People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Vera Ivanovna Zasulich Вера Ивановна Засулич From a narodnik revolver to Marxist criticism, half a century of one woman's revolutionary life
- Vera Nikolayevna Figner Вера Николаевна Фигнер Last survivor of the Narodnaya Volya Executive Committee who spent 20 years in solitary confinement and wrote its definitive memoir
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Morozov Николай Александрович Морозов Narodnaya Volya theorist of terror who became a scientist during 25 years in prison
- Lev Grigorievich Deitch Лев Григорьевич Дейч Co-founder of the Emancipation of Labour group and a Menshevik pioneer at the origins of Russian Marxism
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev Владимир Михайлович Бехтерев The brain pioneer who diagnosed Stalin
- Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Владимир Иванович Вернадский Founder of biogeochemistry who reconceived the Earth through the biosphere and noosphere
- Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon Михаил Осипович Гершензон Russian cultural historian who launched the Vekhi collection and urged the intelligentsia toward spiritual self-awareness
- Nikolai Dmitrievich Sokolov Николай Дмитриевич Соколов Secretary of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee and the lawyer who drafted Order No. 1
- Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Николай Александрович Бердяев A Russian thinker who left Marxism to found a Christian existentialist philosophy of freedom
- Pyotr Ioakimovich Palchinsky Пётр Иоакимович Пальчинский The Provisional Government's last technocrat who directed the defense of the Winter Palace
- Boris Aleksandrovich Engelhardt Борис Александрович Энгельгардт Headed the Duma Military Commission whose order sending the garrison back to barracks triggered Order No. 1
- Semyon Aronovich Klivansky Семён Аронович Кливанский Menshevik Bundist intellectual who drafted the core of Order No. 1 among the soldiers
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov Николай Васильевич Устрялов Founder of National Bolshevism, the exile who saw the Bolsheviks turning into Russian state-builders
- Anatoly Nikolayevich Pepelyayev Анатолий Николаевич Пепеляев The 27-year-old White general whose Yakut expedition closed the Civil War