People of the Revolution and the USSR
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Background: Russia
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GlossaryRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
- Vera Ivanovna Zasulich Вера Ивановна Засулич From a narodnik revolver to Marxist criticism, half a century of one woman's revolutionary life
- Lev Grigorievich Deitch Лев Григорьевич Дейч Co-founder of the Emancipation of Labour group and a Menshevik pioneer at the origins of Russian Marxism
- Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography
- Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated
- Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький The stormy petrel, caged
- Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon'
- Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband
- Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин The helmsman who changed course at every fork
- Leonid Borisovich Krasin Леонид Борисович Красин From revolutionary engineer to Soviet diplomatic architect, the only Bolshevik who could do business with Western capital
- Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance
- Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality
- Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia
- Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin
- Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy
- Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business
- Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning
- Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution
- Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire
- Semyon Ivanovich Balashov Семён Иванович Балашов Bolshevik leader of Ivanovo-Voznesensk who built the first soviet alongside Frunze during the 1905 general strike
- Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General
- Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line
- Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis
- Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic
- Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state
- Vasily Nikolayevich Kayurov Василий Николаевич Каюров Vyborg Bolshevik organizer who turned the Women's Day protest into the February Revolution
- Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history
- Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge
- Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum
- Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square
- Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right
- Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system
- Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest'
- Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist
- Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
- Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe
- Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition
- Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran
- Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses
- Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
- Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship
- Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов Stalin’s marshal, sustained by loyalty more than command
- Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement
- Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization
- Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers
- Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy
- Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him
- Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East