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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 54 Government and administration 16 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 41 Security, intelligence and policing 23 Diplomacy and international organization 18 Economy, finance and planning 28 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 5 Ideology and propaganda 14 Social movements and organizing 86 Scholarship and theory 16 Education 4 Science and technology 7 Literature and arts 37 Religion 1 Law and justice 10

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 202 Soviet Unionstate 161 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 103 Left Opposition 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 13 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 11 Comintern 8 Soviet Ukrainestate 5

All 25 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 2 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 5

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 38 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 Marxism and communism 203 Nationalism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 268 Russia 12

Background

Any Russia 179 Ukraine 19 Poland 16 Latvia 12 Belarus 9 Georgia 8 Lithuania 4 Moldova 4 Armenia 3 Germany 3 Estonia 2 Kazakhstan 2 Uzbekistan 2 Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 1 France 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 15 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 268 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 453 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 390 The last generation1985–1991 173

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 4 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 15 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 6

Citizenship: Soviet Union The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

268 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
Vladimir Gustavovich Groman Владимир Густавович Громан The Menshevik statistician who designed Gosplan's early control figures and balance method, leading voice of genetic planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1874–1940
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
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
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov Иван Гаврилович Александров A technical planner who linked electrification to regional development Science and technology 1875–1936
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1875–1937
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
Boris Mikhailovich Eltsin Борис Михайлович Эльцин A physician of the Left Opposition who shares a name with the first president of Russia Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1937
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
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1876–1941
Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1876–1947
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1877–1926
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
Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum Military command · Soviet Union 1877–1937
Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization Government and administration · Georgia state institutions 1877–1937
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
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
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
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
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
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1938
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
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1958
Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine 1879–1925
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky Яков Станиславович Ганецкий The Polish revolutionary who ran Lenin's financial pipeline from Kraków to Stockholm Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1938
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union 1879–1940
Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв Tsarist officer turned Red commander who took Kyiv, battled in Bessarabia, and rebelled against Brest-Litovsk Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1918
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1880–1936
Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov Александр Михайлович Краснощёков The pragmatic Bolshevik who designed and led the Far Eastern Republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1880–1937
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1948
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1969
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander Military command · Soviet Union 1881–1925
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union 1881–1936
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition Government and administration · Soviet Union 1881–1938
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1948
Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotieva Лидия Александровна Фотиева Lenin's personal secretary and conduit of his final political struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1975
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1882–1920
Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1922
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1882–1932
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1882–1937
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1882–1937
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union 1882–1938

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