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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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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
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Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова
Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1921
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Vasily Nikolayevich Kayurov Василий Николаевич Каюров
Vyborg Bolshevik organizer who turned the Women's Day protest into the February Revolution
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1936
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Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский
The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union
1876–1937
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Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин
The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October'
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union
1876–1941
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Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko Николай Нилович Бурденко
Founder of Soviet neurosurgery and Chief Surgeon of the Red Army
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1876–1946
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Ivan Platonovich Kalyaev Иван Платонович Каляев
The poet-bomber who stayed his hand seeing the Grand Duchess and children: the 'ethical terrorist' behind Camus' Les Justes
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1877–1905
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Georgy Stepanovich Khrustalev-Nosar Георгий Степанович Носарь
A non-party workers' lawyer elected the first chairman of the Petersburg Soviet in 1905
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1877–1919
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Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе
Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1877–1937
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Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов
The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum
Military command · Soviet Union
1877–1937
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Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов
The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1877–1938
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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
1877–1962
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Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин
The economist who designed socialism in numbers
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1877–1974
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov Михаил Александрович Романов
The last Romanov who could have been tsar, and who deferred the crown to a Constituent Assembly
Military command · Russian Empire
1878–1918
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Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин
First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square
Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1878–1924
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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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Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова
Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1878–1937
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Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин
“The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1938
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Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин
'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов
The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский
The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1878–1938
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров
Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1878–1941
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Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский
The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest'
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1943
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Nikolai Dmitriyevich Avksentiev Николай Дмитриевич Авксентьев
SR Party founder who chaired the last unified anti-Bolshevik government, overthrown by Kolchak
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1878–1943
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Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский
IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1945
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Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский
The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1878–1952
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Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова
The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor
Political and party leadership · Comintern
1878–1965
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Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin Василий Витальевич Шульгин
The Duma monarchist who took the tsar's abdication and became an ideologue of the White movement
Political and party leadership · Russian Empire
1878–1976
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Alexander Ilyich Dutov Александр Ильич Дутов
Orenburg Cossack ataman who severed Soviet Russia from Turkestan, opening a front between the Volga and the Urals
Military command · Russian White movement
1879–1921
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Boris Savinkov Борис Савинков
Terrorist, Counter-Revolutionary: the Black Horse of the Revolution
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1879–1925
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Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий
The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe
Military command · Soviet Union
1879–1940
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Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой
Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1879–1947
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Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский
A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1879–1967
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Semyon Aronovich Klivansky Семён Аронович Кливанский
Menshevik Bundist intellectual who drafted the core of Order No. 1 among the soldiers
Social movements and organizing · General Jewish Labour Bund
1879 – 1944 이후
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Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв
Tsarist officer turned Red commander who took Kyiv, battled in Bessarabia, and rebelled against Brest-Litovsk
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1918
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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Александр Александрович Блок
Russia's foremost Symbolist poet who embraced the October Revolution
Literature and arts
1880–1921
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Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский
Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1880–1936
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Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov Александр Михайлович Краснощёков
The pragmatic Bolshevik who designed and led the Far Eastern Republic
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1880–1937
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Mikhail Isaakovich Liber Михаил Исаакович Либер
A Menshevik who defended the revolution against its Bolshevik direction
Political and party leadership · General Jewish Labour Bund
1880–1937
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Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев
The Soviet Union's greatest fortification scientist, who chose martyrdom at Mauthausen over collaboration with the Nazis
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1945
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Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov Василий Алексеевич Дегтярёв
Founder of Soviet firearms design, creator of the DP-27, DShK, and PTRD
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1880–1949
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov Владимир Михайлович Зензинов
A Socialist Revolutionary who defended democratic socialism through exile and testimony
Literature and arts · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1880–1953
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Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe Абрам Фёдорович Иоффе
The 'Papa Ioffe' who reared all of Soviet physics
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1880–1960
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Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский
Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1880–1965
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Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер
First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1880–1966
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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов
Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1969
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Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов
The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1881–1936
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Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев
Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1936
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Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков
Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
Government and administration · Soviet Union
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