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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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Mark Andreyevich Natanson Марк Андреевич Натансон
The great unifier of the Russian revolutionary movement, from the Chaikovtsy to the Left SRs
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1850–1919
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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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Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni Григорий Андреевич Гершуни
The 'Tiger of the Revolution' who founded the SR Combat Organization
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1870–1908
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Pavel Nikolaevich Pereverzev Павел Николаевич Переверзев
A lawyer who crossed the boundary between law and politics in revolution
Law and justice · Russian Provisional Government
1871–1944
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Semyon Leontyevich Maslov Семён Леонтьевич Маслов
A Socialist-Revolutionary agrarian thinker who championed peasant cooperation
Agriculture and land policy · Russian Provisional Government
1873–1938
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Victor Mikhailovich Chernov Виктор Михайлович Чернов
Founder and chief theoretician of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1873–1952
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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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Nikolai Dmitriyevich Avksentiev Николай Дмитриевич Авксентьев
SR Party founder who chaired the last unified anti-Bolshevik government, overthrown by Kolchak
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1878–1943
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Boris Savinkov Борис Савинков
Terrorist, Counter-Revolutionary: the Black Horse of the Revolution
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1879–1925
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov Владимир Михайлович Зензинов
A Socialist Revolutionary who defended democratic socialism through exile and testimony
Literature and arts · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1880–1953
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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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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky Александр Фёдорович Керенский
The orator ground away between revolution and counter-revolution
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1881–1970
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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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Abram Rafailovich Gots Абрам Рафаилович Гоц
SR Combat Organization veteran who chaired the first-convocation VTsIK in 1917
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1882–1940
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов
Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising
Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1882–1940
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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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Pan Halippa Pan Halippa
Journalist and politician who, as vice-president and later president of Sfatul Țării, led the movement for Bessarabia’s union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1883–1979
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Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț
Bessarabian politician who presided over Sfatul Țării and the Moldavian Democratic Republic and saw through its union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1940
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Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова
Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1884–1941
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Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan
Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first
Government and administration · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1971
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Boris Davidovich Kamkov Борис Давидович Камков
Co-founder and chief theoretician of the Left SR Party: from coalition with the Bolsheviks to the July 1918 uprising
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1885–1938
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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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Isaac Zakharyevich Steinberg Исаак Захарович Штейнберг
First People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin: the Left SR who defended revolutionary legality against the Cheka
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1888–1957
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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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Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Питирим Александрович Сорокин
SR leader imprisoned by both Tsar and Bolsheviks, who became founder of Harvard's sociology department
Scholarship and theory · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1889–1968
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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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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
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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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Boris Lvovich Vannikov Борис Львович Ванников
Ammunition and atomic administrator under Beria
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1897–1962
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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
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Pyotr Tokmakov Пётр Токмаков
Peasant-born officer who commanded the United Partisan Army of Tambov and chaired the Union of Working Peasantry
Military command · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
?–1921