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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 36 Government and administration 15 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 34 Security, intelligence and policing 22 Diplomacy and international organization 17 Economy, finance and planning 26 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 4 Ideology and propaganda 16 Social movements and organizing 62 Scholarship and theory 8 Education 4 Science and technology 4 Literature and arts 22 Law and justice 9

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 176 Soviet Union state institutions 148 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 87 Comintern 7 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 3 Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 2

All 14 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

International organizations

Comintern 7

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 2 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 3

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 2 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 87

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 176 Soviet Union state institutions 148

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 2 ↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 39 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 5 Marxism and communism 210 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 203 Russia 7

Background

Any Russia 139 Ukraine 16 Poland 11 Belarus 8 Latvia 8 Georgia 7 Armenia 3 Lithuania 3 Moldova 3 Estonia 2 Germany 2 Uzbekistan 2 Azerbaijan 1 France 1 Kazakhstan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 9 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 210 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 430 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 370 The last generation1985–1991 165

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 19 People of the Mao era1949–1976 25 The reform generation1976–현재 10

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 7 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 94 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 179 Scholars of this history1892–현재 6

Marxism and communism The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

210 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
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
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
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
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
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 state institutions 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1941
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 state institutions 1884–1965
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
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
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1925
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 state institutions 1885–1925
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
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 state institutions 1885–1944
Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–?
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
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1925
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1938
Vasily Vladimirovich Schmidt Василий Владимирович Шмидт The labour commissar who steered the statification of Soviet trade unions Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1938
Yakov Khristoforovich Peters Яков Христофорович Петерс Founding deputy chairman of the Cheka, Honorary Chekist No. 2 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1938
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
Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев A Red Army commander shaped by the air war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1934
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
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1949
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
Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1927
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 state institutions 1888–1928
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Semyon Semyonovich Lobov Семён Семёнович Лобов Bolshevik industrial administrator who rose from the Cheka to chair VSNKh RSFSR Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Martin Ivanovich Lācis Mārtiņš Lācis Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and theorist of class-based Red Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1938
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1938
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko Антон Семёнович Макаренко Educator who raised street children through labour and self-rule: one of UNESCO's four great 20th-c. pedagogues Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1935
Akaki Vissarionovich Kabakhidze Акакий Виссарионович Кабахидзе An Old Bolshevik of the Georgian Affair Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1937
Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1937
Arkady Pavlovich Rozengolts Аркадий Павлович Розенгольц Bolshevik who built the Soviet Air Force and ran foreign trade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
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
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
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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