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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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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 state institutions
1864–1940
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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 state institutions
1865–1937
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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 state institutions
1870–1956
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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 state institutions
1872–1933
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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 state institutions
1873–1938
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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 state institutions
1874–1933
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Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов
The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1877–1937
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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
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Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв
Tsarist officer turned Red commander who took Kyiv, battled in Bessarabia, and rebelled against Brest-Litovsk
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1880–1918
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Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский
The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1880–1948
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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов
Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1880–1969
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Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский
The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1881–1925
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Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев
Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1881–1936
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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
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин
The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1938
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко
He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1938
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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый
The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1883–1973
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Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин
Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1884–1927
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич
Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1884–1928
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Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов
Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1885–1918
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе
Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1885–1925
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко
Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1885–1938
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Alexander Yakovlevich Parkhomenko Александр Яковлевич Пархоменко
Civil War commander who helped defend Tsaritsyn and establish Soviet power in Ukraine
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1886–1921
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Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев
Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1887–1919
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Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев
A Red Army commander shaped by the air war
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1887–1934
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August Ivanovich Kork Август Иванович Корк
Imperial staff officer who rose to the top of the Red Army command
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1887–1937
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1888–1936
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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин
The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1938
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Pavel Yefimovich Dybenko Павел Ефимович Дыбенко
The first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, whose Baltic sailors tipped the scales in October 1917
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1938
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Yan Karlovich Berzin Jānis Ян Карлович Берзин Bērziņš
The Latvian Bolshevik who built Soviet military intelligence and was consumed by the purges
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1889–1938
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Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский
MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1890–1918
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Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир
The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1920
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Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов
Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1891–1940
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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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Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский
Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1925
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Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо
Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1920
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Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский
The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1965
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс
Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1919
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Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий
GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1938
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Yakov Ivanovich Tryapitsyn Яков Иванович Тряпицын
Far Eastern partisan commander who took Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 1920, then executed its prisoners and burned the town
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1920
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Vitaly Markovich Primakov Виталий Маркович Примаков
Commander of the Red Cossacks and the Soviet 'Red Lawrence' who led the covert 1929 intervention in Afghanistan
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1937
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Ivan Semyonovich Kutyakov Иван Семёнович Кутяков
Chapayev's successor and Civil War hero who outlived his usefulness to Stalin
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1938
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Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков
Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
?–1920
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Pyotr Tokmakov Пётр Токмаков
Peasant-born officer who commanded the United Partisan Army of Tambov and chaired the Union of Working Peasantry
Military command · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
?–1921