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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Position
Citizenship
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Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский
Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1863–1933
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Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова
Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1864–1935
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский
Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1868–1932
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Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский
Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1868–1944
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Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов
Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1870–1928
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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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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
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V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский
Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1891–1918
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Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева
A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1901–1932