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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography
- Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment
- Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated
- Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography
- Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance
- Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself
- Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right
- Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy
- Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control
- V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror
- Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence