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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Affiliation
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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Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин
An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1882–1932
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Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский
Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock
Religion · Russian Orthodox Church
1882–1937
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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
1882–1937
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон
Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1882–1938
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Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий
From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1938
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Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов
Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1882–1938
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Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев
From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1882–1939
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов
Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising
Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1882–1940
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Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький
Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1882–1941
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Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц
From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1952
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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
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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
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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
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1883–1921
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Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе
Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1883–1927
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев
He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев
The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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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
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
1883–1938
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский
An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
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
1883–1938
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Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер
Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1883–1940
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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
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Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин
Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1883–1947
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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
1883–1973
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Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов
The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1884–1926
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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
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
1884–1928
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Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов
Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1936
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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
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Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин
First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1937
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин
The architect of a forbidden future
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1937
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Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский
The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1884–1938
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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
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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
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Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева
The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1941
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Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский
Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1884–1965
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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
1885–1918
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Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов
The organizer who linked party and state after October
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1919
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе
Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer
Military command · Soviet Union
1885–1925
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Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский
First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1885–1925
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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
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Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев
A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–?
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Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев
The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1937
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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
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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
1885–1938
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Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek
The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1885–1939
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Aron Lvovich Sheinman Арон Львович Шейнман
Architect of the chervonets who tamed NEP inflation, then broke with Stalin as the first high-ranking Soviet financial defector
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1885–1944
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Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин
Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built
Literature and arts
1885–1953
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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
1886–1921