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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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GlossarySocialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)→
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Catherine Konstantinovna Breshkovsky Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская
'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution' who endured 44 years of prison and exile; co-founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1844–1934
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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
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1852–1942
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Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky Пётр Васильевич Вологодский
A lawyer-statesman who held White Siberia together through compromise
Government and administration · Russian White movement
1863–1925
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Yevno Fishelevich Azef Евно Фишелевич Азеф
The Okhrana's paid informant who led the revolution's terrorist vanguard
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1869–1918
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Georgy Apollonovich Gapon Георгий Аполлонович Гапон
The priest who led the march, and ended a double agent
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1870–1906
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Ivan Platonovich Kalyaev Иван Платонович Каляев
The poet-bomber who stayed his hand seeing the Grand Duchess and children: the 'ethical terrorist' behind Camus' Les Justes
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1877–1905
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Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский
The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1925
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин
Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1882–1906
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум
Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed
Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists)
1882–1945
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Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко
The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order
Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1885–1960
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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
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1960
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Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович
Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов
The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1889–1922
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Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан
The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution'
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1890–1918
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Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди
Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1970
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев
The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1892–1938
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Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский
Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1892–1956
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Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов
The Cheka’s architect of political investigations
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1893–1938
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Boris Ignatyevich Arvatov Борис Игнатьевич Арватов
The Saint-Just of the avant-garde, theorist of production art
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1896–1940
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Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон
The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1899–1981
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Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин
Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1900–1929