People of the Revolution and the USSR
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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
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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
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Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский
From Legal Marxism to ethical socialism: the economist who pioneered business cycle theory
Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
1865–1919
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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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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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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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Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Владимир Антонович Ивашко
The last deputy general secretary before dissolution
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1932–1994