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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background(set)
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky Александр Петрович Карпинский
First elected Academy president who steered science through the Revolution
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1847–1936
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Иван Петрович Павлов
Nobel Prize-winning physiologist who discovered the conditioned reflex and wrote to Stalin he was 'ashamed to be called a Russian'
Science and technology
1849–1936
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Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Иван Владимирович Мичурин
Self-taught plant breeder whose name was hijacked by Lysenko
Scholarship and theory
1855–1935
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Константин Эдуардович Циолковский
From a deaf provincial teacher to the father of cosmonautics. The self-taught visionary whose rocket equation opened the space age
Scholarship and theory
1857–1935
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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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Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский
Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system
Literature and arts
1863–1938
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Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович
The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1863–1949
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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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Alexander Nikolaevich Kozlovsky Александр Николаевич Козловский
Tsarist artillery general at Kronstadt whom the Bolsheviks falsely named as ringleader of the 1921 rebellion
Military command · Russian Empire
1864–1940
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Andrei Yevgenyevich Snesarev Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев
Tsarist general turned Red Army theorist who clashed with Stalin at Tsaritsyn
Military command · Soviet Union
1865–1937
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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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Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький
The stormy petrel, caged
Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1868–1936
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Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева
Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon'
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1868–1953
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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская
She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband
Education · Soviet Union
1869–1939
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Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров
The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1869–1944
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин
The helmsman who changed course at every fork
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1870–1924
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Leonid Borisovich Krasin Леонид Борисович Красин
From revolutionary engineer to Soviet diplomatic architect, the only Bolshevik who could do business with Western capital
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1870–1926
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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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David Borisovich Riazanov Давид Борисович Рязанов
Founder of the Marx-Engels Institute and independent Marxist who never stopped disagreeing
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1870–1938
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Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков
First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1870–1939
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Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich Михаил Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич
The first Imperial general to join the Bolsheviks: military director who led the founding of the Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1870–1956
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Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev Павел Павлович Лебедев
From tsarist major general to first Chief of the Red Army Staff, operational architect of Civil War victory
Military command · Soviet Union
1872–1933
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин
The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1936
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Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов
The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1872–1950
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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай
The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1952
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Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский
Early architect of electrification and planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1872–1959
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Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов
First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1941
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Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич
He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1873–1955
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Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Елена Дмитриевна Стасова
The early Secretariat’s practical organizer
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1873–1966
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Semyon Ivanovich Balashov Семён Иванович Балашов
Bolshevik leader of Ivanovo-Voznesensk who built the first soviet alongside Frunze during the 1905 general strike
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1874–1925
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Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский
Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1874–1932
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Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев
Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line
Military command · Soviet Union
1874–1933
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров
The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1874–1939
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Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд
Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1874–1940
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Николай Александрович Семашко
Founder of Soviet public health who designed free universal healthcare (the 'Semashko model')
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1874–1949
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Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский
Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic
Education · Soviet Union
1875–1933
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Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov Иван Гаврилович Александров
A technical planner who linked electrification to regional development
Science and technology
1875–1936
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Vasily Nikolayevich Kayurov Василий Николаевич Каюров
Vyborg Bolshevik organizer who turned the Women's Day protest into the February Revolution
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1936
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Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский
The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union
1876–1937
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Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин
The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October'
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union
1876–1941
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Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе
Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1877–1937
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Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов
The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum
Military command · Soviet Union
1877–1937
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Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов
The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1877–1938
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Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин
First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square
Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1878–1924
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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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Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин
'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов
The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский
The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров
Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1878–1941
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Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий
The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe
Military command · Soviet Union
1879–1940