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Adolph Joffe
Adolph Abramovich Joffe was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent.
Adolph Abramovich Joffe was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent.
Aleksandr Stepanovich Antonov
Aleksandr Stepanovich Antonov was a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Aleksandr Stepanovich Antonov was a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity.
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity.
Alexander Kerensky
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
Alexander Martinov
Alexander Martinov (1865 – 1935) was a Menshevik before the Russian revolutions of 1917, and for a few years after the revolution an opponent of the Soviet government.
Alexander Martinov (1865 – 1935) was a Menshevik before the Russian revolutions of 1917, and for a few years after the revolution an opponent of the Soviet government.
Alexander Parvus
Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand, was a Marxist theoretician, a Russian revolutionary, and a controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand, was a Marxist theoretician, a Russian revolutionary, and a controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Alexander Potresov
Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov was a Russian social democrat and one of the leaders of Menshevism.
Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov was a Russian social democrat and one of the leaders of Menshevism.
Alexander Tarasov
Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov is a Soviet and Russian left-wing sociologist, politologist, culturologist, publicist, writer and philosopher.
Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov is a Soviet and Russian left-wing sociologist, politologist, culturologist, publicist, writer and philosopher.
Alexey Peshekhonov
Alexey Vasilyevich Peshekhonov (Алексей Васильевич Пешехонов) (February 2, 1867 (January 21 old style) – April 3, 1933) was a Russian economist, publicist, and statistician.
Alexey Vasilyevich Peshekhonov (Алексей Васильевич Пешехонов) (February 2, 1867 (January 21 old style) – April 3, 1933) was a Russian economist, publicist, and statistician.
Anne Jaclard
Note: This article deals with the Russian-born nineteenth-century revolutionary, not with the American Marxist-Humanist theoretician Anne Jaclard.
Note: This article deals with the Russian-born nineteenth-century revolutionary, not with the American Marxist-Humanist theoretician Anne Jaclard.
Arkady Rosengolts
Arkady Pavlovich Rosengolts (1889-1938), sometimes spelled 'Rosengoltz' or 'Rosenholz', was a Bolshevik politician, a Soviet Commissar of Foreign Trade and a defendant at the Moscow Trial of the...
Arkady Pavlovich Rosengolts (1889-1938), sometimes spelled 'Rosengoltz' or 'Rosenholz', was a Bolshevik politician, a Soviet Commissar of Foreign Trade and a defendant at the Moscow Trial of the...
Avram Gots
Avram Rafailovich Gots (1882, Moscow - 1940?) was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary leader, active in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
Avram Rafailovich Gots (1882, Moscow - 1940?) was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary leader, active in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia.
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia.
Boris Kamkov
Boris Kamkov (1885-1938) was a Russian revolutionary, a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and a member of the Council of People's Commissars.
Boris Kamkov (1885-1938) was a Russian revolutionary, a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and a member of the Council of People's Commissars.
Boris Souvarine
Boris Souvarine (born Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz and also known as Varine; 1895–1984) was an Imperial Russian-born French socialist, communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
Boris Souvarine (born Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz and also known as Varine; 1895–1984) was an Imperial Russian-born French socialist, communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
Elisabeth Dmitrieff
Elisabeth Dmitrieff was a Russian-born feminist and actress of the 1871 Paris Commune.
Elisabeth Dmitrieff was a Russian-born feminist and actress of the 1871 Paris Commune.
Feliks Volkhovsky
Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer.
Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was a Soviet state and Communist Party leader, and a prominent member of Polish and Russian revolutionary movements.
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was a Soviet state and Communist Party leader, and a prominent member of Polish and Russian revolutionary movements.
Fyodor Dan
Fyodor Ilyich Dan (Фёдор Ильич Дан) (October 19, 1871, Saint Petersburg – January 22, 1947, New York) was one of the leaders of Menshevism.
Fyodor Ilyich Dan (Фёдор Ильич Дан) (October 19, 1871, Saint Petersburg – January 22, 1947, New York) was one of the leaders of Menshevism.
Gennady Semigin
Gennady Yuryevich Semigin (Геннадий Юрьевич Семигин, born March 23, 1961) is a Russian politician, the leader of socialist Patriots of Russia party.
Gennady Yuryevich Semigin (Геннадий Юрьевич Семигин, born March 23, 1961) is a Russian politician, the leader of socialist Patriots of Russia party.
German Lopatin
German Lopatin (born 13 January 1845, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; died 26 December 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer.
German Lopatin (born 13 January 1845, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; died 26 December 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer.
