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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 46 Government and administration 12 Legislature and state representation 2 Military command 23 Security, intelligence and policing 17 Diplomacy and international organization 12 Economy, finance and planning 19 Industry and production 3 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 11 Social movements and organizing 63 Scholarship and theory 2 Education 1 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 2 Law and justice 8

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 3 Party Secretariat and cadres 15

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 208 Soviet Union state institutions 167 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 106 Left Opposition 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 13 Comintern 8 Soviet Ukraine state institutions 6

All 26 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutions 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 30 Anarchists 1 Marxism and communism 176

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 202 Russia 6

Background

Any Russia 137 Ukraine 19 Poland 10 Belarus 7 Georgia 7 Latvia 6 Lithuania 4 Armenia 3 Moldova 3 Estonia 2 Germany 2 Uzbekistan 2 Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Kazakhstan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 208 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 349 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 310 The last generation1985–1991 162

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 18 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 6 Scholars of this history1892–현재 2

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

208 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1918
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1878–1924
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1937
Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин 'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1941
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1958
Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1879–1925
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1938
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1940
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1936
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1948
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1880–1969
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 state institutions 1881–1925
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1936
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1938
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotieva Лидия Александровна Фотиева Lenin's personal secretary and conduit of his final political struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1975
Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1922
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1932
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1937
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1938
Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1938
Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1938
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1941
Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1952
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1919
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1921
Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1927
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1938
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1940
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1973
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1927
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1936

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