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Activity

Any Political and party leadership 24 Government and administration 17 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 30 Security, intelligence and policing 6 Economy, finance and planning 3 Industry and production 2 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 2 Social movements and organizing 24 Scholarship and theory 17 Literature and arts 10 Religion 4 Law and justice 6

Affiliation

Most people

Any Russian Empire state institutions 48 Russian White movement 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 15 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 Narodnaya Volya 5 Russian Provisional Government state institutions 4

All 16 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 48 Russian White movement 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 15 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 5 Russian Provisional Government state institutions 4 Russian Orthodox Church 4 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 Soviet Union state institutions 1

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 62 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Anarchists 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 17 Narodniks 13 Russian revolutionary democrats 6 Marxism and communism 8 Revolutionary socialism 1 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Nationalism 2

Citizenship(set)

Any Russia 130 Soviet Union 15 Georgia 1 United States 1

Background

Any Russia 114 Ukraine 6 Germany 3 Armenia 2 Georgia 2 Poland 2 Kazakhstan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 130 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 12 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 3 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 5 The last generation1985–1991 13

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 5 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 9 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 25

Citizenship: Russia The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917 Clear all

130 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский Literary critic called the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia Literature and arts 1811–1848
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen Александр Иванович Герцен Founder of Russian peasant socialism, publisher of The Bell Scholarship and theory 1812–1870
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev Николай Платонович Огарёв Russian utopian socialist theorist who co-edited Kolokol with Herzen Scholarship and theory 1813–1877
Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin Дмитрий Алексеевич Милютин The Great Reforms' military architect, who forged Russia's army into a modern conscript force over twenty years as war minister Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1816–1912
Alexander Nikolayevich II Александр Николаевич II The Tsar who tried to modernize the old regime from above through emancipation and reform, and became the revolutionaries' prime target Monarchs and royalty · Russian Empire state institutions 1818–1881
Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Михаил Никифорович Катков The 'thunderer of Russia' who swayed opinion and court through the Russian Messenger and Moscow News Literature and arts 1818–1887
Nikolai Alexeyevich Nekrasov Николай Алексеевич Некрасов Poet-publisher who sang the peasants' suffering and turned Pushkin's Sovremennik into the center of revolutionary literature Literature and arts 1821–1878
Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky Николай Яковлевич Данилевский Pan-Slavist philosopher who theorized cultural-historical types to argue for Russia's civilizational distinctiveness Scholarship and theory 1822–1885
Pyotr Lavrovich Lavrov Пётр Лаврович Лавров Foundational theorist of Narodnik philosophy whose Historical Letters declared the intelligentsia's 'debt to the people' Scholarship and theory 1823–1900
Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov Михаил Тариелович Лорис-Меликов Armenian-born reformist minister called the "dictator of the heart" Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1824–1888
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 19th-century Russia's greatest satirist, who mercilessly ridiculed autocracy and serfdom Literature and arts 1826–1889
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed Ideology and propaganda · Russian Empire state institutions 1827–1907
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский The revolutionary democrat whose What Is to Be Done? remade Lenin and shaped a generation of revolutionaries Scholarship and theory 1828–1889
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Лев Николаевич Толстой The Count who wrote War and Peace, then declared war on the state and the Church Literature and arts 1828–1910
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov Николай Фёдорович Фёдоров The founder of Russian cosmism who made the resurrection of the dead into a scientific common task of humanity Scholarship and theory 1829–1903
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov Николай Александрович Добролюбов The literary critic who died at 25 but became the teacher of an entire generation of Russian revolutionaries Scholarship and theory 1836–1861
Ivan Logginovich Goremykin Иван Логгинович Горемыкин The empire's last prime minister who believed doing nothing would save autocracy Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1839–1917
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev Дмитрий Иванович Писарев The standard-bearer of Russian nihilism who declared that what can be smashed must be smashed Literature and arts 1840–1868
Nikolai Konstantinovich Mikhailovsky Николай Константинович Михайловский The narodnik intelligentsia's 'ruler of thoughts,' founder of the subjective method in sociology and the theory of heroes and the crowd Scholarship and theory 1842–1904
Pyotr Nikitich Tkachev Пётр Никитич Ткачёв The Russian Jacobin Narodnik who first theorized a conspiratorial vanguard dictatorship, precursor to Leninist party doctrine Scholarship and theory 1844–1886
Catherine Konstantinovna Breshkovsky Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская 'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution' who endured 44 years of prison and exile; co-founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1844–1934
