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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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Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский
Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1881–1948
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Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов
Stalin’s marshal, sustained by loyalty more than command
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1969
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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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Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotieva Лидия Александровна Фотиева
Lenin's personal secretary and conduit of his final political struggle
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1881–1975
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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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Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин
Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1882–1920
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Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин
An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1882–1932
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Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский
Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock
Religion · Russian Orthodox Church
1882–1937
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Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов
Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1882–1938
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Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев
From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1882–1939
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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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Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов
Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising
Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1882–1940
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Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov Борис Михайлович Шапошников
The only officer Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, author of The Brain of the Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1882–1945
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум
Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed
Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists)
1882–1945
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Alexander Moiseyevich Schapiro Александр Моисеевич Шапиро
The behind-the-scenes organizer who wove international anarcho-syndicalism from Amsterdam 1907 to the IWMA
Social movements and organizing
1882–1946
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Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц
From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1952
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Boris Dmitriyevich Grekov Борис Дмитриевич Греков
Founder of Soviet medieval studies; established the feudal interpretation of Kievan Rus
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1882–1953
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Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский
From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1955
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Nikolai Pavlovich Shmit Николай Павлович Шмит
The young furniture-factory heir whose plant became the heart of the Presnya uprising
Industry and production · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1883–1907
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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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Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel Владимир Оскарович Каппель
The White movement's greatest 'soldier-general': conqueror of Kazan who vanished into the ice
Military command · Russian White movement
1883–1920
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1883–1921
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Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе
Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1883–1927
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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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Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин
The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас
The security viceroy of the Far East
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Александр Ильич Егоров
The Southern Front commander who broke Denikin: the last of the first five marshals whose name was erased
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1939
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Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер
Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1883–1940
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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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Alexei N. Nikolaevich Tolstoy Алексей Николаевич Толстой
The Red Count: from émigré to pillar of Stalinist letters
Literature and arts
1883–1945
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov Александр Васильевич Александров
From choirboy to Soviet anthem composer, founder of the Red Army Choir
Literature and arts
1883–1946
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Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин
Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1883–1947
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Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev Алексей Егорович Бадаев
Official publisher of Pravda who rose from Duma deputy to nominal head of the Russian republic
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1883–1951
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Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin Иван Александрович Ильин
Hegelian legal philosopher who deemed October a 'national catastrophe' and became a White émigré ideologue
Law and justice
1883–1954
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Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов
The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1883–1954
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Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков
Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1883–1958
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Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин
Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk
Science and technology
1883–1960
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Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель
From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1883–1960
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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый
The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1973
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Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов
The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1884–1926
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Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин
Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1927
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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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Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов
Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1936
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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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Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин
First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1937
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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин
The architect of a forbidden future
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1937
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Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский
The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1884–1938
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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