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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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Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль
The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1896–1917
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Buenaventura Durruti Buenaventura Durruti
The anarchist metalworker who broke the rising in Barcelona and led the column that carried his name
Social movements and organizing · Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)
1896–1936
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Boris Ignatyevich Arvatov Борис Игнатьевич Арватов
The Saint-Just of the avant-garde, theorist of production art
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1896–1940
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Imre Nagy Nagy Imre
Premier for thirteen days
Government and administration · Hungary
1896–1958
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Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская
Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1896–1966
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Imre Sallai Sallai Imre
Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1897–1932
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Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin Пётр Иванович Смородин
The worker-Bolshevik who built the Komsomol's mass base and made 'study' its watchword
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1939
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Charles Tillon Charles Tillon
A communist who carried working-class militancy into armed resistance
Social movements and organizing · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF)
1897–1993
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Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov Михаил Ефимович Кольцов
A leading voice of Soviet journalism whom Hemingway immortalized as Karkov
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1898–1940
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Kim Won-bong 김원봉
Heroic Corps founder who evolved from anarchist bombings to DPRK cabinet, lone figure spanning the Korean revolutionary spectrum
Social movements and organizing · Workers' Party of North Korea
1898–1958
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Vasile Luca Vasile Luca
Finance minister of the "Muscovite faction", purged on the pretext of the 1952 currency reform and dead in Aiud prison, a Székely Hungarian communist
Political and party leadership · Romania
1898–1963
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Zhou Enlai 周恩来
The PRC's first premier and an architect of its foreign policy
Government and administration · People’s Republic of China
1898–1976
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Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов
An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union
1898–1989
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Jean Pierre Moulin Jean Moulin
The republican who bound a divided Resistance together
Social movements and organizing
1899–1943
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Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов
The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1951
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Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki
A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state
Political and party leadership · Poland
1899–1964
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов
Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1970
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Sreten Žujović Сретен Жујовић
A Stalin supporter at the heart of Tito’s party
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ)
1899–1976
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Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон
The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1899–1981
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Arvīds Yanovich Pelše Арвид Янович Пельше
Brezhnev-era guardian of party discipline and Latvian-born Politburo member
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1983
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Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин
Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1900–1929
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Choe Yong-gon 최용건
The Manchurian guerrilla who became the KPA's first commander and the DPRK's nominal head of state
Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
1900–1976
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Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov Борис Георгиевич Бажанов
The only defector from Stalin's Secretariat, chronicler of Politburo secrets
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1900–1982
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Žanis Lipke Žanis Lipke
Riga docker who used his contract work for the Luftwaffe to smuggle dozens of Jews out of the ghetto and camps and hide them
Social movements and organizing
1900–1987
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Milada Horáková Milada Horáková
Czech politician who resisted both the Nazis and the Communists and was hanged in 1950 after a fabricated treason trial
Social movements and organizing
1901–1950
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Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer
Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1901–1963
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Mikhail Ilyich Romm Михаил Ильич Ромм
The director who built Lenin's screen myth for Stalin, then dissected fascism under the Thaw
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1971
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Jakub Berman Jakub Berman
An architect of Stalinist power in Poland
Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR)
1901–1984
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Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert
A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform
Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
1901–1986
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Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov Георгий Максимилианович Маленков
The first loser of the age when losers stopped dying
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1988
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C. L. R. Lionel Robert James C. L. R. James
The Trinidadian Trotskyist and Pan-Africanist intellectual who revived the Haitian Revolution for Marxist historiography
Scholarship and theory · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1901–1989
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Nikolai Pavlovich Chaplin Николай Павлович Чаплин
The boy commissar who built the Komsomol into the party's youth-training apparatus
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1902–1938
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Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov Евгений Петрович Петров
Co-author with Ilf of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured NEP-era Soviet life and later edited Ogonyok magazine
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1902–1942
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Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis
Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952
Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia
1902–1952
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Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов
The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1902–1976
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Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov Василий Михайлович Андрианов
A Stalin-era regional party boss who ran wartime Sverdlovsk, then rebuilt Leningrad after the Leningrad Affair purges
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1902–1978
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Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко
Stalin's trusted partisan chief who orchestrated the Rail War, pushed aside at the threshold of succession
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1902–1984
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Vasil Pavlovich Mzhavanadze Васил Павлович Мжаванадзе
The Georgian boss who ruled nineteen years, and godfathered a shadow economy
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union
1902–1988
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Sándor Fürst Fürst Sándor
Member of the Hungarian Communist leadership hanged with Imre Sallai after a summary trial that used the Biatorbágy bombing as a pretext
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1903–1932
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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev Александр Васильевич Косарев
The young Komsomol chief who carried out the Great Purge and was then consumed by it
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1939
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Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov Пётр Сергеевич Попков
Wartime steward of besieged Leningrad, first victim of the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1950
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George Padmore George Padmore
From Comintern Negro Bureau chief to architect of Pan-African independence, the revolutionary journalist who broke with empire
Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1903–1959
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Nikolai Ilyich Belyaev Николай Ильич Беляев
Khrushchev loyalist who defended him in 1957, undone by the Temirtau riots
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1966
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов
The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1966
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Averky Borisovich Aristov Аверкий Борисович Аристов
Presidium member born a fisherman's son, party cadres chief who loved to fish
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1973
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Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев
Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1979
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Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский
Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–1936
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Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин
The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1904–1950
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Edmund Veesenmayer Edmund Veesenmayer
SS diplomat who, as Reich plenipotentiary in Hungary in 1944, pressed the Hungarian government to deport its Jews to Auschwitz
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1904–1977
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Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин
Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1904–1982