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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union
1888–1936
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Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов
The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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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
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Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов
Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович
Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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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
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Martin Ivanovich Lācis Mārtiņš Lācis
Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and theorist of class-based Red Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1888–1938
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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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Anton Semyonovich Makarenko Антон Семёнович Макаренко
Educator who raised street children through labour and self-rule: one of UNESCO's four great 20th-c. pedagogues
Education · Soviet Union
1888–1939
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Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников
The finance commissar of NEP stabilization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1939
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Mikhail Moiseyevich Kaganovich Михаил Моисеевич Каганович
Builder of Soviet defence industry in the shadow of his brother Lazar
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1888–1941
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Isaac Zakharyevich Steinberg Исаак Захарович Штейнберг
First People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin: the Left SR who defended revolutionary legality against the Cheka
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1888–1957
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Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov Иван Терентьевич Голяков
Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court through the Great Terror and war
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1888–1961
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник
Formal head of state in late Stalinism
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1888–1970
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Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev Андрей Николаевич Туполев
"Ugly planes don't fly." The father of Soviet metal aviation.
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1888–1972
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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
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Arkady Pavlovich Rozengolts Аркадий Павлович Розенгольц
Bolshevik who built the Soviet Air Force and ran foreign trade
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1889–1938
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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
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Moisei Lvovich Rukhimovich Моисей Львович Рухимович
The industrial builder Lenin trusted; first People's Commissar for Defence Industry
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1889–1938
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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
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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
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Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган
The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1889–1939
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Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов
Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1889–1939
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Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский
The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1889–1941
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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
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Vasily Vasilievich Ulrikh Василий Васильевич Ульрих
Presiding judge of the Moscow show trials, Stalin's 'judicial guillotine'
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1889–1951
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Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis Лев Захарович Мехлис
From Stalin's personal secretary to the Red Army's purge enforcer, nicknamed 'the Inquisitor of the Red Army'
Military command · Soviet Union
1889–1953
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Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе
Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1889–1960
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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
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Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский
The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Boris Mironovich Feldman Борис Миронович Фельдман
One of the eight Tukhachevsky-trial defendants; his confession under torture started the chain reaction that consumed the Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов
Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков
The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine
1890–1937
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Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг
Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис
Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine
1890–1937
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Grigory Fedorovich Grinko Григорий Фёдорович Гринько
From Ukrainian Borotbist to People's Commissar of Finance: the man who funded the Five-Year Plans
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1890–1938
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Lev Natanovich Kritsman Лев Натанович Крицман
The agrarian Marxist who theorized War Communism
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1890–1938
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Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher Василий Константинович Блюхер
“Order of the Red Banner No. 1”: Civil War hero and one of the first five marshals, extinguished in Lefortovo
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1938
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Robert Indrikovich Eikhe Роберт Индрикович Эйхе
Architect of terror in Siberia, recanted his confession under torture
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1890–1940
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Johannes Vares Johannes Vares
Poet and doctor whom Zhdanov forced on Estonia as puppet prime minister in June 1940, and who led the petition to join the Soviet Union
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1890–1946
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Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский
Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism'
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1890–1946
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Grigory Ivanovich Kulik Григорий Иванович Кулик
Stalin's artillery chief from Tsaritsyn: Marshal who blocked the T-34, KV-1 and Katyusha
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1950
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Vitaly Grigorievich Khlopin Виталий Григорьевич Хлопин
The radiochemist who led the Radium Institute and laid the institutional foundations of Soviet nuclear physics
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1890–1950
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Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди
Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1970
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов
“Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1890–1986
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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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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
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Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов
Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1891–1937
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Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис
The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within
Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1891–1937
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Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов
NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1891–1938