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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 Unionstate 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 Ukrainestate 6

All 26 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

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

International organizations

Comintern 8

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 2 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 6

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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Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush Industry and production · Soviet Union 1884–1938
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union 1884–1938
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1884–1941
Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union 1884–1965
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов The organizer who linked party and state after October Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1919
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer Military command · Soviet Union 1885–1925
Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1885–1925
Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1885–1938
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Alexander Yakovlevich Parkhomenko Александр Яковлевич Пархоменко Civil War commander who helped defend Tsaritsyn and establish Soviet power in Ukraine Military command · Soviet Union 1886–1921
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1886–1925
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1938
Vasily Vladimirovich Schmidt Василий Владимирович Шмидт The labour commissar who steered the statification of Soviet trade unions Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Yakov Khristoforovich Peters Яков Христофорович Петерс Founding deputy chairman of the Cheka, Honorary Chekist No. 2 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore Military command · Soviet Union 1887–1919
Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1924
Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев A Red Army commander shaped by the air war Military command · Soviet Union 1887–1934
Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1936
Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land Agriculture and land policy · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1937
August Ivanovich Kork Август Иванович Корк Imperial staff officer who rose to the top of the Red Army command Military command · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery Industry and production · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1938
Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1949
Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1960
Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1961
Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1888–1927
Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed Government and administration · Soviet Union 1888–1928
Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский The Red commander of the Urals Military command · Soviet Union 1888–1936
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Semyon Semyonovich Lobov Семён Семёнович Лобов Bolshevik industrial administrator who rose from the Cheka to chair VSNKh RSFSR Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1939
Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1935
Akaki Vissarionovich Kabakhidze Акакий Виссарионович Кабахидзе An Old Bolshevik of the Georgian Affair Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1937
Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1889–1937
Pavel Yefimovich Dybenko Павел Ефимович Дыбенко The first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, whose Baltic sailors tipped the scales in October 1917 Military command · Soviet Union 1889–1938
Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1889–1942
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1969

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