44 Economy, finance and planning 83 Industry and production 82 Agriculture and land policy 14 Ideology and propaganda 52 Social movements and organizing 135 Scholarship and theory 24 Education 8 Science and technology 97 Literature and arts 34 Law and justice 21

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 115 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 21 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Soviet Unionstate 2 Comintern 1 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

All 8 affiliations

International organizations

Comintern 1 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Mongolia

Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 21 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 115 Soviet Unionstate 2

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 19 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Anarchists 5 Non-Bolshevik socialists 6 Narodniks 7 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 135 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 124 Russia 11

Background(set)

Any Russia 135 Ukraine 11 Belarus 9 Hungary 8 Poland 8 Georgia 7 France 5 Germany 5 Latvia 5 China 3 Romania 3 Albania 2 Czechia 2 Estonia 2 Finland 2 Korea 2 Lithuania 2 Moldova 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 United States 2 Armenia 1 Azerbaijan 1 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Greece 1 India 1 Martinique 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 1 Uzbekistan 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 5 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 43 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 33 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 36 The last generation1985–1991 16

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1

Social movements and organizing Marxism and communism Background: Russia Clear all

135 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев Author of the Catechism of a Revolutionary, the nihilist who demanded total sacrifice for the revolutionary cause Social movements and organizing 1847–1882
Elisabeth Lukinichna Dmitrieff Елизавета Лукинична Кушелева Russian revolutionary who organized the Paris Commune's Women's Union Social movements and organizing · International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1850–1918?
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
Viktor Konstantinovich Kurnatovsky Виктор Константинович Курнатовский One of Russia's first Marxists, from Narodnaya Volya to leader of the 1905 Chita Republic Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1912
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 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 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
Nikolai Yevgrafovich Fedoseev Николай Евграфович Федосеев Russian revolutionary who organized the first Marxist circles in the Volga region Social movements and organizing 1871–1898
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1959
Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1906
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 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
Mikhail Fyodorovich Vladimirsky Михаил Фёдорович Владимирский Old Bolshevik who watched over the Party's books for a quarter-century Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1951
Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1921
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 1878–1937
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин “The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1938
Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1879–1947
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
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
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
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 1883–1921
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union 1883–1947
Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1954
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
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
Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1949
Sergei Mironovich Kirov Сергей Миронович Киров The Leningrad organizer whose murder became the pretext for the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1934
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
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev Павел Петрович Постышев Stalin's famine envoy and terror executor called the 'hangman of Ukraine', executed in 1939 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1939
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
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
Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
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 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1939
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1888–1970
Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1969
Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin Мартемьян Никитич Рютин Right Oppositionist who authored the 'Ryutin Platform': the last organized intra-party call to remove Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1937
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1952
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1937
Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrebyshev Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев Stalin's shadow: secretary who filtered all information, drafted the 1936 Constitution & Short Course, ran the Special Sector for 25 years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1965
Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1891–1973
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924

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