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People

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 175 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 21 Left Opposition 16 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 8 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6

All 70 affiliations

Albania

Party of Labour of Albania 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 2

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 3 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 2

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1 Cordeliers Club 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1 Enragés 1 Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2 Jacobin Club 2

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 8 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Hungary

Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 1

India

Indian National Congress 1

Romania

Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 21 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Narodnaya Volya 6 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 Our Home – Russia 1

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1 African National Congress (ANC) 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 175 ↳ Left Communists 4 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 ↳ Workers' Opposition 2 ↳ Left Opposition 16 ↳ Union of Marxist-Leninists (Ryutin group) 1 Soviet Unionstate 5

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 2 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 4 Democratic Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 2

Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 33 Socialist-bloc reform leader 9 Dissident 17 Anarchists 11 Non-Bolshevik socialists 20 Narodniks 7 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 5 Fascists and Nazis 1 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 7 Western Marxist theorists 4 Marxism and communism 238 Early socialism 1 Revolutionary socialism 3 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Nationalism 6

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 205 Russia 39 France 23 Poland 18 Germany 13 Hungary 11 United States 6 Estonia 5 United Kingdom 5 China 4 Czechoslovakia 4 Romania 4 Belarus 3 Spain 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Albania 2 Czechia 2 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2 Finland 2 Greece 2 Korea 2 South Africa 2 Switzerland 2 Austria 1 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 East Germany 1 El Salvador 1 India 1 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Madagascar 1 Vietnam 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 179 Poland 27 France 21 Ukraine 17 Germany 15 Belarus 12 Hungary 12 Georgia 8 Latvia 7 Estonia 6 China 5 Czechia 4 Finland 4 Lithuania 4 United States 4 Korea 3 Romania 3 Spain 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 United Kingdom 3 Albania 2 Bulgaria 2 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2 Greece 2 Moldova 2 Serbia 2 South Africa 2 Switzerland 2 Armenia 1 Azerbaijan 1 Brazil 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 El Salvador 1 India 1 Ireland 1 Madagascar 1 Martinique 1 Slovakia 1 Uzbekistan 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 27 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 91 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 44 The last generation1985–1991 30

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3 The reform generation1976–현재 1

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 7

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 14 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 64 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 52

Social movements and organizing

374 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1888–1970
Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1889–1922
Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1935
Stanislav Vikentyevich Kosior Станислав Викентьевич Косиор The Ukrainian party boss who denied the famine, felled by Stalin's bullet Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1939
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1969
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution' Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1890–1918
Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror Military command · Hungary 1890–1919
Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine 1890–1937
Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin Мартемьян Никитич Рютин Right Oppositionist who authored the 'Ryutin Platform': the last organized intra-party call to remove Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1937
Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46 Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine 1890–1937
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
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
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Elizabeth Flynn "East Side Joan of Arc": from the IWW's Rebel Girl to first woman chair of the CPUSA Social movements and organizing · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1890–1964
Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1970
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
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1937
Vladislav Vikentyevich Kosior Владислав Викентьевич Косиор The Kosior brother who died in Vorkuta as an oppositionist while his brother ruled Ukraine for Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1938
Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrebyshev Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев Stalin's shadow: secretary who filtered all information, drafted the 1936 Constitution & Short Course, ran the Special Sector for 25 years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1965
Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1891–1973
Asja Ernestovna Lācis Asja Lācis Proletarian children's theatre pioneer who led Walter Benjamin to Marxism and Brecht Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1979
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924
Andreu Nin Andreu Nin The Marxist who linked the Russian and Spanish revolutions, founder of the POUM Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 1892–1937
Ivar Tenisovich Smilga Ivars Smilga The young oppositionist of the Revolutionary Military Council Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1892–1937
Karl Yanovich Bauman Карл Янович Бауман A party organiser who drove collectivisation forward Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1892–1937
Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1892–1938
Mirsaid Khaydargalievich Sultan-Galiev Мирсаид Хайдаргалиевич Султан-Галиев The architect of Islamic socialism and national communism who became Stalin's first ideological purge victim Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1892–1940
Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1956
Agustín Farabundo Martí Agustín Farabundo Martí Father of Central American communism, Sandino's colonel, martyr of La Matanza Social movements and organizing 1893–1932
Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1933
Mendel Markovich Khataevich Мендель Маркович Хатаевич The party secretary who warned Molotov that grain seizures would leave nobody to plant, shot four years later Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Vladimir Ivanovich Polonsky Владимир Иванович Полонский Bolshevik Orgotdel chief and trade-union officer purged in 1937 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1893–1938
Berty Albrecht Berty Albrecht A feminist who carried anti-fascism into clandestine resistance Social movements and organizing 1893–1943
Klavdiya Ivanovna Nikolaeva Клавдия Ивановна Николаева The printworker who rose to the Central Committee: a proletarian woman revolutionary Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1944
Soong Ching-ling 宋庆龄 Sun Yat-sen’s widow who stayed with the Kuomintang left and became a vice-chair of the People’s Republic Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of China 1893–1981
Jānis Eduardovich Kalnbērziņš Ян Эдуардович Калнберзинь Founding leader of Soviet Latvia and the longest-serving republican First Secretary among the Baltic republics Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1986
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович 'Iron Lazar', Stalin's hard-line enforcer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1991
Boris Mikhailovich Donskoy Борис Михайлович Донской Left SR sailor who killed the German field marshal Eichhorn with a bomb in Kiev in 1918 and was hanged Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1894–1918
Gavrilo Princip Гаврило Принцип Young Bosnia member who shot dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in 1914 Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1894–1918
Ottó Korvin Korvin Ottó Communist who ran the political police of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as head of its political investigation department Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1894–1919
Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1920
Iosif Mikhailovich Vareikis Иосиф Михайлович Варейкис Regional party boss of collectivization and the Great Terror who heard Stalin ask why there were so many spies on his watch Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1938
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1956
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Boris Petrovich Sheboldaev Борис Петрович Шеболдаев Party master of the Azov-Black Sea krai, brought down on the eve of the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1937
Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west Social movements and organizing · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1895–1964
Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev Андрей Андреевич Андреев The organization man who sat in the Politburo for 20 years, the CC secretary most often dispatched to purge the regions Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1971
Kazys Škirpa Kazys Škirpa Lithuanian officer and envoy in Berlin who founded the Lithuanian Activist Front behind the June Uprising of 1941 Diplomacy and international organization · Lithuania state institutions 1895–1979
Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda A national hero of two world wars who became an unlikely last bastion of the Prague Spring Military command · Czechoslovakia 1895–1979