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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 12 Government and administration 7 Monarchs and royalty 3 Military command 33 Security, intelligence and policing 6 Industry and production 1 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 1 Social movements and organizing 1 Scholarship and theory 1 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 1 Religion 2 Law and justice 2

Affiliation

Most people

Any Russian Empire state institutions 39 Russian White movement 16 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 8 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 3 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 2 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Russian Orthodox Church 2 Nazi party and regime 1

All 11 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 39 Russian White movement 16 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 8 Russian Provisional Government state institutions 1 Russian Orthodox Church 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 2 Soviet Union state institutions 1

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 66 Counter-revolutionary forces 4 Left critics of Bolshevism 30 Socialist-bloc reform leader 17 Dissident 7 Anarchists 10 Non-Bolshevik socialists 30 Narodniks 17 Russian revolutionary democrats 6 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 846 Liberalism and republicanism 3 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Monarchy and royalism 1 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Russia 58 Soviet Union 8

Background(set)

Any Russia 66 Germany 2 Armenia 1 Georgia 1 Kazakhstan 1 Poland 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 60 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 1 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 4

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1

Imperial establishment and White movement Background: Russia Clear all

66 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin Дмитрий Алексеевич Милютин The Great Reforms' military architect, who forged Russia's army into a modern conscript force over twenty years as war minister Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1816–1912
Alexander Nikolayevich II Александр Николаевич II The Tsar who tried to modernize the old regime from above through emancipation and reform, and became the revolutionaries' prime target Monarchs and royalty · Russian Empire state institutions 1818–1881
Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Михаил Никифорович Катков The 'thunderer of Russia' who swayed opinion and court through the Russian Messenger and Moscow News Literature and arts 1818–1887
Ivan Logginovich Goremykin Иван Логгинович Горемыкин The empire's last prime minister who believed doing nothing would save autocracy Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1839–1917
Alexander Alexandrovich III Александр Александрович III The 'Peacemaker' who reversed the Great Reforms and re-established autocracy as the unshakeable creed of the Russian state Monarchs and royalty · Russian Empire state institutions 1845–1894
Fyodor Vasilyevich Dubasov Фёдор Васильевич Дубасов Imperial Russian admiral who crushed the Moscow December uprising with artillery fire Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1845–1912
Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo Пётр Николаевич Дурново The imperial interior minister who crushed the 1905 Revolution and foretold Russia's collapse in the Great War Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1845–1915
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve Вячеслав Константинович фон Плеве The last hardline Interior Minister of tsarism, who urged a "small victorious war" to hold back revolution Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1846–1904
Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky Зиновий Петрович Рожественский The Imperial Russian admiral who led the Baltic Fleet to catastrophe at Tsushima Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1848–1909
Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev Сергей Андреевич Муромцев The Roman law scholar and Kadet leader who chaired Russia's first constitutional parliament Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1850–1910
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn Николай Дмитриевич Голицын The last premier of the empire, who begged to be excused Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1850–1925
Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov Владимир Викторович Сахаров Cavalry general who led the 11th Army in the Brusilov Offensive and joined the White movement Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1853–1920
Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov Алексей Алексеевич Брусилов Designer of the 1916 Brusilov Offensive and the last great tsarist commander, who later joined the Red Army Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1853–1926
Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky Николай Владимирович Рузский The Northern Front commander who forced the Tsar's abdication at Pskov Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1854–1918
Fyodor Izmailovich Rodichev Фёдор Измайлович Родичев Kadet orator who branded the gallows 'Stolypin's necktie' Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1854–1933
Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov Дмитрий Фёдорович Трепов The face of 1905: repression orders in one hand, reform promises in the other Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1855–1906
Nicholas Nikolaevich Romanov Николай Николаевич Романов The Grand Duke who drew a revolver on the Tsar and forced constitutional reform Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1856–1929
Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirsky Пётр Дмитриевич Святополк-Мирский The interior minister whose 'era of trust' promised reform, and ended in Bloody Sunday Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1857–1914
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev Михаил Васильевич Алексеев The tsar's last chief of staff, who commanded the Eastern Front and laid the foundation of the White Volunteer Army Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1857–1918
Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov Сергей Семёнович Хабалов Last commander of the Petrograd Military District, who ordered troops to fire on crowds and then lost control of the garrison Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1858–1929
