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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 628 Government and administration 304 Legislature and state representation 70 Monarchs and royalty 24 Military command 520 Security, intelligence and policing 232 Diplomacy and international organization 163 Economy, finance and planning 147 Industry and production 110 Agriculture and land policy 36 Ideology and propaganda 103 Social movements and organizing 374 Scholarship and theory 278 Education 17 Science and technology 146 Literature and arts 141 Religion 20 Law and justice 55

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 13 Soviet Unionstate 9 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 7 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 5 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3 Turkey state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party of China 2

All 21 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 2

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 7

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 13 Soviet Unionstate 9

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 2

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

United States

Socialist Party of America 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 4 Socialist-bloc reform leader 8 Dissident 4 Anarchists 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 14 Narodniks 7 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Russian revolutionary democrats 4 Western Marxist theorists 10 Marxism and communism 44 Early socialism 3 Revolutionary socialism 1 Liberalism and republicanism 8 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1 Nationalism 6

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 70 United States 67 Russia 47 United Kingdom 30 France 10 Germany 8 China 6 Czechoslovakia 4 Hungary 4 Ukraine 3 Finland 2 Israel 2 Poland 2 Spain 2 Yugoslavia 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Austria 1 Belarus 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Cuba 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Ethiopia 1 Guyana 1 Ireland 1 Italy 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Somalia 1 Switzerland 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1

Background

Any Russia 105 United States 46 United Kingdom 28 Germany 11 France 8 China 7 Ukraine 6 Armenia 5 Hungary 5 Poland 5 Czechoslovakia 4 Georgia 4 Finland 3 Belarus 2 Croatia 2 Cuba 2 Czechia 2 Estonia 2 India 2 Ireland 2 Latvia 2 Lithuania 2 Spain 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Ethiopia 1 Guyana 1 Israel 1 Italy 1 Japan 1 Martinique 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Somalia 1 South Africa 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 23 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 13 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 19 The last generation1985–1991 12

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 2 People of the Mao era1949–1976 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 13 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 17 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 11 Scholars of this history1892–현재 151

