People of the Revolution and the USSR
Social movements and organizing
Background: Russia
The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917
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- Catherine Konstantinovna Breshkovsky Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская 'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution' who endured 44 years of prison and exile; co-founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев Author of the Catechism of a Revolutionary, the nihilist who demanded total sacrifice for the revolutionary cause
- Vera Nikolayevna Figner Вера Николаевна Фигнер Last survivor of the Narodnaya Volya Executive Committee who spent 20 years in solitary confinement and wrote its definitive memoir
- Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich Николай Иванович Кибальчич Narodnaya Volya's chief explosives expert who designed the bombs that killed Alexander II and sketched a manned rocket from his death cell
- Sofia Lvovna Perovskaya Софья Львовна Перовская Narodnaya Volya leader who directed the tsar's assassination with a white handkerchief; first woman executed for a political crime in Russia
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Morozov Николай Александрович Морозов Narodnaya Volya theorist of terror who became a scientist during 25 years in prison
- Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov Александр Ильич Ульянов Lenin's elder brother: a gold-medal zoologist who turned from studying worms to building bombs for the assassination of Alexander III
- Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt Пётр Петрович Шмидт The revolutionary naval officer who raised the red flag over the Black Sea Fleet and demanded a constitution from the Tsar
- Viktor Konstantinovich Kurnatovsky Виктор Константинович Курнатовский One of Russia's first Marxists, from Narodnaya Volya to leader of the 1905 Chita Republic
- Iosif Solomonovich Bleikhman Иосиф Соломонович Блейхман An anarchist spark in the crisis of 1917
- Yevno Fishelevich Azef Евно Фишелевич Азеф The Okhrana's paid informant who led the revolution's terrorist vanguard
- Nikolai Yevgrafovich Fedoseev Николай Евграфович Федосеев Russian revolutionary who organized the first Marxist circles in the Volga region
- Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker
- Alexander Alekseevich Vannovsky Александр Алексеевич Ванновский A revolutionary who turned to Japanese literature and philosophy
- Ivan Platonovich Kalyaev Иван Платонович Каляев The poet-bomber who stayed his hand seeing the Grand Duchess and children: the 'ethical terrorist' behind Camus' Les Justes
- Georgy Stepanovich Khrustalev-Nosar Георгий Степанович Носарь A non-party workers' lawyer elected the first chairman of the Petersburg Soviet in 1905
- Semyon Aronovich Klivansky Семён Аронович Кливанский Menshevik Bundist intellectual who drafted the core of Order No. 1 among the soldiers
- Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs
- Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order
- Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin Степан Николаевич Халтурин The carpenter-revolutionary who bombed the Winter Palace and founded Russia's first political workers' organization