People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 1 Security, intelligence and policing 2 Ideology and propaganda 1 Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 60 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 49 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5 People’s Republic of Chinastate 5 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 4 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Hungarystate 3 Soviet Ukrainestate 2 General Jewish Labour Bund 1

All 23 affiliations

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Benin

Beninstate 1

China

Communist Party of China 2 People’s Republic of Chinastate 5

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 4 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 3 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 2 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 2

International organizations

Comintern 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 49 Soviet Unionstate 60

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 2 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Russia 1
Background
Any Russia 1
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 1
Ideology and propaganda General Jewish Labour Bund Clear all
GlossaryGeneral Jewish Labour Bund

V. Markovich Volodarsky

В. Маркович Володарский
Soviet Union Soviet communism Russia Russia 1891–1918 ✕ Assassinated

Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror

“Comrades, do you think I am looking at my watch? No — I am looking at the clock of humanity, the clock of the world revolution.”

Petrograd's Commissar for Press and Propaganda and a magnetic crowd orator who built the Bolshevik censorship apparatus and founded Krasnaya Gazeta. Shot dead by an SR militant on 20 June 1918, his assassination, alongside Uritsky's murder and the attempt on Lenin, became the spark for the full-scale Red Terror.

Career timeline
  • 1905Joins the Bund at 14; expelled from gymnasium for unreliability
  • 1908–1911Social Democratic agitator in Volhynia and Podolia
  • 1911–1913Exiled to Pinega; freed under 1913 Romanov amnesty
  • 1913–1917US emigration: Philadelphia garment worker; co-publishes Novy Mir
  • 1917.05Returns to Russia, joins the Mezhraiontsy
  • 1917.06–08Joins Bolsheviks via Mezhraiontsy; chief agitator; VI Congress delegate
  • 1917.09–10Petrograd Soviet Presidium; October rising
  • 1917.11–1918.06VTsIK Presidium; Commissar for Press/Propaganda; founds Krasnaya Gazeta