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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin Михаил Александрович Бакунин
Marx's greatest rival: founder of collectivist anarchism, at the center of the First International's great split
Social movements and organizing
1814–1876
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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
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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
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Elisabeth Lukinichna Dmitrieff Елизавета Лукинична Кушелева
Russian revolutionary who organized the Paris Commune's Women's Union
Social movements and organizing · International Workingmen's Association (First International)
1850–1918?
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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
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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
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Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky Пётр Васильевич Вологодский
A lawyer-statesman who held White Siberia together through compromise
Government and administration · Russian White movement
1863–1925
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Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov Александр Ильич Ульянов
Lenin's elder brother: a gold-medal zoologist who turned from studying worms to building bombs for the assassination of Alexander III
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1866–1887
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Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt Пётр Петрович Шмидт
The revolutionary naval officer who raised the red flag over the Black Sea Fleet and demanded a constitution from the Tsar
Social movements and organizing
1867–1906
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Viktor Konstantinovich Kurnatovsky Виктор Константинович Курнатовский
One of Russia's first Marxists, from Narodnaya Volya to leader of the 1905 Chita Republic
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1868–1912
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Iosif Solomonovich Bleikhman Иосиф Соломонович Блейхман
An anarchist spark in the crisis of 1917
Social movements and organizing
1868–1921
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Yevno Fishelevich Azef Евно Фишелевич Азеф
The Okhrana's paid informant who led the revolution's terrorist vanguard
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1869–1918
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Georgy Apollonovich Gapon Георгий Аполлонович Гапон
The priest who led the march, and ended a double agent
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1870–1906
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Alexander Osipovich Berkman Александр Осипович Беркман
Anarchist writer who served 14 years for the Frick assassination attempt, then broke with the Soviet state
Social movements and organizing
1870–1936
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Nikolai Yevgrafovich Fedoseev Николай Евграфович Федосеев
Russian revolutionary who organized the first Marxist circles in the Volga region
Social movements and organizing
1871–1898
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Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman Николай Эрнестович Бауман
The 'Rook' who flew across borders building the Iskra network, and the revolution's first martyr
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1905
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Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин
The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1906
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Alexander Alekseevich Vannovsky Александр Алексеевич Ванновский
A revolutionary who turned to Japanese literature and philosophy
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1874–1967
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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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Grigory Nikitich Vakulinchuk Григорий Никитич Вакуленчук
The Tsentralka sailor whose killing ignited the Potemkin mutiny; his Odessa funeral became a mass revolutionary demonstration
Social movements and organizing
1877–1905
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Ivan Platonovich Kalyaev Иван Платонович Каляев
The poet-bomber who stayed his hand seeing the Grand Duchess and children: the 'ethical terrorist' behind Camus' Les Justes
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1877–1905
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Georgy Stepanovich Khrustalev-Nosar Георгий Степанович Носарь
A non-party workers' lawyer elected the first chairman of the Petersburg Soviet in 1905
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1877–1919
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Bogdan Mirzadzhanovich Knunyants Богдан Мирзаджанович Кнунянц
Iskra majority delegate at the 2nd Congress, a pioneer Caucasus Bolshevik who died in prison at 32
Social movements and organizing
1878–1911
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Sadri Maksudi Садри Максуди
Tatar lawyer and Duma deputy who headed the national administration of Idel-Ural
Political and party leadership
1878–1957
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Afanasi Nikolayevich Matushenko Афанасий Николаевич Матюшенко
The torpedo quartermaster who headed the Potemkin mutiny, then was hanged in Sevastopol in 1907
Social movements and organizing
1879–1907
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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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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин
Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1882–1906
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1883–1921
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Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов
Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–1918
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Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко
The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order
Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1885–1960
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Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов
The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1889–1922
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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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Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль
The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1896–1917
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Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin Виктор Васильевич Гришин
The face of the Brezhnev era who ran Moscow for eighteen years and died while re-applying for his pension
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1914–1992
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Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Владимир Антонович Ивашко
The last deputy general secretary before dissolution
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1932–1994
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Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов
The Supreme Soviet chairman who stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks
Legislature and state representation · Russian Federation state institutions
1942–2023
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Владимир Владимирович Путин
A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1952–
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Bogusław Zborowski Saul Zborowski
The briefly recorded first chair of the Petersburg Soviet
Social movements and organizing
?–?
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Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin Степан Николаевич Халтурин
The carpenter-revolutionary who bombed the Winter Palace and founded Russia's first political workers' organization
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1856/1857–1882