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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 628 Government and administration 304 Legislature and state representation 70 Monarchs and royalty 24 Military command 520 Security, intelligence and policing 232 Diplomacy and international organization 163 Economy, finance and planning 147 Industry and production 110 Agriculture and land policy 36 Ideology and propaganda 103 Social movements and organizing 374 Scholarship and theory 278 Education 17 Science and technology 146 Literature and arts 141 Religion 20 Law and justice 55

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 14 Soviet Unionstate 12 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2 French First Republic state institutionsstate 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

All 14 affiliations

Angola

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 1

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

France

French First Republic state institutionsstate 1 Jacobin Club 1

Germany

Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Hungary

Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 14 Soviet Unionstate 12

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1 Socialist Party of America 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 3 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Dissident 6 Anarchists 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 5 Narodniks 1 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 1 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 2 Russian revolutionary democrats 2 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 61

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 85 Russia 14 France 6 United States 5 Czechoslovakia 4 Germany 4 China 3 Hungary 3 Poland 2 United Kingdom 2 Angola 1 Belarus 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Indonesia 1 Latvia 1 South Africa 1 South Korea 1 Spain 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Turkey 1 Ukraine 1 Vietnam 1

Background

Any Russia 79 Latvia 6 Ukraine 6 France 5 Germany 5 Poland 5 Belarus 4 China 3 Hungary 3 United States 3 Czechia 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Estonia 2 Georgia 2 United Kingdom 2 Angola 1 Azerbaijan 1 Indonesia 1 Korea 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Martinique 1 South Africa 1 Spain 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Turkey 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 10 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 38 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 26 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 17 The last generation1985–1991 10

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 2

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 18 Scholars of this history1892–현재 3

Literature and arts

141 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges Writer who demanded women’s civil and political rights Literature and arts · Independent activity 1748–1793
Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David Neoclassical painter of the French Revolution Literature and arts · French First Republic state institutions 1748–1825
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский Literary critic called the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia Literature and arts 1811–1848
Eugène Pottier Eugène Pottier Textile designer and poet, a member of the Commune, who wrote the words of “The Internationale” in hiding after Bloody Week Literature and arts · International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1816–1887
Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Михаил Никифорович Катков The 'thunderer of Russia' who swayed opinion and court through the Russian Messenger and Moscow News Literature and arts 1818–1887
Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet Realist painter who led the Commune’s Federation of Artists and went into Swiss exile blamed for the Vendôme Column Literature and arts · Independent activity 1819–1877
Nikolai Alexeyevich Nekrasov Николай Алексеевич Некрасов Poet-publisher who sang the peasants' suffering and turned Pushkin's Sovremennik into the center of revolutionary literature Literature and arts 1821–1878
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 19th-century Russia's greatest satirist, who mercilessly ridiculed autocracy and serfdom Literature and arts 1826–1889
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Лев Николаевич Толстой The Count who wrote War and Peace, then declared war on the state and the Church Literature and arts 1828–1910
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev Дмитрий Иванович Писарев The standard-bearer of Russian nihilism who declared that what can be smashed must be smashed Literature and arts 1840–1868
Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinsky Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский He killed the tsar's gendarme chief with a dagger, then introduced the Russian revolution to the West with his pen Literature and arts 1851–1895
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko Владимир Галактионович Короленко The conscience of Russian letters who rejected both tsar and Bolshevik Literature and arts 1853–1921
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system Literature and arts 1863–1938
Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1863–1949
Léon Daudet Léon Daudet The voice of Action Française, the polemicist who pushed a scandal from the page into the street day after day Literature and arts 1867–1942
Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький The stormy petrel, caged Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1936
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon' Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1868–1953
Emma Goldman Эмма Гольдман Exiled revolutionary who made anarchism an international political movement Literature and arts 1869–1940
Nariman Najaf oglu Narimanov Нариман Наджаф оглы Нариманов From Azerbaijani Enlightener to a Head of the Soviet State Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1870–1925
Andrievs Niedra Andrievs Niedra Pastor and writer who headed Latvia's pro-German government of 1919 Literature and arts 1871–1942
Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1874–1939
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1940
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Александр Александрович Блок Russia's foremost Symbolist poet who embraced the October Revolution Literature and arts 1880–1921
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко Ukrainian Social Democratic writer who led the Rada's General Secretariat and the Directory Government and administration · Ukrainian People's Republic 1880–1951
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
Lu Xun 鲁迅 Author of The True Story of Ah Q, father of modern Chinese literature who carried May Fourth’s critical spirit into the left-wing league Literature and arts 1881–1936
Alexei N. Nikolaevich Tolstoy Алексей Николаевич Толстой The Red Count: from émigré to pillar of Stalinist letters Literature and arts 1883–1945
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov Александр Васильевич Александров From choirboy to Soviet anthem composer, founder of the Red Army Choir Literature and arts 1883–1946
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built Literature and arts 1885–1953
Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong The American journalist who chronicled the Russian and Chinese revolutions from the inside, founder of Moscow News Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1885–1970
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov Николай Степанович Гумилёв Silver Age poet who founded Acmeism and fell to the Cheka's guns Literature and arts 1886–1921
John Reed John Reed From eyewitness of the Bolshevik Revolution to founder of the Communist Labor Party of America: an American buried at the Kremlin Wall Literature and arts · Independent activity 1887–1920
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova Анна Андреевна Ахматова The poet who waited at the prison gates Literature and arts 1889–1966
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
El Markovich Lissitzky Эль Маркович Лисицкий Co-creator of Constructivism who turned Suprematism into architecture, the international link of the revolutionary avant-garde Literature and arts 1890–1941
Victor Lvovich Serge Виктор Львович Серж The Comintern writer-revolutionary who bore literary witness to revolution and the rise of Stalinism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1947
Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels Соломон Михайлович Михоэлс The Yiddish theatre titan who toured the world for Stalin's war effort and was murdered on Stalin's orders Literature and arts 1890–1948
Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1952
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Борис Леонидович Пастернак The poet of Doctor Zhivago and the refused Nobel Prize Literature and arts 1890–1960
Béla Bacsó Bacsó Béla Socialist writer and Népszava journalist murdered with Béla Somogyi in 1920 for writing against the White Terror Ideology and propaganda 1891–1920
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам The poet preserved by memory Literature and arts 1891–1938
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The unpublished writer of the devil Literature and arts 1891–1940
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев The 20th-century master who crossed revolution, emigration, and return, a giant of Soviet music Literature and arts 1891–1953

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