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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 193 Government and administration 42 Legislature and state representation 16 Military command 233 Security, intelligence and policing 169 Diplomacy and international organization 66 Economy, finance and planning 112 Industry and production 100 Agriculture and land policy 24 Ideology and propaganda 67 Social movements and organizing 205 Scholarship and theory 70 Education 9 Science and technology 133 Literature and arts 85 Religion 1 Law and justice 32

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 161 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 34 Soviet Union state institutions 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 5 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 3

All 27 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 3

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 1

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 21 Socialist-bloc reform leader 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 5 Marxism and communism 160 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Nationalism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 193 China 40 Germany 39 France 38 Russia 38 Hungary 32 Poland 24 East Germany 15 Czechoslovakia 13 United Kingdom 12 Italy 11 United States 11 Romania 10 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 9 Spain 8 Bulgaria 7 Cambodia 7 Estonia 7 Mongolia 6 Yugoslavia 6 Angola 5 Vietnam 5 Yemen 5 Afghanistan 4 Azerbaijan 4 Cuba 4 Finland 4 Georgia 4 Turkey 4 Albania 3 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Czechia 3 Japan 3 Laos 3 Latvia 3 Lithuania 3 Austria 2 Belarus 2 Ethiopia 2 Greece 2 India 2 Indonesia 2 Korea 2 Madagascar 2 Moldova 2 Mozambique 2 Portugal 2 South Africa 2 Ukraine 2 Argentina 1 Belgium 1 Brazil 1 Chile 1 DR Congo 1 Egypt 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Iran 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Netherlands 1 Peru 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 106 Ukraine 11 Latvia 10 Armenia 8 Georgia 8 Belarus 7 Azerbaijan 5 Estonia 5 Poland 5 Lithuania 4 Finland 3 Kazakhstan 3 Kyrgyzstan 3 Tajikistan 3 Uzbekistan 3 Moldova 2 Turkmenistan 2 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Korea 1 Turkey 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 54 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 33 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 45 The last generation1985–1991 46

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 10 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Political and party leadership Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

193 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pavel Milyukov Павел Милюков Leader of the Kadets: 'Stupidity or Treason?' Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1859–1943
Feliks Yakovlevich Kon Феликс Яковлевич Кон From Warsaw boy patriot to Comintern old revolutionary: the Pole who returned in the sealed train Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1864–1941
Julian Józefowicz Marchlewski Julian Marchlewski A Pole who passed through the German and Russian revolutions and tried to bring revolution home Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1866–1925
Alikhan Bukeikhanov Әлихан Бөкейхан Kazakh politician who founded the Alash party and led the Alash Orda government in 1917–1920 Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1866–1937
Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ფილიპე იესეს ძე მახარაძე The Bolshevik elder removed by Stalin for trying to Sovietize Georgia gently Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1941
Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1869–1934
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1869–1939
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
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 state institutions 1870–1926
Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1870–1944
Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1871–1947
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 state institutions 1872–1952
Julius Osipovich Martov Юлий Осипович Мартов Lenin’s oldest friend and most principled adversary Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1873–1923
Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов The man who made Lenin furious over philosophy, then died swapping his own blood: a forerunner of cybernetics Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1928
Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1873–1941
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand Инесса Фёдоровна Арманд The woman Bolshevik closest to Lenin: death saved her from the Purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1920
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1875–1946
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 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
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
Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1943
Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1945
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
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Boris Savinkov Борис Савинков Terrorist, Counter-Revolutionary: the Black Horse of the Revolution Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1879–1925
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1879–1938
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1940
Vincas Kapsukas Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas Founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party who headed Soviet Lithuania and Litbel Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1880–1935
Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1880–1937
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
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 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
Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions 1882–1940
Prosh Perchevich Proshian Прош Перчевич Прошьян Left SR People's Commissar in the first Soviet coalition: 'the core of the party' Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1883–1918
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1919
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt Head of the Estonian Workers' Commune and leader of the 1924 rising Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1884–1941
Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1885–1936
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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