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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 23 Government and administration 5 Legislature and state representation 1 Military command 10 Security, intelligence and policing 5 Diplomacy and international organization 5 Economy, finance and planning 11 Industry and production 1 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 4 Social movements and organizing 32 Scholarship and theory 2 Education 1 Literature and arts 5 Law and justice 7

Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 208 Soviet Union state institutions 167 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 106 Left Opposition 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 13 Comintern 8 Soviet Ukraine state institutions 6

All 26 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutions 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 19 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 87

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 103 Russia 3

Background

Any Russia 70 Ukraine 10 Georgia 6 Poland 5 Belarus 3 Armenia 2 Germany 2 Latvia 2 Lithuania 2 Azerbaijan 1 Estonia 1 France 1 Moldova 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 16 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 106 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 32

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 4 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 7

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

106 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

GlossaryRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)→

Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1948
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1938
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1922
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1932
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1938
Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1938
Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1938
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 Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1941
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1921
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1941
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1925
Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1938
Alexander Yakovlevich Parkhomenko Александр Яковлевич Пархоменко Civil War commander who helped defend Tsaritsyn and establish Soviet power in Ukraine Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1921
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1925
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1924
Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1936
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский The Red commander of the Urals Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1936
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1935
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Pavel Yefimovich Dybenko Павел Ефимович Дыбенко The first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, whose Baltic sailors tipped the scales in October 1917 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1942
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1890–1937
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1938
Ivar Tenisovich Smilga Ivars Smilga The young oppositionist of the Revolutionary Military Council Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1892–1937
Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1939

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