People of the Revolution and the USSR
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917
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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
- Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Георгий Валентинович Плеханов The father of Russian Marxism: against his own pupils’ revolution
- Nikolay Semyonovich Chkheidze Николай Семёнович Чхеидзе Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet in the dual-power era, face of revolutionary defencism
- Viktor Konstantinovich Kurnatovsky Виктор Константинович Курнатовский One of Russia's first Marxists, from Narodnaya Volya to leader of the 1905 Chita Republic
- Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova Екатерина Дмитриевна Кускова A publicist who moved between reformist socialism and anti-party politics
- Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia
- Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich Сергей Николаевич Прокопович An economist who analysed the tension between markets and state control
- Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman Николай Эрнестович Бауман The 'Rook' who flew across borders building the Iskra network, and the revolution's first martyr
- Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker
- Alexander Alekseevich Vannovsky Александр Алексеевич Ванновский A revolutionary who turned to Japanese literature and philosophy
- Roman Vatslavovich Malinovsky Роман Вацлавович Малиновский Bolshevik Central Committee member and Duma leader who was the Okhrana's best-paid spy
- Georgy Stepanovich Khrustalev-Nosar Георгий Степанович Носарь A non-party workers' lawyer elected the first chairman of the Petersburg Soviet in 1905
- Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
- Nikolai Pavlovich Shmit Николай Павлович Шмит The young furniture-factory heir whose plant became the heart of the Presnya uprising
- Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky Владимир Савельевич Войтинский A social democrat who changed course between revolution and economics