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Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов The man who made Lenin furious over philosophy, then died swapping his own blood: a forerunner of cybernetics Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1928
Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1873–1941
Alfred Rosmer Alfred Rosmer From syndicalism through the Comintern to the Fourth International: a French internationalist across a century of revolution Social movements and organizing · General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 1877–1964
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1940
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
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
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
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
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
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
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
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
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
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Isaac Zakharyevich Steinberg Исаак Захарович Штейнберг First People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin: the Left SR who defended revolutionary legality against the Cheka Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1888–1957
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
Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 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 state institutions 1890–1937
James P. Cannon James P. Cannon The labor organizer who read Trotsky's critique in Moscow and founded the American Trotskyist movement Political and party leadership · Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1890–1974
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
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp Political and party leadership · Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1892–1947
Boris Konstantinovich Souvarine Boris Souvarine The only non-Bolshevik on all three leading Comintern bodies. And author of the first critical Stalin biography. Scholarship and theory · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1895–1984
Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1897–1935
Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions ?–1920
Leonid Petrovich Serebryakov Леонид Петрович Серебряков The Left Opposition secretary whom Lenin called a 'brilliant worker' Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1888/1890–1937