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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 32 Government and administration 9 Military command 10 Security, intelligence and policing 11 Diplomacy and international organization 10 Economy, finance and planning 3 Industry and production 2 Agriculture and land policy 1 Social movements and organizing 27 Scholarship and theory 5 Science and technology 3 Literature and arts 5 Religion 2 Law and justice 3

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 23 Poland state institutions 22 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 21 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 20 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 12 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 11 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 10 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7

All 26 affiliations

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 2 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Poland

Poland state institutions 22 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 20 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 11 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 12 Polish People's Party (PSL) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 7 Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 7 Freedom Union (Poland) 5 Democratic Union (Poland) 4

Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 10

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 21 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 1 ↳ Left Opposition 2 Soviet Union state institutions 23

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1

United States

United States state institutions 1 Democratic Party (United States) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 8 Left critics of Bolshevism 4 Socialist-bloc reform leader 12 Dissident 13 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 45 Agrarianism and peasant parties 1 Nationalism 1

Citizenship

Any Poland 55 Soviet Union 32 Germany 2 Russia 2 United Kingdom 2 United States 2 Israel 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 1139 Germany 136 United States 128 France 125 Ukraine 120 Poland 96 Hungary 86 China 72 United Kingdom 62 Belarus 56 Latvia 43 Georgia 42 Armenia 35 Lithuania 30 Estonia 28 Finland 27 Czechia 25 Japan 25 Spain 21 Azerbaijan 19 Italy 19 Romania 15 Vietnam 15 Czechoslovakia 13 Moldova 13 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 12 Greece 11 Angola 10 Bulgaria 10 Korea 10 Serbia 10 Uzbekistan 10 Cambodia 9 Cuba 9 Albania 8 Austria 8 Yemen 8 Congo - Brazzaville 7 Croatia 7 Kazakhstan 7 Mongolia 7 Turkey 7 Ethiopia 6 Kyrgyzstan 6 Slovakia 6 Afghanistan 5 India 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 South Africa 5 Benin 4 Ireland 4 Somalia 4 Tajikistan 4 Turkmenistan 4 Belgium 3 Chile 3 Indonesia 3 Mozambique 3 Netherlands 3 Switzerland 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Brazil 2 East Germany 2 Martinique 2 Montenegro 2 Slovenia 2 Argentina 1 Australia 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Burkina Faso 1 Canada 1 DR Congo 1 Egypt 1 El Salvador 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guinea-Bissau 1 Guyana 1 Iran 1 Israel 1 Myanmar 1 New Zealand 1 Nicaragua 1 Palestine 1 Peru 1 Portugal 1 South Korea 1 Sweden 1 Tanzania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 2 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 11 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 3

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 16 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 43 Scholars of this history1892–현재 4

Background: Poland

96 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Jarosław Dąbrowski Jarosław Dąbrowski Organiser of the Polish rising of 1863 who became a general of the Commune and fell at Montmartre in Bloody Week Military command 1836–1871
Feliks Yakovlevich Kon Феликс Яковлевич Кон From Warsaw boy patriot to Comintern old revolutionary: the Pole who returned in the sealed train Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1864–1941
Lucjan Żeligowski Lucjan Żeligowski Polish general who seized Vilnius in a staged 'mutiny' and set up Central Lithuania Military command · Poland state institutions 1865–1947
Julian Józefowicz Marchlewski Julian Marchlewski A Pole who passed through the German and Russian revolutions and tried to bring revolution home Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1866–1925
Leo Jogiches Leo Jogiches The revolution's underground organizer, always behind the scenes, until he had to lead Political and party leadership · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1867–1919
Józef Piłsudski Józef Piłsudski The soldier-politician who began as a socialist, became Head of State of reborn Poland, broke the Red Army's westward drive at Warsaw in 1920, and later ruled through a coup-built authoritarian regime Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1867–1935
Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg “Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently” Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1871–1919
Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1871–1923
Stanisław Grabski Stanisław Grabski An Endecja theorist who pressed for a Polish nation-state Political and party leadership · Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1871–1949
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
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1934
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1875–1937
Roman Vatslavovich Malinovsky Роман Вацлавович Малиновский Bolshevik Central Committee member and Duma leader who was the Okhrana's best-paid spy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1918
Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1951
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1877–1926
Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky Яков Станиславович Ганецкий The Polish revolutionary who ran Lenin's financial pipeline from Kraków to Stockholm Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1938
Jan Dąbski Jan Dąbski A peasant-movement diplomat who shaped the Riga peace Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions 1880–1931
Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return Military command · Poland state institutions 1881–1943
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1937
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
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1954
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski A military leader who shaped Poland's independence struggle and armed forces in exile Military command · Poland state institutions 1885–1969
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
Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам The poet preserved by memory Literature and arts 1891–1938
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
Edward Raczyński Edward Raczyński An aristocratic diplomat who preserved Poland’s diplomatic continuity in exile Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions 1891–1993
Stanislav Frantsevich Redens Станислав Францевич Реденс Stalin's brother-in-law who chaired the Moscow troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1940
Bolesław Bierut Bolesław Bierut Stalin's most trusted East European proxy, architect of Poland's Stalinist system and guardian of the Oder–Neisse border Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1892–1956
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
Stefan Rowecki Stefan Paweł Rowecki An underground commander who grasped Tempest's political conditions Military command · Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1895–1944
Antoni None Chruściel Antoni Chruściel The Home Army commander who organized and launched the uprising Military command · Poland state institutions 1895–1960
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski The Home Army commander whose decision led to both the uprising and its surrender Military command · Poland state institutions 1895–1966
Dziga Arkadyevich Vertov Дзига Аркадьевич Вертов Founder of Kino-Eye: the documentary revolutionary who believed the camera captures truth more completely than the human eye Literature and arts 1896–1954
Konstantin Ksaveryevich (birth) / Konstantinovich (later) Rokossovsky Константин Константинович Рокоссовский Marshal of two nations, the USSR and Poland, who commanded the 1945 Victory Parade Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1968
Ignaty Ignatyevich Sosnovsky Игнатий Игнатьевич Сосновский A Polish intelligence agent turned Cheka counter-intelligence officer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1937
Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1937
Ignace Stanislavovich Reiss Игнатий Станиславович Рейсс Soviet illegal who broke publicly with Stalin and was murdered by the NKVD Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1937
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky Вальтер Германович Кривицкий The defector who first told the West how Stalin's secret service worked Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1941
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
Michał Kalecki Michał Kalecki The Marxist macroeconomist who formalized effective demand before Keynes Scholarship and theory 1899–1970
Stanisław Hejmowski Stanisław Hejmowski The lawyer who confronted state violence Law and justice 1900–1969
Stanisław Mikołajczyk Stanisław Mikołajczyk An agrarian statesman who negotiated between the government-in-exile and Stalin Political and party leadership · Polish People's Party (PSL) 1901–1966
Stefan Wyszyński Stefan Wyszyński The archbishop who defended the Church's autonomy under communism Religion 1901–1981
Jakub Berman Jakub Berman An architect of Stalinist power in Poland Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1901–1984
Stanislav Gilyarovich Poplavsky Станислав Гилярович Поплавский A Polish-born Soviet general who commanded the suppression of the Poznań uprising Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1973
Władysław Gomułka Władysław Gomułka The national communist who returned in the Polish October of 1956 to test a 'Polish road to socialism' Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1905–1982

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