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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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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Gallipoli commander who led the national movement and founded the Republic of Turkey as its first president
Political and party leadership · Turkey state institutions
1881–1938
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Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев
Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1881–1940
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Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი
Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Diplomacy and international organization · Georgia state institutions
1881–1954
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Irakli Georgievich Tsereteli ირაკლი წერეთელი
Architect of Revolutionary Defencism and the man to whom Lenin replied, 'There is such a party!'
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1881–1959
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William Z. Zebulon Foster William Zebulon Foster
From leading the Great Steel Strike of 1919 to longest-serving leader of American communism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1881–1961
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Väinö Alfred Tanner Väinö Alfred Tanner
The Social Democratic realist who faced Stalin as Finland's Winter War foreign minister, rising from the cooperative movement
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Finland
1881–1966
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Heinrich Brandler Heinrich Brandler
KPD chairman who called off a revolution; co-founder of the International Right Opposition
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1881–1967
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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky Александр Фёдорович Керенский
The orator ground away between revolution and counter-revolution
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1881–1970
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин
Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1882–1906
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Abram Rafailovich Gots Абрам Рафаилович Гоц
SR Combat Organization veteran who chaired the first-convocation VTsIK in 1917
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1882–1940
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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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Kâzım Karabekir Kâzım Karabekir
Eastern Front commander of the Turkish War of Independence who invaded Armenia in 1920 and imposed the Treaty of Alexandropol
Military command · Turkey state institutions
1882–1948
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Georgi Mihaylov Dimitrov Георги Михайлов Димитров
From Leipzig defendant to Comintern General Secretary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1949
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Prosh Perchevich Proshian Прош Перчевич Прошьян
Left SR People's Commissar in the first Soviet coalition: 'the core of the party'
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1883–1918
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Eugen Leviné Eugen Leviné
Communist who led the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and was shot after its fall
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1883–1919
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский
Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1883–1919
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Paul Levi Paul Levi
From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1883–1930
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев
He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев
The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин
Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1936
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Vaclau Lastouski Вацлаў Ластоўскі
Historian who headed the government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in exile, moved to Soviet Byelorussia and was executed
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1883–1938
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Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева
Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1883–1941
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Henk Sneevliet Henk Sneevliet
The Dutch revolutionary who planted communist seeds in Indonesia and China, then fought both Stalinism and Nazism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)
1883–1942
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Wang Jingwei 汪精卫
Sun Yat-sen’s heir and Kuomintang left leader who ended as head of the Japanese-sponsored Nanjing regime
Political and party leadership · Kuomintang
1883–1944
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Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini
The dictator who turned fascism into state power
Political and party leadership · National Fascist Party (PNF)
1883–1945
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Cho Man-sik 조만식
Kodang Cho Man-sik, the Korean Democratic Party leader removed from the northern political stage in 1946
Political and party leadership · Democratic Party of Korea
1883–1950
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István Friedrich Friedrich István
Factory owner who was prime minister of Hungary for three months after the August 1919 coup against the Peidl government
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1883–1951
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Clement Attlee Clement Attlee
The laconic reformer who replaced Churchill mid-Potsdam and built Britain's postwar welfare state
Government and administration · United Kingdom state institutions
1883–1967
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Pan Halippa Pan Halippa
Journalist and politician who, as vice-president and later president of Sfatul Țării, led the movement for Bessarabia’s union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1883–1979
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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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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
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Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt
Head of the Estonian Workers' Commune and leader of the 1924 rising
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1937
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Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов
From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy
Education · Soviet Union
1884–1938
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Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț
Bessarabian politician who presided over Sfatul Țării and the Moldavian Democratic Republic and saw through its union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1940
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Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova Мария Александровна Спиридонова
Face of the Left SR Party and peasant tribune: the last revolutionary opposition leader to challenge the Bolsheviks from the left
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1884–1941
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August Thalheimer August Thalheimer
Main theorist of the KPD and Bonapartist analyst of fascism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO)
1884–1948
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Mammad Amin Rasulzade Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə
Musavat leader who headed the Azerbaijani National Council that declared the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918
Political and party leadership
1884–1955
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Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký
Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia
1884–1957
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Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan
Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first
Government and administration · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1971
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İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü
Officer who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne and succeeded Atatürk as Turkey’s second president
Political and party leadership · Turkey state institutions
1884–1973
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Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl
National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia
1884–1975
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Alexandra Petrovna Kim Александра Петровна Ким
The first Korean communist, who gave her life bridging the Russian Revolution and Korean liberation
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1918
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Noman Çelebicihan Номан Челебиджихан
First head of the Crimean People’s Republic, the first elected mufti of Crimea and the poet of the Crimean Tatar anthem
Government and administration
1885–1918
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Danzan Данзан
Founding member and first party chairman, shot as a 'bourgeois'
Political and party leadership · Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
1885–1924
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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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Boris Davidovich Kamkov Борис Давидович Камков
Co-founder and chief theoretician of the Left SR Party: from coalition with the Bolsheviks to the July 1918 uprising
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1885–1938
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Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев
The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1885–1938
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François de La Rocque François de La Rocque
The colonel of the Croix-de-Feu who turned his columns away from the Chamber
Political and party leadership
1885–1946
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Ho Hon 허헌
From civil-rights lawyer of the March 1st Movement to first Chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly: a progressive nationalist
Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of South Korea
1885–1951