People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
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- Vera Nikolayevna Figner Вера Николаевна Фигнер Last survivor of the Narodnaya Volya Executive Committee who spent 20 years in solitary confinement and wrote its definitive memoir
- Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander
- Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed
- Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile
- Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
- Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution'
- Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves
- Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service
- Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations
- Boris Ignatyevich Arvatov Борис Игнатьевич Арватов The Saint-Just of the avant-garde, theorist of production art
- Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage
- Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky