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16 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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 state institutions 1871–1923
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
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1934
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1875–1937
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1877–1926
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1879–1938
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1937
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам The poet preserved by memory Literature and arts 1891–1938
Vladislav Vikentyevich Kosior Владислав Викентьевич Косиор The Kosior brother who died in Vorkuta as an oppositionist while his brother ruled Ukraine for Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1938
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Dziga Arkadyevich Vertov Дзига Аркадьевич Вертов Founder of Kino-Eye: the documentary revolutionary who believed the camera captures truth more completely than the human eye Literature and arts 1896–1954