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The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917

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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 state institutions 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 state institutions 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
Roman Vatslavovich Malinovsky Роман Вацлавович Малиновский Bolshevik Central Committee member and Duma leader who was the Okhrana's best-paid spy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1918
Grigory Nikitich Vakulinchuk Григорий Никитич Вакуленчук The Tsentralka sailor whose killing ignited the Potemkin mutiny; his Odessa funeral became a mass revolutionary demonstration Social movements and organizing 1877–1905
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 state institutions 1877–1962
Bogdan Mirzadzhanovich Knunyants Богдан Мирзаджанович Кнунянц Iskra majority delegate at the 2nd Congress, a pioneer Caucasus Bolshevik who died in prison at 32 Social movements and organizing 1878–1911
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 state institutions 1878–1918
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel Пётр Николаевич Врангель The "Black Baron": handed a lost war, he tried to break through with reforms as the White Army's last commander-in-chief Military command · Russian White movement 1878–1928
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Avksentiev Николай Дмитриевич Авксентьев SR Party founder who chaired the last unified anti-Bolshevik government, overthrown by Kolchak Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1878–1943
Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin Василий Витальевич Шульгин The Duma monarchist who took the tsar's abdication and became an ideologue of the White movement Political and party leadership · Russian Empire state institutions 1878–1976
Afanasi Nikolayevich Matushenko Афанасий Николаевич Матюшенко The torpedo quartermaster who headed the Potemkin mutiny, then was hanged in Sevastopol in 1907 Social movements and organizing 1879–1907
Alexander Ilyich Dutov Александр Ильич Дутов Orenburg Cossack ataman who severed Soviet Russia from Turkestan, opening a front between the Volga and the Urals Military command · Russian White movement 1879–1921
Semyon Aronovich Klivansky Семён Аронович Кливанский Menshevik Bundist intellectual who drafted the core of Order No. 1 among the soldiers Social movements and organizing · General Jewish Labour Bund 1879 – 1944 이후
Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1879–1947
Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1879–1967
Mikhail Isaakovich Liber Михаил Исаакович Либер A Menshevik who defended the revolution against its Bolshevik direction Political and party leadership · General Jewish Labour Bund 1880–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov Владимир Михайлович Зензинов A Socialist Revolutionary who defended democratic socialism through exile and testimony Literature and arts · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1880–1953
Irakli Georgievich Tsereteli ირაკლი წერეთელი Architect of Revolutionary Defencism and the man to whom Lenin replied, 'There is such a party!' Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1881–1959
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky Александр Фёдорович Керенский The orator ground away between revolution and counter-revolution Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1881–1970
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1882–1906
Abram Rafailovich Gots Абрам Рафаилович Гоц SR Combat Organization veteran who chaired the first-convocation VTsIK in 1917 Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1882–1940
Nikolai Pavlovich Shmit Николай Павлович Шмит The young furniture-factory heir whose plant became the heart of the Presnya uprising Industry and production · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1883–1907
Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel Владимир Оскарович Каппель The White movement's greatest 'soldier-general': conqueror of Kazan who vanished into the ice Military command · Russian White movement 1883–1920
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin Иван Александрович Ильин Hegelian legal philosopher who deemed October a 'national catastrophe' and became a White émigré ideologue Law and justice 1883–1954
Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyaev Виктор Николаевич Пепеляев The Kadet politician who engineered Kolchak's dictatorship and stood with him to the end Government and administration · Russian White movement 1885–1920
Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1885–1938
Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1885–1960
Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky Владимир Савельевич Войтинский A social democrat who changed course between revolution and economics Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1960
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov Николай Степанович Гумилёв Silver Age poet who founded Acmeism and fell to the Cheka's guns Literature and arts 1886–1921
Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг The White Army warlord who liberated Mongolia and dreamed of reviving the empire of Genghis Khan Military command · Russian White movement 1886–1921
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Питирим Александрович Сорокин SR leader imprisoned by both Tsar and Bolsheviks, who became founder of Harvard's sociology department Scholarship and theory · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1889–1968
Ivan Pavlovich Kalmykov Иван Павлович Калмыков Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks who took Khabarovsk in 1918 and became notorious for shootings without trial and plunder Military command · Russian White movement 1890–1920
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov Николай Васильевич Устрялов Founder of National Bolshevism, the exile who saw the Bolsheviks turning into Russian state-builders Law and justice · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1890–1937
Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov Григорий Михайлович Семёнов The White ataman who ruled Transbaikal under Japanese protection and defied Kolchak Military command · Russian White movement 1890–1946
Anatoly Nikolayevich Pepelyayev Анатолий Николаевич Пепеляев The 27-year-old White general whose Yakut expedition closed the Civil War Military command · Russian White movement 1891–1938
Timofey Ivanovich Kirpichnikov Тимофей Иванович Кирпичников A soldier leader who defied imperial orders Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1892–1917/1918
Anatoly Grigorievich Zheleznyakov Анатолий Григорьевич Железняков The anarchist sailor who dissolved the Constituent Assembly with 'The guard is tired', an icon of the revolution who fell in battle at 24 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1919
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov Александр Васильевич Суворов Russian imperial field marshal and generalissimo, the 'Russian Hannibal' Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1729/1730–1800
Bogusław Zborowski Saul Zborowski The briefly recorded first chair of the Petersburg Soviet Social movements and organizing ?–?
Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin Степан Николаевич Халтурин The carpenter-revolutionary who bombed the Winter Palace and founded Russia's first political workers' organization Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1856/1857–1882

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