CommuLingo
People

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

Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations Military command · Soviet Union 1891–1920
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1937
Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1938
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам The poet preserved by memory Literature and arts 1891–1938
Vladislav Vikentyevich Kosior Владислав Викентьевич Косиор The Kosior brother who died in Vorkuta as an oppositionist while his brother ruled Ukraine for Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1938
Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara Government and administration · Soviet Union 1891–1940
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The unpublished writer of the devil Literature and arts 1891–1940
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1891–1973
Asja Ernestovna Lācis Asja Lācis Proletarian children's theatre pioneer who led Walter Benjamin to Marxism and Brecht Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1979
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924
Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism Military command · Soviet Union 1892–1925
Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov Александр Григорьевич Червяков Architect of Byelorussian Soviet statehood who turned the gun on himself Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1892–1937
Ivar Tenisovich Smilga Ivars Smilga The young oppositionist of the Revolutionary Military Council Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1892–1937
Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1892–1938
Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary Government and administration · Soviet Union 1892–1938
Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1892–1939
Mirsaid Khaydargalievich Sultan-Galiev Мирсаид Хайдаргалиевич Султан-Галиев The architect of Islamic socialism and national communism who became Stalin's first ideological purge victim Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1892–1940
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Марина Ивановна Цветаева A Silver Age poet writing between exile and return Literature and arts 1892–1941
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp Political and party leadership · Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1892–1947
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский The revolution’s megaphone and satirist Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1893–1930
Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1933
Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба Stalin's closest friend turned Beria's first victim: the red prince of Abkhazia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1893–1936
Vladimir Ivanovich Polonsky Владимир Иванович Полонский Bolshevik Orgotdel chief and trade-union officer purged in 1937 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Klavdiya Ivanovna Nikolaeva Клавдия Ивановна Николаева The printworker who rose to the Central Committee: a proletarian woman revolutionary Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1944
Genrikh Khristoforovich Eiche Генрих Христофорович Эйхе Red commander who drove Kolchak's retreat to its collapse Scholarship and theory 1893–1968
Boris Mikhailovich Donskoy Борис Михайлович Донской Left SR sailor who killed the German field marshal Eichhorn with a bomb in Kiev in 1918 and was hanged Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1894–1918
Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1920
Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak Борис Андреевич Пильняк The writer of revolutionary chaos Literature and arts 1894–1938
Eduard Petrovich Berzin Эдуард Петрович Берзин The Latvian Chekist who built Dalstroy and colonised Kolyma with forced labour for gold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Turar Ryskulovich Ryskulov Турар Рыскулович Рыскулов The Kazakh Bolshevik strategist who argued for a unified Turkestan against Stalin's national delimitation Government and administration · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel Исаак Эммануилович Бабель The short-story master who saw too much and wrote too little Literature and arts 1894–1940
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1956
Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable' Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1965
Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev' Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1919
Sergei Yesenin Сергей Есенин A poet of peasant memory and revolutionary dissonance Literature and arts 1895–1925
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky Григорий Наумович Каминский First USSR People's Commissar for Health, a founder of Soviet preventive medicine Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky Лев Семёнович Выготский Founder of cultural-historical psychology, Marxist psychologist who developed the zone of proximal development Scholarship and theory 1896–1934
Faizulla Gubaidullayevich Khodzhayev Файзулла Губайдуллаевич Ходжаев Son of a Bukharan merchant who rose from the Jadid reform movement to become the first head of government of Soviet Uzbekistan Government and administration · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Boris Ignatyevich Arvatov Борис Игнатьевич Арватов The Saint-Just of the avant-garde, theorist of production art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1940
Dziga Arkadyevich Vertov Дзига Аркадьевич Вертов Founder of Kino-Eye: the documentary revolutionary who believed the camera captures truth more completely than the human eye Literature and arts 1896–1954
Yakov Ivanovich Tryapitsyn Яков Иванович Тряпицын Far Eastern partisan commander who took Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 1920, then executed its prisoners and burned the town Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1920
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf Илья Арнольдович Ильф Co-author of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured the contradictions of NEP-era Soviet society Literature and arts 1897–1937
Vitaly Markovich Primakov Виталий Маркович Примаков Commander of the Red Cossacks and the Soviet 'Red Lawrence' who led the covert 1929 intervention in Afghanistan Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Ivan Semyonovich Kutyakov Иван Семёнович Кутяков Chapayev's successor and Civil War hero who outlived his usefulness to Stalin Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1938
Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin Пётр Иванович Смородин The worker-Bolshevik who built the Komsomol's mass base and made 'study' its watchword Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1939

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next