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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников
Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1937
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Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев
The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1937
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Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek
The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1885–1939
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Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков
From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1949
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Sergei Mironovich Kirov Сергей Миронович Киров
The Leningrad organizer whose murder became the pretext for the Great Terror
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1934
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов
The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский
The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий
Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1924
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Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков
A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1936
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Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов
Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1937
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов
From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч
Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev Павел Петрович Постышев
Stalin's famine envoy and terror executor called the 'hangman of Ukraine', executed in 1939
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1939
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Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев
A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1949
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Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская
Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1960
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Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман
Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1961
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Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов
Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1888–1928
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union
1888–1936
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Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович
Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Elbegdorj Rinchinovich Rinchino Элбек-Доржи Ринчинович Ринчино
Buryat revolutionary, drafter of Mongolia's 1924 constitution, victim of the Great Terror
Political and party leadership · Mongolia
1888–1938
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Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников
The finance commissar of NEP stabilization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1939
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник
Formal head of state in late Stalinism
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1888–1970
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Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха
Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1889–1935
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Stanislav Vikentyevich Kosior Станислав Викентьевич Косиор
The Ukrainian party boss who denied the famine, felled by Stalin's bullet
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1889–1939
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Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников
Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1889–1945
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Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина
The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1889–1969
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Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан
The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution'
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1890–1918
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Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков
The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine
1890–1937
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Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin Мартемьян Никитич Рютин
Right Oppositionist who authored the 'Ryutin Platform': the last organized intra-party call to remove Stalin
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1937
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Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис
Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine
1890–1937
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Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев
The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books
Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1890–1938
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Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко
A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1952
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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
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Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис
The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within
Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1891–1937
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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
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Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrebyshev Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев
Stalin's shadow: secretary who filtered all information, drafted the 1936 Constitution & Short Course, ran the Special Sector for 25 years
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1891–1965
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Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева
Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union
1891–1973
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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
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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
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Ivar Tenisovich Smilga Ivars Smilga
The young oppositionist of the Revolutionary Military Council
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1892–1937
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Karl Yanovich Bauman Карл Янович Бауман
A party organiser who drove collectivisation forward
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1892–1937
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев
The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1892–1938
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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
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Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский
Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1892–1956
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Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий
Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1893–1933
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Mendel Markovich Khataevich Мендель Маркович Хатаевич
The party secretary who warned Molotov that grain seizures would leave nobody to plant, shot four years later
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1893–1937
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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
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Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов
The Cheka’s architect of political investigations
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1893–1938
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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
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Jānis Eduardovich Kalnbērziņš Ян Эдуардович Калнберзинь
Founding leader of Soviet Latvia and the longest-serving republican First Secretary among the Baltic republics
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1893–1986