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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
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Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
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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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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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов
Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1880–1969
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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