Scholarship and theory

278 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Henri de Saint-Simon Henri de Saint-Simon French thinker who held that society should be led by its productive “industrials” Scholarship and theory 1760–1825
Robert Owen Robert Owen Social reformer who emphasized education and cooperation Scholarship and theory 1771–1858
Charles Fourier Charles Fourier French social thinker who designed the cooperative phalanstery Scholarship and theory 1772–1837
Adolphe Thiers Adolphe Thiers July Monarchy premier who as chief executive in 1871 crushed the Paris Commune and became the Third Republic’s first president Scholarship and theory · Independent activity 1797–1877
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen Александр Иванович Герцен Founder of Russian peasant socialism, publisher of The Bell Scholarship and theory 1812–1870
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev Николай Платонович Огарёв Russian utopian socialist theorist who co-edited Kolokol with Herzen Scholarship and theory 1813–1877
Karl Marx Karl Marx Author of Capital and leader of the First International Scholarship and theory 1818–1883
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels Marx's co-author and patron; author of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific Scholarship and theory 1820–1895
Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky Николай Яковлевич Данилевский Pan-Slavist philosopher who theorized cultural-historical types to argue for Russia's civilizational distinctiveness Scholarship and theory 1822–1885
Pyotr Lavrovich Lavrov Пётр Лаврович Лавров Foundational theorist of Narodnik philosophy whose Historical Letters declared the intelligentsia's 'debt to the people' Scholarship and theory 1823–1900
Ferdinand Lassalle Ferdinand Lassalle Founder of the ADAV, Germany's first workers' party Scholarship and theory 1825–1864
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский The revolutionary democrat whose What Is to Be Done? remade Lenin and shaped a generation of revolutionaries Scholarship and theory 1828–1889
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov Николай Фёдорович Фёдоров The founder of Russian cosmism who made the resurrection of the dead into a scientific common task of humanity Scholarship and theory 1829–1903
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov Николай Александрович Добролюбов The literary critic who died at 25 but became the teacher of an entire generation of Russian revolutionaries Scholarship and theory 1836–1861
Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray Journalist who fought on the Commune’s last barricade and wrote the History of the Paris Commune of 1871 in exile Scholarship and theory · Independent activity 1838–1901
Nikolai Konstantinovich Mikhailovsky Николай Константинович Михайловский The narodnik intelligentsia's 'ruler of thoughts,' founder of the subjective method in sociology and the theory of heroes and the crowd Scholarship and theory 1842–1904
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин Rurikid prince, founder of anarcho-communism, geographer of Mutual Aid: escaped the Peter and Paul Fortress Scholarship and theory 1842–1921
Pyotr Nikitich Tkachev Пётр Никитич Ткачёв The Russian Jacobin Narodnik who first theorized a conspiratorial vanguard dictatorship, precursor to Leninist party doctrine Scholarship and theory 1844–1886
Franz Erdmann Mehring Franz Mehring The elder theoretician of German Marxism: historian, literary critic, and Spartacus League co-founder Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1846–1919
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky Николай Егорович Жуковский The 'Father of Russian Aviation' who gave aerodynamics its mathematical foundations, built Russia's first wind tunnel, and founded TsAGI Scholarship and theory 1847–1921
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich Вера Ивановна Засулич From a narodnik revolver to Marxist criticism, half a century of one woman's revolutionary life Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1849–1919
Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein Founder of Marxist revisionism and evolutionary socialism, author of The Preconditions of Socialism Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1850–1932
Karl Johann Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky Chief theoretician of orthodox Marxism in the Second International, founding editor of Die Neue Zeit, editor of Marx's Capital Vol. IV Scholarship and theory · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1854–1938
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Иван Владимирович Мичурин Self-taught plant breeder whose name was hijacked by Lysenko Scholarship and theory 1855–1935
Lev Grigorievich Deitch Лев Григорьевич Дейч Co-founder of the Emancipation of Labour group and a Menshevik pioneer at the origins of Russian Marxism Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1855–1941
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Георгий Валентинович Плеханов The father of Russian Marxism: against his own pupils’ revolution Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1856–1918
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Константин Эдуардович Циолковский From a deaf provincial teacher to the father of cosmonautics. The self-taught visionary whose rocket equation opened the space age Scholarship and theory 1857–1935
Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev Владимир Львович Бурцев 'Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution' who serially exposed Tsarist secret police agents provocateurs Scholarship and theory 1862–1942
Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский From Legal Marxism to ethical socialism: the economist who pioneered business cycle theory Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1865–1919
Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr Николай Яковлевич Марр Creator of the Japhetic theory who, as the sole Imperial academician to join the Communist Party, dominated Soviet linguistics for decades Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1865–1934
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Михайло Грушевський Historian who wrote Ukraine as a distinct historical subject, and chairman of the Central Rada Scholarship and theory 1866–1934
Alexander Lvovich Parvus Александр Львович Парвус Co-author of permanent revolution who arranged Lenin's sealed train: the 'merchant of revolution' Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1867–1924
W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois "Capitalism cannot reform itself": father of the modern Negro liberation movement who joined the Communist Party at 93 Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1868–1963
Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon Михаил Осипович Гершензон Russian cultural historian who launched the Vekhi collection and urged the intelligentsia toward spiritual self-awareness Scholarship and theory 1869–1925
Väinö Voionmaa Väinö Voionmaa A historian who linked scholarship with social democracy Scholarship and theory 1869–1947
Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova Екатерина Дмитриевна Кускова A publicist who moved between reformist socialism and anti-party politics Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1869–1958
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
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
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov Сергей Николаевич Булгаков The Marxist economist who became a priest and built the theological system of Sophia Scholarship and theory 1871–1944
Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich Сергей Николаевич Прокопович An economist who analysed the tension between markets and state control Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1871–1955
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
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Николай Александрович Бердяев A Russian thinker who left Marxism to found a Christian existentialist philosophy of freedom Scholarship and theory 1874–1948
Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle Евгений Викторович Тарле Historian of Napoleon who won world renown, survived Academic Case exile, and returned under Stalin's personal protection Scholarship and theory 1874–1955
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1876–1937
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
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
Sadri Maksudi Садри Максуди Tatar lawyer and Duma deputy who headed the national administration of Idel-Ural Political and party leadership 1878–1957
Evgeny Samuilovich Varga Varga Jenő The Marxist economist who predicted the Great Depression, and was punished for arguing capitalism could adapt Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1879–1964
Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1880–1937

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