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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин
Rurikid prince, founder of anarcho-communism, geographer of Mutual Aid: escaped the Peter and Paul Fortress
Scholarship and theory
1842–1921
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Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky Александр Петрович Карпинский
First elected Academy president who steered science through the Revolution
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1847–1936
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Vera Ivanovna Zasulich Вера Ивановна Засулич
From a narodnik revolver to Marxist criticism, half a century of one woman's revolutionary life
Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1849–1919
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Иван Петрович Павлов
Nobel Prize-winning physiologist who discovered the conditioned reflex and wrote to Stalin he was 'ashamed to be called a Russian'
Science and technology
1849–1936
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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
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1852–1942
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Morozov Николай Александрович Морозов
Narodnaya Volya theorist of terror who became a scientist during 25 years in prison
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1854–1946
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Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Иван Владимирович Мичурин
Self-taught plant breeder whose name was hijacked by Lysenko
Scholarship and theory
1855–1935
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Lev Grigorievich Deitch Лев Григорьевич Дейч
Co-founder of the Emancipation of Labour group and a Menshevik pioneer at the origins of Russian Marxism
Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1855–1941
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev Владимир Михайлович Бехтерев
The brain pioneer who diagnosed Stalin
Science and technology
1857–1927
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Константин Эдуардович Циолковский
From a deaf provincial teacher to the father of cosmonautics. The self-taught visionary whose rocket equation opened the space age
Scholarship and theory
1857–1935
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Pavel Milyukov Павел Милюков
Leader of the Kadets: 'Stupidity or Treason?'
Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
1859–1943
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Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский
Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1863–1933
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Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский
Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system
Literature and arts
1863–1938
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Alexei Nikolayevich Krylov Алексей Николаевич Крылов
Father of Soviet shipbuilding science who translated Newton's Principia into Russian
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1863–1945
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Владимир Иванович Вернадский
Founder of biogeochemistry who reconceived the Earth through the biosphere and noosphere
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1863–1945
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Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович
The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1863–1949
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Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова
Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1864–1935
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Alexander Nikolaevich Kozlovsky Александр Николаевич Козловский
Tsarist artillery general at Kronstadt whom the Bolsheviks falsely named as ringleader of the 1921 rebellion
Military command · Russian Empire
1864–1940
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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
1864–1941
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Pēteris Ivanovich Stučka Пётр Иванович Стучка
Architect of Soviet Marxist legal theory who defined law as class relations
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1865–1932
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr Николай Яковлевич Марр
Creator of the Japhetic theory who, as the sole Imperial academician to join the Communist Party, dominated Soviet linguistics for decades
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1865–1934
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Andrei Yevgenyevich Snesarev Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев
Tsarist general turned Red Army theorist who clashed with Stalin at Tsaritsyn
Military command · Soviet Union
1865–1937
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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
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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
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский
Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1868–1932
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Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький
The stormy petrel, caged
Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1868–1936
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Alexander Grigorievich Shlikhter Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер
Bolshevik agrarian policymaker: first Agriculture Commissar, later VP of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1868–1940
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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
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Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский
Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1868–1944
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Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева
Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon'
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1868–1953
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Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon Михаил Осипович Гершензон
Russian cultural historian who launched the Vekhi collection and urged the intelligentsia toward spiritual self-awareness
Scholarship and theory
1869–1925
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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
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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская
She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband
Education · Soviet Union
1869–1939
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Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров
The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1869–1944
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Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov Владимир Леонтьевич Комаров
The botanist who led the Soviet Academy of Sciences through the Stalin years
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1869–1945
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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
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Nariman Najaf oglu Narimanov Нариман Наджаф оглы Нариманов
From Azerbaijani Enlightener to a Head of the Soviet State
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1870–1925
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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
1870–1926
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Alexander Dmitrievich Tsyurupa Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа
The Civil War food administrator who designed the grain dictatorship
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1870–1928
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Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов
Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1870–1928
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Sokolov Николай Дмитриевич Соколов
Secretary of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee and the lawyer who drafted Order No. 1
Law and justice
1870–1928
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David Borisovich Riazanov Давид Борисович Рязанов
Founder of the Marx-Engels Institute and independent Marxist who never stopped disagreeing
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1870–1938
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Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков
First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1870–1939
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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
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Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich Михаил Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич
The first Imperial general to join the Bolsheviks: military director who led the founding of the Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1870–1956
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Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский
The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1871–1923
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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
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Fyodor Aronovich Rothstein Фёдор Аронович Ротштейн
Bolshevik historian who became Soviet Russia's first ambassador to Persia after thirty years of exile in Britain
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1871–1953
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Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник
Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1872–1933
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Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev Павел Павлович Лебедев
From tsarist major general to first Chief of the Red Army Staff, operational architect of Civil War victory
Military command · Soviet Union
1872–1933