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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis
Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions
1882–1940
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Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький
Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1882–1941
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум
Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed
Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists)
1882–1945
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Alexander Moiseyevich Schapiro Александр Моисеевич Шапиро
The behind-the-scenes organizer who wove international anarcho-syndicalism from Amsterdam 1907 to the IWMA
Social movements and organizing
1882–1946
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Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst
Left communist who broke from her mother's WSPU to stand with East End working women, buried among Ethiopian patriots
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1882–1960
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Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская
Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern
Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL)
1882–1968
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1883–1921
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский
An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1883–1938
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко
He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Fritz Platten Fritz Platten
Swiss communist who organised Lenin’s sealed-train journey in 1917 and sat on the Comintern’s founding presidium
Social movements and organizing · Independent activity
1883–1942
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Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин
Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1883–1947
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Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов
The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1883–1954
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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
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Ali Aaltonen Ali Aaltonen
Labour journalist and former Russian army officer who became the first commander-in-chief of the Finnish Red Guards
Military command · Social Democratic Party of Finland
1884–1918
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич
Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1928
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Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов
Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1936
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин
The architect of a forbidden future
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1937
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Anton Luckievič Антон Луцкевіч
Founder of the Hramada who, as prime minister of the Belarusian People’s Republic, sought its recognition at the Paris Peace Conference
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1884–1942
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Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов
Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–1918
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Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов
The organizer who linked party and state after October
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1919
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Eino Rahja Eino Rahja
Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918
Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP)
1885–1936
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Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников
Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1937
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Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев
The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1937
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Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek
The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1885–1939
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Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков
From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1949
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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
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György Lukács Lukács György
Founder of Western Marxism: the Hungarian thinker who reoriented 20th-century Marxist philosophy with History and Class Consciousness
Scholarship and theory · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1885–1971
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Sergei Mironovich Kirov Сергей Миронович Киров
The Leningrad organizer whose murder became the pretext for the Great Terror
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1934
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов
The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский
The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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Yeo Un-hyeong 여운형
He met Lenin and Sun Yat-sen, then staked everything on left-right unity: the last Korean unificationist before partition
Social movements and organizing · Kuomintang
1886–1947
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Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий
Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1924
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Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков
A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1936
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Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов
Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1937
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов
From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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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
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev Павел Петрович Постышев
Stalin's famine envoy and terror executor called the 'hangman of Ukraine', executed in 1939
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1939
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Hugo Eberlein Hugo Eberlein
German Communist who abstained on the Comintern’s founding at its first congress and was later shot in the Great Purge
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1887–1941
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Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев
A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1949
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Manabendra Nath Roy মানবেন্দ্র নাথ রায়
The Indian Marxist who debated Lenin on colonial revolution
Political and party leadership · Comintern
1887–1954
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Omer Nishani Omer Nishani
Albanian physician and politician, the people's republic's formal first head of state
Social movements and organizing
1887–1954
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Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская
Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1960
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Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман
Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1961
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Viktor Kingissepp Viktor Kingissepp
Bolshevik who led the underground communist party in independent Estonia and was executed
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1888–1922
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Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов
Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1888–1928
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union
1888–1936
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Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович
Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Elbegdorj Rinchinovich Rinchino Элбек-Доржи Ринчинович Ринчино
Buryat revolutionary, drafter of Mongolia's 1924 constitution, victim of the Great Terror
Political and party leadership · Mongolia
1888–1938
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Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников
The finance commissar of NEP stabilization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1939
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Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser
Christian Democrat who led the CDU in the Soviet zone until SMAD removed him, then became West Germany’s minister for all-German affairs
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1888–1961