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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Catherine Konstantinovna Breshkovsky Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская
'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution' who endured 44 years of prison and exile; co-founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1844–1934
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Eugene V. Debs Eugene V. Debs
Five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and pioneer of industrial railroad unionism
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Party of America
1855–1926
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Carl Legien Carl Legien
German trade-union leader who signed the 1918 agreement with Stinnes and met the Kapp Putsch of 1920 with a general strike
Social movements and organizing · Independent activity
1861–1920
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Kurt Eisner Kurt Eisner
Journalist who overthrew the Bavarian monarchy in Munich in November 1918, proclaimed the People’s State and was assassinated the next year
Social movements and organizing · Germany state institutions
1867–1919
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James Connolly James Connolly
He raised the workers' flag and the republic's on a single staff
Social movements and organizing · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
1868–1916
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Yevno Fishelevich Azef Евно Фишелевич Азеф
The Okhrana's paid informant who led the revolution's terrorist vanguard
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1869–1918
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Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer
Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum
Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions
1870–1944
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Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi
Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1873–1963
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Ivan Platonovich Kalyaev Иван Платонович Каляев
The poet-bomber who stayed his hand seeing the Grand Duchess and children: the 'ethical terrorist' behind Camus' Les Justes
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1877–1905
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Jan Sierada Ян Серада
Veterinarian who chaired the First All-Belarusian Congress and, as chairman of the Rada, presided over the declaration of independence
Legislature and state representation · Belarus state institutions
1879–1943 이후
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Léon Jouhaux Léon Jouhaux
The syndicalist who led the CGT for 31 years, signed the Matignon Agreements and won the Nobel Peace Prize
Social movements and organizing · General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France)
1879–1954
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Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin
A pragmatic statesman who carried trade-union power into postwar diplomacy
Social movements and organizing · Labour Party (United Kingdom)
1881–1951
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Robert Grimm Robert Grimm
Swiss socialist who organised the Zimmerwald anti-war conference of 1915 and chaired the International Socialist Commission
Social movements and organizing
1881–1958
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин
Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1882–1906
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Anton Luckievič Антон Луцкевіч
Founder of the Hramada who, as prime minister of the Belarusian People’s Republic, sought its recognition at the Paris Peace Conference
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1884–1942
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Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов
The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1889–1922
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Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан
The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution'
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1890–1918
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Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke
SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west
Social movements and organizing · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1895–1964
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Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer
Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1901–1963
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Micheline Ravololonarisoa Micheline Ravololonarisoa
Malagasy feminist socialist leader of the 1972 student movement
Social movements and organizing