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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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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
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Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева
The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1941
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Grigory Alexandrovich Feldman Григорий Александрович Фельдман
The Gosplan mathematical economist who first formalized the capital-goods-led growth model
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1958
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Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский
Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1884–1965
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Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский
From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1884–1975
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Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев
A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–?
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Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов
The organizer who linked party and state after October
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1919
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Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyaev Виктор Николаевич Пепеляев
The Kadet politician who engineered Kolchak's dictatorship and stood with him to the end
Government and administration · Russian White movement
1885–1920
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Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский
First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1885–1925
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Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov Яков Александрович Слащёв
White general who held the Perekop gateway
Military command · Russian White movement
1885–1929
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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
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Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев
The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1937
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Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев
The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1885–1938
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко
Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1885–1938
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Aron Lvovich Sheinman Арон Львович Шейнман
Architect of the chervonets who tamed NEP inflation, then broke with Stalin as the first high-ranking Soviet financial defector
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1885–1944
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Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков
From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1949
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Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин
Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built
Literature and arts
1885–1953
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Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко
The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order
Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1885–1960
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Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky Владимир Савельевич Войтинский
A social democrat who changed course between revolution and economics
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1960
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov Николай Степанович Гумилёв
Silver Age poet who founded Acmeism and fell to the Cheka's guns
Literature and arts
1886–1921
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Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг
The White Army warlord who liberated Mongolia and dreamed of reviving the empire of Genghis Khan
Military command · Russian White movement
1886–1921
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Sergei Mironovich Kirov Сергей Миронович Киров
The Leningrad organizer whose murder became the pretext for the Great Terror
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1934
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов
The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский
The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1937
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Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий
The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1886–1938
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Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн
Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1886–1938
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Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев
Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore
Military command · Soviet Union
1887–1919
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Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий
Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1924
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Friedrich Arturovich Zander Фридрих Артурович Цандер
Mars-dreaming GIRD co-founder and designer of the Soviet Union's first liquid-fueled rocket
Science and technology
1887–1933
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Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев
A Red Army commander shaped by the air war
Military command · Soviet Union
1887–1934
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Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков
A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1936
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Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев
First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land
Agriculture and land policy · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1937
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Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов
First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery
Industry and production · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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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
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов
From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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Pyotr Kirillovich Koganovich Пётр Кириллович Коганович
The Siberian food chief whose name is one letter away from a Politburo member
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1938
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Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский
First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1938
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev Павел Петрович Постышев
Stalin's famine envoy and terror executor called the 'hangman of Ukraine', executed in 1939
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1939
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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov Николай Иванович Вавилов
The geneticist who built the world's largest seed bank and stood against Lysenko
Science and technology · Soviet Union
1887–1943
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Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев
A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1887–1949
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Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger Яков Гиляриевич Этингер
Kremlin cardiologist who became the first victim of Stalin's Doctors' Plot
Science and technology
1887–1951
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Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская
Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile
Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1960
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Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман
Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1961
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Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков
Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1888–1927
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Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев
Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1935
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Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский
The Red commander of the Urals
Military command · Soviet Union
1888–1936
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Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов
The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков
First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов
Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality
Law and justice · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович
Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937