People of the Revolution and the USSR
Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
Background: Russia
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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GlossaryParty of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
- Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв Tsarist officer turned Red commander who took Kyiv, battled in Bessarabia, and rebelled against Brest-Litovsk
- Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left
- Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land
- Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile
- Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare
- 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
- Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations
- Boris Mikhailovich Donskoy Борис Михайлович Донской Left SR sailor who killed the German field marshal Eichhorn with a bomb in Kiev in 1918 and was hanged
- Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky
- Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920