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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 60 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 44 Security, intelligence and policing 24 Diplomacy and international organization 18 Economy, finance and planning 29 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 5 Ideology and propaganda 16 Social movements and organizing 91 Scholarship and theory 16 Education 4 Science and technology 7 Literature and arts 38 Religion 1 Law and justice 10

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 208 Soviet Unionstate 167 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 106 Left Opposition 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 13 Comintern 8 Soviet Ukrainestate 6

All 26 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 2 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 6

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 39 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 5 Marxism and communism 210 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 268 Russia 12

Background

Any Russia 188 Ukraine 19 Poland 16 Latvia 12 Belarus 9 Georgia 8 Armenia 4 Lithuania 4 Moldova 4 Germany 3 Kazakhstan 3 Estonia 2 Uzbekistan 2 Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 1 France 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 147 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 280 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 459 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 397 The last generation1985–1991 220

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 9 The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 20 People of the Mao era1949–1976 25 The reform generation1976–현재 12

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 53

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 57 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 461 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 385 Scholars of this history1892–현재 155

The revolutionary generation 1917–1940

280 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky Александр Петрович Карпинский First elected Academy president who steered science through the Revolution Science and technology · Soviet Union 1847–1936
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
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Иван Владимирович Мичурин Self-taught plant breeder whose name was hijacked by Lysenko Scholarship and theory 1855–1935
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
Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1863–1933
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system Literature and arts 1863–1938
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
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
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
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
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
Andrei Yevgenyevich Snesarev Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев Tsarist general turned Red Army theorist who clashed with Stalin at Tsaritsyn Military command · Soviet Union 1865–1937
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
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1932
Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький The stormy petrel, caged Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1936
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alexander Dmitrievich Tsyurupa Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа The Civil War food administrator who designed the grain dictatorship Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1870–1928
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
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
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1870–1939
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
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
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
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
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
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1872–1936
Aron Aleksandrovich Solts Арон Александрович Сольц The Bolshevik elder called 'conscience of the party': jurist who confronted the Prosecutor General during the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1872–1945
Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1950
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 1872–1952
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1959
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1873–1918
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
Jukums Ioakimovich Vācietis Jukums Иоакимович Vācietis The Red Army's first commander-in-chief: an Imperial colonel who built the revolutionary armed forces Military command · Soviet Union 1873–1938
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 1873–1941
Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1941
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire Government and administration · Soviet Union 1873–1955
Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Елена Дмитриевна Стасова The early Secretariat’s practical organizer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1966
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand Инесса Фёдоровна Арманд The woman Bolshevik closest to Lenin: death saved her from the Purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1874–1920
Semyon Ivanovich Balashov Семён Иванович Балашов Bolshevik leader of Ivanovo-Voznesensk who built the first soviet alongside Frunze during the 1905 general strike Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1925
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union 1874–1932
Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line Military command · Soviet Union 1874–1933
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1874–1934

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