People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
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The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Елена Дмитриевна Стасова The early Secretariat’s practical organizer
- Semyon Ivanovich Balashov Семён Иванович Балашов Bolshevik leader of Ivanovo-Voznesensk who built the first soviet alongside Frunze during the 1905 general strike
- Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotieva Лидия Александровна Фотиева Lenin's personal secretary and conduit of his final political struggle
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock
- Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial
- Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов The organizer who linked party and state after October
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow
- Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography
- Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak
- Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin Мартемьян Никитич Рютин Right Oppositionist who authored the 'Ryutin Platform': the last organized intra-party call to remove Stalin
- Vladimir Ivanovich Polonsky Владимир Иванович Полонский Bolshevik Orgotdel chief and trade-union officer purged in 1937
- Klavdiya Ivanovna Nikolaeva Клавдия Ивановна Николаева The printworker who rose to the Central Committee: a proletarian woman revolutionary
- Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin Пётр Иванович Смородин The worker-Bolshevik who built the Komsomol's mass base and made 'study' its watchword
- Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov Борис Георгиевич Бажанов The only defector from Stalin's Secretariat, chronicler of Politburo secrets
- Nikolai Pavlovich Chaplin Николай Павлович Чаплин The boy commissar who built the Komsomol into the party's youth-training apparatus