People of the Revolution and the USSR

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China

Communist Party of China 2

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Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

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French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

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Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3

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Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Russia

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Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 13 Soviet Unionstate 9

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 2

United Kingdom

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United States

Socialist Party of America 1
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov

Николай Николаевич Суханов
Mensheviks (RSDLP) Communism Soviet Union Russia 1882–1940 ✕ Executed

Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising

"Sukhanov is one of the best representatives of the petty bourgeoisie" — Lenin, Sept 1, 1917

Born Nikolai Gimmer. A founding member of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee after the February Revolution, he belonged to the Menshevik-Internationalists, opposing the war and the Provisional Government while arguing for a united socialist coalition. His seven-volume memoir 'Notes on the Revolution' remains one of the most vivid primary sources on 1917. On October 10, 1917, the Bolshevik CC met in his Petrograd apartment and resolved on armed uprising. Sentenced to 10 years at the 1931 Menshevik Trial and shot on false charges in 1940; posthumously rehabilitated.

Career timeline
  • 1903–1905Joined SR Party; arrested 1904 in Taganka Prison; freed Oct 1905, took part in Moscow December armed uprising
  • 1911–1913Exiled 3 years to Arkhangelsk; compiled agricultural census data
  • 1914–1917Editor of 'Sovremennik' and 'Letopis'; anti-war internationalist; Feb 1917 founding member of Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee, launched first 'Izvestiya'
  • 1917–1918Menshevik-Internationalist; editor of 'Novaya Zhizn'; VTsIK member 2nd–4th convocations; expelled June 1918
  • 1919–1923Wrote and published 7-volume memoir 'Notes on the Revolution' (Записки о революции)
  • 1920–1929Left Menshevik Party; worked in trade agencies & Agrarian Institute; Communist Academy member; 1928 speech opposing forced collectivization
  • 1931Sentenced to 10 years at Menshevik Trial; imprisoned in Verkhneuralsk political isolator
  • 1940Sentenced to death June 29; shot same day in Omsk prison