People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Background: Belarus
The revolutionary generation 1917–1940
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography
- Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich Пётр Гермогенович Смидович Iskra agent across three revolutions, KOMZET chairman who shaped Soviet nationality policy and the Birobidzhan Jewish experiment
- Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom
- Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock
- Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia
- Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov Александр Григорьевич Червяков Architect of Byelorussian Soviet statehood who turned the gun on himself