People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Nikolay Semyonovich Chkheidze Николай Семёнович Чхеидзе
Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet in the dual-power era, face of revolutionary defencism
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1864–1926
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Noe Zhordania ნოე ჟორდანია
Leader of the Georgian Mensheviks who headed the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918–1921
Political and party leadership · Georgia state institutions
1868–1953
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Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов
One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1869–1934
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Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан
Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1871–1947
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Julius Osipovich Martov Юлий Осипович Мартов
Lenin’s oldest friend and most principled adversary
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1873–1923
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Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი
Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Diplomacy and international organization · Georgia state institutions
1881–1954
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Irakli Georgievich Tsereteli ირაკლი წერეთელი
Architect of Revolutionary Defencism and the man to whom Lenin replied, 'There is such a party!'
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1881–1959
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов
Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising
Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1882–1940
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко
He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев
The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1885–1938
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Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков
Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1888–1927
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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Игорь Евгеньевич Тамм
From the H-bomb to the tokamak: theoretical physicist of two nuclear ages
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1895–1971