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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

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 46 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 23 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Soviet Unionstate 5 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 4 Soviet Ukrainestate 2 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 Left Communists 1

All 15 affiliations

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 2

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 21 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 36 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 54 Russia 6

Background

Any Russia 37 Ukraine 4 Georgia 3 Latvia 3 Poland 3 Armenia 2 Kazakhstan 2 Belarus 1 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Moldova 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 27 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 60 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 33 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 46 The last generation1985–1991 67

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 3 The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 16 People of the Mao era1949–1976 13 The reform generation1976–현재 8

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 17

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 16 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 148 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 174

Political and party leadership The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

60 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1921
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1876–1941
Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1876–1947
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1878–1924
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1958
Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky Яков Станиславович Ганецкий The Polish revolutionary who ran Lenin's financial pipeline from Kraków to Stockholm Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1938
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union 1879–1940
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Prosh Perchevich Proshian Прош Перчевич Прошьян Left SR People's Commissar in the first Soviet coalition: 'the core of the party' Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1883–1918
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1919
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
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 1883–1936
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union 1884–1928
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union 1884–1938
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1884–1941
Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Boris Davidovich Kamkov Борис Давидович Камков Co-founder and chief theoretician of the Left SR Party: from coalition with the Bolsheviks to the July 1918 uprising Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1885–1938
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1886–1925
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1961
Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed Government and administration · Soviet Union 1888–1928
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1939
Isaac Zakharyevich Steinberg Исаак Захарович Штейнберг First People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin: the Left SR who defended revolutionary legality against the Cheka Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1888–1957
Akaki Vissarionovich Kabakhidze Акакий Виссарионович Кабахидзе An Old Bolshevik of the Georgian Affair Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1937
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine 1890–1937
Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46 Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine 1890–1937
Mustafa Shokay Мустафа Шокай Kazakh nationalist who led the Kokand Autonomy and dreamed of an independent Turkestan Political and party leadership 1890–1941
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1890–1946

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