Pavel Milyukov Павел Милюков Leader of the Kadets: 'Stupidity or Treason?' Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1859–1943
Alexey Maksimovich Kaledin Алексей Максимович Каледин Don Cossack ataman who opened the first White stronghold in the south Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1861–1918
Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov Георгий Евгеньевич Львов A scion of Rurik, the Empire's last liberal premier Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1861–1925
Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich Николай Николаевич Юденич The last great commander of Imperial Russia, who won the Caucasus Front and led the White drive on Petrograd Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1862–1933
Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov Александр Иванович Гучков Octobrist leader who received the Tsar's abdication: Boer War volunteer turned Provisional Government minister Political and party leadership · Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1862–1936
Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov Сергей Васильевич Зубатов The police administrator who tried to tame the labor movement from inside the Tsarist system Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1864–1917
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Kishkin Николай Михайлович Кишкин The Kadet minister named special plenipotentiary to save Petrograd on the day of the October Revolution Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1864–1930
Alexander Nikolaevich Kozlovsky Александр Николаевич Козловский Tsarist artillery general at Kronstadt whom the Bolsheviks falsely named as ringleader of the 1921 rebellion Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1864–1940
Tikhon Patriarch Тихон The patriarch who led the Russian Church through revolution Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1865–1925
Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov Александр Дмитриевич Протопопов The last interior minister of the Russian Empire: elevated by Rasputin, destroyed by his own unraveling Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1866–1918
Alexander Pavlovich Balk Александр Павлович Балк Last Petrograd city governor of imperial Russia, the police official who faced the February Revolution's tide Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire state institutions 1866–1957
Vladimir Zenonovich May-Mayevsky Владимир Зенонович Май-Маевский The White general who led the Volunteer Army closest to Moscow, only to collapse from overstretched lines and alcoholism Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1867–1920
Yevgeny Karlovich Miller Евгений Карлович Миллер Baltic German tsarist general who commanded the White Northern Army and was kidnapped by the NKVD in Paris Military command · Russian White movement 1867–1939
Nicholas II Николай II The last Tsar, who believed autocracy was a duty from God Monarchs and royalty · Russian Empire state institutions 1868–1918
Alexander Alexandrovich Rittich Александр Александрович Риттих The last tsarist agriculture minister, whose grain requisition ignited the bread crisis that sparked the February Revolution Agriculture and land policy · Russian Empire state institutions 1868–1930
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin Григорий Ефимович Распутин The Siberian “holy man” who reached the imperial bedchamber Political and party leadership · Russian Empire state institutions 1869–1916
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov Пётр Николаевич Краснов The White ataman who built a Don Cossack anti-Bolshevik state, collaborated with the Nazis, and was a Nobel Prize-nominated novelist Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1869–1947
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich Владимир Митрофанович Пуришкевич The far-right monarchist who hurled water glasses in the Duma and shot Rasputin Political and party leadership 1870–1920
Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1870–1944
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Krymov Александр Михайлович Крымов Imperial Russian cavalry general who led Kornilov's march on Petrograd Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1871–1917
Mikhail Vasilyevich Hanzhin Михаил Васильевич Ханжин The artillery general who led Kolchak's drive to the Volga and was broken by Frunze's counterstroke Military command · Russian White movement 1871–1961
Anton Ivanovich Denikin Антон Иванович Деникин The White commander who drove the largest anti-Bolshevik army to within 400 km of Moscow Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1872–1947
Benjamin Pavlovich Kazansky Василий Павлович Казанский A metropolitan who defended church control of famine relief while protecting sacred objects Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1873–1922
Semyon Leontyevich Maslov Семён Леонтьевич Маслов A Socialist-Revolutionary agrarian thinker who championed peasant cooperation Agriculture and land policy · Russian Provisional Government state institutions 1873–1938
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak Александр Васильевич Колчак From the Arctic to the execution wall: Imperial Russia's last armed defender turned Supreme Ruler Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1874–1920
Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs Михаил Константинович Дитерихс Kolchak's chief of staff, Romanov murder investigator, and last ruler of White Priamurye Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1874–1937
Pyotr Ioakimovich Palchinsky Пётр Иоакимович Пальчинский The Provisional Government's last technocrat who directed the defense of the Winter Palace Science and technology 1875–1929
Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov Александр Иванович Коновалов The capitalist who gave his workers a nine-hour day and built the Progressive Bloc to challenge the autocracy Industry and production · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1875–1949
Boris Aleksandrovich Engelhardt Борис Александрович Энгельгардт Headed the Duma Military Commission whose order sending the garrison back to barracks triggered Order No. 1 Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1877–1962
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel Пётр Николаевич Врангель The "Black Baron": handed a lost war, he tried to break through with reforms as the White Army's last commander-in-chief Military command · Russian White movement 1878–1928

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