People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses
- Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built
- Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him
- Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him
- Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name
- Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising
- Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif Павел Александрович Миф Comintern China specialist who cultivated the 28 Bolsheviks