People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin Михаил Александрович Бакунин Marx's greatest rival: founder of collectivist anarchism, at the center of the First International's great split
- Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин Rurikid prince, founder of anarcho-communism, geographer of Mutual Aid: escaped the Peter and Paul Fortress
- Elisabeth Lukinichna Dmitrieff Елизавета Лукинична Кушелева Russian revolutionary who organized the Paris Commune's Women's Union
- Pavel Borisovich Axelrod Павел Борисович Аксельрод Theorist of the mass workers' party: the argument that lost to Lenin's vanguard
- Alexander Lvovich Parvus Александр Львович Парвус Co-author of permanent revolution who arranged Lenin's sealed train: the 'merchant of revolution'
- Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin
- Emma Goldman Эмма Гольдман Exiled revolutionary who made anarchism an international political movement
- Alexander Osipovich Berkman Александр Осипович Беркман Anarchist writer who served 14 years for the Frick assassination attempt, then broke with the Soviet state
- Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin