People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Citizenship: Russia
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger
- Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day
- Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune
- Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
- V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror
- Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution