People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky Пётр Васильевич Вологодский A lawyer-statesman who held White Siberia together through compromise
- Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor
- Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed
- Alexander Moiseyevich Schapiro Александр Моисеевич Шапиро The behind-the-scenes organizer who wove international anarcho-syndicalism from Amsterdam 1907 to the IWMA
- Eugen Leviné Eugen Leviné Communist who led the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and was shot after its fall
- Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov Яков Александрович Слащёв White general who held the Perekop gateway
- Elbegdorj Rinchinovich Rinchino Элбек-Доржи Ринчинович Ринчино Buryat revolutionary, drafter of Mongolia's 1924 constitution, victim of the Great Terror
- Arkadi Maslow Аркадий Маслов The pianist-turned-revolutionary who drove the KPD's ultra-left turn, and became the anti-Stalinist left's perpetual dissident
- Grigory Naumovich Voitinsky Григорий Наумович Войтинский The Comintern's first envoy who midwifed the Chinese Communist Party
- Paul Karađorđević Pavle Karađorđević A regent pressed toward the Axis while trying to keep Yugoslavia out of war
- Boris Konstantinovich Souvarine Boris Souvarine The only non-Bolshevik on all three leading Comintern bodies. And author of the first critical Stalin biography.