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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 23 Government and administration 14 Monarchs and royalty 3 Military command 31 Security, intelligence and policing 6 Economy, finance and planning 1 Industry and production 2 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 2 Social movements and organizing 21 Scholarship and theory 22 Science and technology 3 Literature and arts 9 Religion 3 Law and justice 8

Affiliation

Most people

Any Russian Empirestate 43 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 16 Russian White movement 15 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 8 Narodnaya Volya 7 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 4 Russian Provisional Governmentstate 4

All 16 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 43 Russian White movement 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 8 Narodnaya Volya 7 Russian Provisional Governmentstate 4 Russian Orthodox Church 3 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 4 Soviet Unionstate 2

Ukraine

Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 60 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Anarchists 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 20 Narodniks 16 Russian revolutionary democrats 6 Marxism and communism 6 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Russia 114 Soviet Union 15 United States 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 130 Ukraine 6 Georgia 3 Germany 3 Armenia 2 Poland 2 Kazakhstan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 130 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 188 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 328 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 306 The last generation1985–1991 131

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 9 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2 Scholars of this history1892–현재 34

Background: Russia The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917 Clear all

130 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov Георгий Евгеньевич Львов A scion of Rurik, the Empire's last liberal premier Government and administration · Russian Empire 1861–1925
Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich Николай Николаевич Юденич The last great commander of Imperial Russia, who won the Caucasus Front and led the White drive on Petrograd Military command · Russian Empire 1862–1933
Sergey Yefimovich Kryzhanovsky Сергей Ефимович Крыжановский The Empire's legal architect who tamed the Duma with the "shameless" electoral law of 1907 Law and justice · Russian Empire 1862–1935
Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov Александр Иванович Гучков Octobrist leader who received the Tsar's abdication: Boer War volunteer turned Provisional Government minister Political and party leadership · Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1862–1936
Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev Владимир Львович Бурцев 'Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution' who serially exposed Tsarist secret police agents provocateurs Scholarship and theory 1862–1942
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Владимир Иванович Вернадский Founder of biogeochemistry who reconceived the Earth through the biosphere and noosphere Science and technology · Soviet Union 1863–1945
Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov Сергей Васильевич Зубатов The police administrator who tried to tame the labor movement from inside the Tsarist system Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1864–1917
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Kishkin Николай Михайлович Кишкин The Kadet minister named special plenipotentiary to save Petrograd on the day of the October Revolution Government and administration · Russian Empire 1864–1930
Tikhon Patriarch Тихон The patriarch who led the Russian Church through revolution Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1865–1925
Vladimir Fyodorovich Dzhunkovsky Владимир Фёдорович Джунковский The last gendarme chief who reformed the Okhrana and warned the Tsar about Rasputin Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1865–1938
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 Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1866–1887
Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov Александр Дмитриевич Протопопов The last interior minister of the Russian Empire: elevated by Rasputin, destroyed by his own unraveling Government and administration · Russian Empire 1866–1918
Alexander Pavlovich Balk Александр Павлович Балк Last Petrograd city governor of imperial Russia, the police official who faced the February Revolution's tide Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1866–1957
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 Social movements and organizing 1867–1906
Vladimir Zenonovich May-Mayevsky Владимир Зенонович Май-Маевский The White general who led the Volunteer Army closest to Moscow, only to collapse from overstretched lines and alcoholism Military command · Russian Empire 1867–1920
Yevgeny Karlovich Miller Евгений Карлович Миллер Baltic German tsarist general who commanded the White Northern Army and was kidnapped by the NKVD in Paris Military command · Russian White movement 1867–1939
Viktor Konstantinovich Kurnatovsky Виктор Константинович Курнатовский One of Russia's first Marxists, from Narodnaya Volya to leader of the 1905 Chita Republic Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1912
Nicholas II Николай II The last Tsar, who believed autocracy was a duty from God Monarchs and royalty · Russian Empire 1868–1918
Iosif Solomonovich Bleikhman Иосиф Соломонович Блейхман An anarchist spark in the crisis of 1917 Social movements and organizing 1868–1921
Alexander Alexandrovich Rittich Александр Александрович Риттих The last tsarist agriculture minister, whose grain requisition ignited the bread crisis that sparked the February Revolution Agriculture and land policy · Russian Empire 1868–1930
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin Григорий Ефимович Распутин The Siberian “holy man” who reached the imperial bedchamber Political and party leadership · Russian Empire 1869–1916
Yevno Fishelevich Azef Евно Фишелевич Азеф The Okhrana's paid informant who led the revolution's terrorist vanguard Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1869–1918
Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon Михаил Осипович Гершензон Russian cultural historian who launched the Vekhi collection and urged the intelligentsia toward spiritual self-awareness Scholarship and theory 1869–1925
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov Пётр Николаевич Краснов The White ataman who built a Don Cossack anti-Bolshevik state, collaborated with the Nazis, and was a Nobel Prize-nominated novelist Military command · Russian Empire 1869–1947
Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova Екатерина Дмитриевна Кускова A publicist who moved between reformist socialism and anti-party politics Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1869–1958
Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni Григорий Андреевич Гершуни The 'Tiger of the Revolution' who founded the SR Combat Organization Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1870–1908
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich Владимир Митрофанович Пуришкевич The far-right monarchist who hurled water glasses in the Duma and shot Rasputin Political and party leadership 1870–1920
Nikolai Dmitrievich Sokolov Николай Дмитриевич Соколов Secretary of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee and the lawyer who drafted Order No. 1 Law and justice 1870–1928
Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1870–1944
Nikolai Yevgrafovich Fedoseev Николай Евграфович Федосеев Russian revolutionary who organized the first Marxist circles in the Volga region Social movements and organizing 1871–1898
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Krymov Александр Михайлович Крымов Imperial Russian cavalry general who led Kornilov's march on Petrograd Military command · Russian Empire 1871–1917
Pavel Nikolaevich Pereverzev Павел Николаевич Переверзев A lawyer who crossed the boundary between law and politics in revolution Law and justice · Russian Provisional Government 1871–1944
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov Сергей Николаевич Булгаков The Marxist economist who became a priest and built the theological system of Sophia Scholarship and theory 1871–1944
Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich Сергей Николаевич Прокопович An economist who analysed the tension between markets and state control Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1871–1955
Mikhail Vasilyevich Hanzhin Михаил Васильевич Ханжин The artillery general who led Kolchak's drive to the Volga and was broken by Frunze's counterstroke Military command · Russian White movement 1871–1961
Anton Ivanovich Denikin Антон Иванович Деникин The White commander who drove the largest anti-Bolshevik army to within 400 km of Moscow Military command · Russian Empire 1872–1947
Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin Иван Васильевич Бабушкин The worker-organizer Iskra trusted most: archetype of the Bolshevik worker Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1906
Benjamin Pavlovich Kazansky Василий Павлович Казанский A metropolitan who defended church control of famine relief while protecting sacred objects Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1873–1922
Semyon Leontyevich Maslov Семён Леонтьевич Маслов A Socialist-Revolutionary agrarian thinker who championed peasant cooperation Agriculture and land policy · Russian Provisional Government 1873–1938
Victor Mikhailovich Chernov Виктор Михайлович Чернов Founder and chief theoretician of the Socialist Revolutionary Party Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1873–1952
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak Александр Васильевич Колчак From the Arctic to the execution wall: Imperial Russia's last armed defender turned Supreme Ruler Military command · Russian Empire 1874–1920
Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs Михаил Константинович Дитерихс Kolchak's chief of staff, Romanov murder investigator, and last ruler of White Priamurye Military command · Russian Empire 1874–1937
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Николай Александрович Бердяев A Russian thinker who left Marxism to found a Christian existentialist philosophy of freedom Scholarship and theory 1874–1948
Alexander Alekseevich Vannovsky Александр Алексеевич Ванновский A revolutionary who turned to Japanese literature and philosophy Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1874–1967
Pyotr Ioakimovich Palchinsky Пётр Иоакимович Пальчинский The Provisional Government's last technocrat who directed the defense of the Winter Palace Science and technology 1875–1929
Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov Александр Иванович Коновалов The capitalist who gave his workers a nine-hour day and built the Progressive Bloc to challenge the autocracy Industry and production · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1875–1949
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 Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1877–1905
Georgy Stepanovich Khrustalev-Nosar Георгий Степанович Носарь A non-party workers' lawyer elected the first chairman of the Petersburg Soviet in 1905 Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1877–1919
Boris Aleksandrovich Engelhardt Борис Александрович Энгельгардт Headed the Duma Military Commission whose order sending the garrison back to barracks triggered Order No. 1 Military command · Russian Empire 1877–1962
Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov Михаил Александрович Романов The last Romanov who could have been tsar, and who deferred the crown to a Constituent Assembly Military command · Russian Empire 1878–1918

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