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29 people

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Andrei Yevgenyevich Snesarev Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев Tsarist general turned Red Army theorist who clashed with Stalin at Tsaritsyn Military command · Soviet Union 1865–1937
Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich Михаил Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич The first Imperial general to join the Bolsheviks: military director who led the founding of the Red Army Military command · Soviet Union 1870–1956
Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev Павел Павлович Лебедев From tsarist major general to first Chief of the Red Army Staff, operational architect of Civil War victory Military command · Soviet Union 1872–1933
Jukums Ioakimovich Vācietis Jukums Иоакимович Vācietis The Red Army's first commander-in-chief: an Imperial colonel who built the revolutionary armed forces Military command · Soviet Union 1873–1938
Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line Military command · Soviet Union 1874–1933
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union 1879–1940
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1948
Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1969
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
Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt Military command · Soviet Union 1883–1938
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 1883–1973
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer Military command · Soviet Union 1885–1925
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1885–1938
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
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
Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев A Red Army commander shaped by the air war Military command · Soviet Union 1887–1934
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
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man Military command · Soviet Union 1889–1938
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
Yan Karlovich Berzin Jānis Ян Карлович Берзин Bērziņš The Latvian Bolshevik who built Soviet military intelligence and was consumed by the purges Military command · Soviet Union 1889–1938
Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away Military command · Soviet Union 1890–1918
Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations Military command · Soviet Union 1891–1920
Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism Military command · Soviet Union 1892–1925
Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1920
Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable' Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1965
Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev' Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1919
Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Vitaly Markovich Primakov Виталий Маркович Примаков Commander of the Red Cossacks and the Soviet 'Red Lawrence' who led the covert 1929 intervention in Afghanistan Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Ivan Semyonovich Kutyakov Иван Семёнович Кутяков Chapayev's successor and Civil War hero who outlived his usefulness to Stalin Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1938