People of the Revolution and the USSR
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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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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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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