Alexander Alexandrovich III Александр Александрович III The 'Peacemaker' who reversed the Great Reforms and re-established autocracy as the unshakeable creed of the Russian state Monarchs and royalty · Russian Empire state institutions 1845–1894
Fyodor Vasilyevich Dubasov Фёдор Васильевич Дубасов Imperial Russian admiral who crushed the Moscow December uprising with artillery fire Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1845–1912
Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo Пётр Николаевич Дурново The imperial interior minister who crushed the 1905 Revolution and foretold Russia's collapse in the Great War Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1845–1915
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve Вячеслав Константинович фон Плеве The last hardline Interior Minister of tsarism, who urged a "small victorious war" to hold back revolution Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1846–1904
Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев Author of the Catechism of a Revolutionary, the nihilist who demanded total sacrifice for the revolutionary cause Social movements and organizing 1847–1882
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky Николай Егорович Жуковский The 'Father of Russian Aviation' who gave aerodynamics its mathematical foundations, built Russia's first wind tunnel, and founded TsAGI Scholarship and theory 1847–1921
Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky Зиновий Петрович Рожественский The Imperial Russian admiral who led the Baltic Fleet to catastrophe at Tsushima Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1848–1909
Sergei Yulyevich Witte Сергей Юльевич Витте The fixer his Tsar could not forgive Economy, finance and planning · Russian Empire state institutions 1849–1915
Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev Сергей Андреевич Муромцев The Roman law scholar and Kadet leader who chaired Russia's first constitutional parliament Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1850–1910
Mark Andreyevich Natanson Марк Андреевич Натансон The great unifier of the Russian revolutionary movement, from the Chaikovtsy to the Left SRs Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1850–1919
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn Николай Дмитриевич Голицын The last premier of the empire, who begged to be excused Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1850–1925
Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov Андрей Иванович Желябов The Narodnaya Volya leader who organized the assassination of Alexander II and declared his party's creed to the court that condemned him Political and party leadership · Narodnaya Volya 1851–1881
Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinsky Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский He killed the tsar's gendarme chief with a dagger, then introduced the Russian revolution to the West with his pen Literature and arts 1851–1895
Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich Николай Иванович Кибальчич Narodnaya Volya's chief explosives expert who designed the bombs that killed Alexander II and sketched a manned rocket from his death cell Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1853–1881
Sofia Lvovna Perovskaya Софья Львовна Перовская Narodnaya Volya leader who directed the tsar's assassination with a white handkerchief; first woman executed for a political crime in Russia Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1853–1881
Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov Владимир Викторович Сахаров Cavalry general who led the 11th Army in the Brusilov Offensive and joined the White movement Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1853–1920
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko Владимир Галактионович Короленко The conscience of Russian letters who rejected both tsar and Bolshevik Literature and arts 1853–1921
Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov Алексей Алексеевич Брусилов Designer of the 1916 Brusilov Offensive and the last great tsarist commander, who later joined the Red Army Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1853–1926
Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky Николай Владимирович Рузский The Northern Front commander who forced the Tsar's abdication at Pskov Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1854–1918
Fyodor Izmailovich Rodichev Фёдор Измайлович Родичев Kadet orator who branded the gallows 'Stolypin's necktie' Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1854–1933
Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov Дмитрий Фёдорович Трепов The face of 1905: repression orders in one hand, reform promises in the other Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1855–1906
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Георгий Валентинович Плеханов The father of Russian Marxism: against his own pupils’ revolution Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1856–1918
Nicholas Nikolaevich Romanov Николай Николаевич Романов The Grand Duke who drew a revolver on the Tsar and forced constitutional reform Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1856–1929
Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirsky Пётр Дмитриевич Святополк-Мирский The interior minister whose 'era of trust' promised reform, and ended in Bloody Sunday Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1857–1914
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev Михаил Васильевич Алексеев The tsar's last chief of staff, who commanded the Eastern Front and laid the foundation of the White Volunteer Army Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1857–1918
Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov Сергей Семёнович Хабалов Last commander of the Petrograd Military District, who ordered troops to fire on crowds and then lost control of the garrison Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1858–1929
Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko Михаил Владимирович Родзянко The parliamentarian the Tsar called 'fat-bellied': last chairman of the Imperial Duma Political and party leadership · Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1859–1924
Alexey Maksimovich Kaledin Алексей Максимович Каледин Don Cossack ataman who opened the first White stronghold in the south Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1861–1918
Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov Георгий Евгеньевич Львов A scion of Rurik, the Empire's last liberal premier Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1861–1925

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