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Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова
Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1921
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Vasily Nikolayevich Kayurov Василий Николаевич Каюров
Vyborg Bolshevik organizer who turned the Women's Day protest into the February Revolution
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1936
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Boris Mikhailovich Eltsin Борис Михайлович Эльцин
A physician of the Left Opposition who shares a name with the first president of Russia
Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1937
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Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский
The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union
1876–1937
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Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин
The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October'
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union
1876–1941
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Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko Николай Нилович Бурденко
Founder of Soviet neurosurgery and Chief Surgeon of the Red Army
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1876–1946
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Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка
The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1876–1947
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Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов
The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1876–1951
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Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе
Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1877–1937
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Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов
The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum
Military command · Soviet Union
1877–1937
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Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани
The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization
Government and administration · Georgia state institutions
1877–1937
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Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин
The economist who designed socialism in numbers
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1877–1974
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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
1878–1918
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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
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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
1878–1937
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Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин
“The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1938
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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
1878–1938
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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
1878–1938
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Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский
The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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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
1878–1941
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Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский
The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest'
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1943
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Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский
IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1945
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Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский
The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1878–1952
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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
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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
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Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова
The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor
Political and party leadership · Comintern
1878–1965
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Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош
First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine
1879–1925
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Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий
Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1879–1937
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Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт
From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1879–1938
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Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий
The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe
Military command · Soviet Union
1879–1940
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Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой
Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1879–1947
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Evgeny Samuilovich Varga Varga Jenő
The Marxist economist who predicted the Great Depression, and was punished for arguing capitalism could adapt
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union
1879–1964
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Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский
A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1879–1967
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Vincas Kapsukas Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas
Founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party who headed Soviet Lithuania and Litbel
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1880–1935
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Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский
Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1880–1936
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Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen
Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918
Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP)
1880–1937
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Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев
The Soviet Union's greatest fortification scientist, who chose martyrdom at Mauthausen over collaboration with the Nazis
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1945
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Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский
The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1948
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Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov Василий Алексеевич Дегтярёв
Founder of Soviet firearms design, creator of the DP-27, DShK, and PTRD
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1880–1949
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко
Ukrainian Social Democratic writer who led the Rada's General Secretariat and the Directory
Government and administration · Ukrainian People's Republic
1880–1951
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Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe Абрам Фёдорович Иоффе
The 'Papa Ioffe' who reared all of Soviet physics
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1880–1960
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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
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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
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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов
Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1969
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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
1881–1925
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Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов
The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1881–1936
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Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев
Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1936
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Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков
Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1881–1938
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Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling
Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1881–1938
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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