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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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Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinsky Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский
He killed the tsar's gendarme chief with a dagger, then introduced the Russian revolution to the West with his pen
Literature and arts
1851–1895
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Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko Михаил Владимирович Родзянко
The parliamentarian the Tsar called 'fat-bellied': last chairman of the Imperial Duma
Political and party leadership · Union of 17 October (Octobrists)
1859–1924
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Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский
From Legal Marxism to ethical socialism: the economist who pioneered business cycle theory
Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
1865–1919
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Mykhailo Hrushevsky Михайло Грушевський
Historian who wrote Ukraine as a distinct historical subject, and chairman of the Central Rada
Scholarship and theory
1866–1934
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Alexander Grigorievich Shlikhter Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер
Bolshevik agrarian policymaker: first Agriculture Commissar, later VP of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1868–1940
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Georgy Apollonovich Gapon Георгий Аполлонович Гапон
The priest who led the march, and ended a double agent
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1870–1906
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Alexander Dmitrievich Tsyurupa Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа
The Civil War food administrator who designed the grain dictatorship
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1870–1928
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Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник
Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1872–1933
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Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi Павло Петрович Скоропадський
The last hetman of Ukraine, installed under German occupation in 1918
Government and administration · Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)
1873–1945
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Avgustyn Voloshyn Августин Волошин
Greek Catholic priest who became president of Carpatho-Ukraine when it declared independence in March 1939
Government and administration · Czechoslovakia
1874–1945
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Boris Mikhailovich Eltsin Борис Михайлович Эльцин
A physician of the Left Opposition who shares a name with the first president of Russia
Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1876–1937
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Grigory Nikitich Vakulinchuk Григорий Никитич Вакуленчук
The Tsentralka sailor whose killing ignited the Potemkin mutiny; his Odessa funeral became a mass revolutionary demonstration
Social movements and organizing
1877–1905
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Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский
Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1878–1958
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Afanasi Nikolayevich Matushenko Афанасий Николаевич Матюшенко
The torpedo quartermaster who headed the Potemkin mutiny, then was hanged in Sevastopol in 1907
Social movements and organizing
1879–1907
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Symon Vasyliovych Petliura Симон Васильович Петлюра
Ukrainian independence leader who headed the People's Republic but whose role in pogroms remains fiercely contested
Military command · Ukrainian People's Republic
1879–1926
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Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий
Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1879–1937
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Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский
The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1948
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко
Ukrainian Social Democratic writer who led the Rada's General Secretariat and the Directory
Government and administration · Ukrainian People's Republic
1880–1951
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев
He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко
He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский
ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943)
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1959
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Yefim Afanasievich Shchadenko Ефим Афанасьевич Щаденко
From 1st Cavalry Army commissar to the purge's personnel executioner
Military command · Soviet Union
1885–1951
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Alexander Yakovlevich Parkhomenko Александр Яковлевич Пархоменко
Civil War commander who helped defend Tsaritsyn and establish Soviet power in Ukraine
Military command · Soviet Union
1886–1921
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Sydir Artemovych Kovpak Сидор Артемьевич Ковпак
The Soviet Union's greatest partisan commander, who raided all the way to the Carpathians
Military command · Soviet Union
1887–1967
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Nestor Ivanovich Makhno Нестор Иванович Махно
The anarchist peasant commander who fought Bolsheviks, Whites, Germans, and nationalists in succession
Military command · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists)
1888–1934
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Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский
Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1888–1938
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Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha Иван Павлович Товстуха
Stalin's first secretary, keeper of his archive and author of his first biography
Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1889–1935
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Pavel Yefimovich Dybenko Павел Ефимович Дыбенко
The first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, whose Baltic sailors tipped the scales in October 1917
Military command · Soviet Union
1889–1938
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Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков
The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine
1890–1937
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Grigory Fedorovich Grinko Григорий Фёдорович Гринько
From Ukrainian Borotbist to People's Commissar of Finance: the man who funded the Five-Year Plans
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1890–1938
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Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский
Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism'
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1890–1946
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Grigory Ivanovich Kulik Григорий Иванович Кулик
Stalin's artillery chief from Tsaritsyn: Marshal who blocked the T-34, KV-1 and Katyusha
Military command · Soviet Union
1890–1950
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Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets Євген Михайлович Коновалець
Ukrainian nationalist leader who commanded the Sich Riflemen and built the UVO and OUN
Military command · Ukrainian People's Republic
1891–1938
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Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar Влас Яковлевич Чубарь
The economic administrator who led Ukraine's government for 11 years, caught between Stalin's demands and the famine
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1891–1939
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Vsevolod Apollonovich Balitsky Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий
The master of the Ukrainian security apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1892–1937
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Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos Михаил Петрович Кирпонос
Southwestern Front commander who fell in the Kiev encirclement
Military command · Soviet Union
1892–1941
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Andrei Ivanovich Yeryomenko Андрей Иванович Ерёменко
The cavalryman who closed Stalingrad's southern pincer
Military command · Soviet Union
1892–1970
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Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий
Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1893–1933
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Nikolai Iosifovich Antonov-Gritsyuk Николай Иосифович Антонов-Грицюк
Chekist who went from chairing the Kabardino-Balkar troika to heading the NKVD prison department
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1893–1939
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Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko Павел Семёнович Рыбалко
Twice Hero who drove the 3rd Guards Tank Army from Stalingrad to Prague
Military command · Soviet Union
1894–1948
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Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко
Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage
Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1894–1956
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Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko Демьян Сергеевич Коротченко
Khrushchev's loyal executor: a peasant-born apparatchik who twice led Soviet Ukraine's government
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1894–1969
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Vladimir Yefimovich Tsesarsky Владимир Ефимович Цесарский
Yezhov’s confidant who kept the Great Terror’s ledgers
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1895–1940
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Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko Семён Константинович Тимошенко
Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence 1940-1941
Military command · Soviet Union
1895–1970
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Vitaly Markovich Primakov Виталий Маркович Примаков
Commander of the Red Cossacks and the Soviet 'Red Lawrence' who led the covert 1929 intervention in Afghanistan
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Gikalo Николай Фёдорович Гикало
Civil War hero who commanded the Grozny defence, then drove industrialization and collectivization as First Secretary of three republics
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1938
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Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko Иван Фёдорович Федько
Four-time Red Banner hero of the Civil War, rose to First Deputy Defence Commissar: purged by the machine he served
Military command · Soviet Union
1897–1939
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Nikolai Galaktionovich Nikolayev-Zhurid Николай Галактионович Николаев-Журид
Yezhov's counterintelligence chief who ran the army purge and the national operations
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1897–1940
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Pyotr Fyodorovich Bulakh Пётр Фёдорович Булах
The Ordzhonikidze NKVD chief who opened fire ahead of schedule
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1898–1938
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Grigory Fyodorovich Gorbach Григорий Фёдорович Горбач
The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who carried quota increases from Omsk to Khabarovsk
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1898–1939