People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Emma Goldman Эмма Гольдман
Exiled revolutionary who made anarchism an international political movement
Literature and arts
1869–1940
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Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Питирим Александрович Сорокин
SR leader imprisoned by both Tsar and Bolsheviks, who became founder of Harvard's sociology department
Scholarship and theory · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1889–1968
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Raya Dunayevskaya Raya Dunayevskaya
From Trotsky's secretary to founder of Marxist Humanism
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1910–1987
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева
Stalin's only daughter and the Kremlin's first insider witness to defect to the West
Literature and arts
1926–2011
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Paul Avrich Paul Avrich
Historian who pioneered the history of Russian and American anarchism
Scholarship and theory
1931–2006
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Nina Tumarkin Nina Tumarkin
The preeminent chronicler of Soviet memory politics who traced the Lenin cult and the Great Patriotic War myth
Scholarship and theory
1945–
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Artemy Mikhailovich Kalinovsky Артемий Михайлович Калиновский
Cold War historian who analyzed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan as a 'long goodbye'
Scholarship and theory
1979?–