Grigory Gershuni
Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev (Григо́рий Евсе́евич Зино́вьев, ; - August 25, 1936), born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum (Радомысльский), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a ...
Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev (Григо́рий Евсе́евич Зино́вьев, ; - August 25, 1936), born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum (Радомысльский), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a ...
Henryk Ehrlich
Henryk Ehrlich (sometimes spelled Henryk Erlich; 1882 – 15 May 1942) was an activist of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Jewish Bund and Menshevik factions), member of the Petrogr...
Henryk Ehrlich (sometimes spelled Henryk Erlich; 1882 – 15 May 1942) was an activist of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Jewish Bund and Menshevik factions), member of the Petrogr...
Ilya Fondaminsky
Ilya Isidorovich Fondaminsky (Илья′ Исидо′рович Фондами′нский, 1880, Moscow, Russia — November 19, 1942, Auschwitz, Nazi Germany) was a Jewish Russian author (writing under the pseudonym B...
Ilya Isidorovich Fondaminsky (Илья′ Исидо′рович Фондами′нский, 1880, Moscow, Russia — November 19, 1942, Auschwitz, Nazi Germany) was a Jewish Russian author (writing under the pseudonym B...
Ilya Rubanovich
Ilya Rubanovich was a Russian revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s.
Ilya Rubanovich was a Russian revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s.
Isaac Steinberg
Isaac Nachman Steinberg (Исаак Нахман Штейнберг, 13 July 1888 – 2 January 1957) was a lawyer, revolutionary, politician, a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in Soviet Russi...
Isaac Nachman Steinberg (Исаак Нахман Штейнберг, 13 July 1888 – 2 January 1957) was a lawyer, revolutionary, politician, a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in Soviet Russi...
Karl Radek
Karl Bernhardovic Radek (Карл Бернга́рдович Ра́дек) (31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Commun...
Karl Bernhardovic Radek (Карл Бернга́рдович Ра́дек) (31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Commun...
Leo Deutsch
Lev Grigorievich Deutsch, also known as Leo Deutsch (Лев Григорьевич Дейч) (1855, Tulchyn – 1941) was a Russian revolutionary who was an early member of the Russian Social Democratic Labou...
Lev Grigorievich Deutsch, also known as Leo Deutsch (Лев Григорьевич Дейч) (1855, Tulchyn – 1941) was a Russian revolutionary who was an early member of the Russian Social Democratic Labou...
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
Lev Kamenev
Lev Borisovich Kamenev, born Rozenfeld, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.
Lev Borisovich Kamenev, born Rozenfeld, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.
Mark Natanson
Mark Andreyevich Natanson (Марк Андреевич Натансон; alias - Бобров, or Bobrov) (December 25, 1850 (N.S. January 6, 1851), Švenčionys - July 29, 1919, Berne) was a Russian revolutionary and o...
Mark Andreyevich Natanson (Марк Андреевич Натансон; alias - Бобров, or Bobrov) (December 25, 1850 (N.S. January 6, 1851), Švenčionys - July 29, 1919, Berne) was a Russian revolutionary and o...
Mark Rein (journalist)
Mark Rafailovich Rein (1909-1937?) was a socialist journalist.
Mark Rafailovich Rein (1909-1937?) was a socialist journalist.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov (Михаил Александрович Чернов; 20 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik politician who was executed during the Great Purge.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov (Михаил Александрович Чернов; 20 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik politician who was executed during the Great Purge.
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; – 1 July 1876) was a well-known Russian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; – 1 July 1876) was a well-known Russian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the l...
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the l...
Mikhail Liber
Mikhail Isaakovich Liber (b. May 24/June 5, 1880, d. October 4, 1937).
Mikhail Isaakovich Liber (b. May 24/June 5, 1880, d. October 4, 1937).
Mikhail Pokrovsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky was a Bolshevik Russian historian.
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky was a Bolshevik Russian historian.
Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev
Mirsäyet Xäydärğäli ulı Soltanğäliev (1892–1940), usually known in English as Mirza Sultan-Galiev, was a Tatar Bolshevik who rose to prominence in the Russian Communist Party in the early ...
Mirsäyet Xäydärğäli ulı Soltanğäliev (1892–1940), usually known in English as Mirza Sultan-Galiev, was a Tatar Bolshevik who rose to prominence in the Russian Communist Party in the early ...
Moshe Levin
Moshe Levin (1897–1943), alias 'Batlan' and 'Elisha', was a Jewish socialist.
Moshe Levin (1897–1943), alias 'Batlan' and 'Elisha', was a Jewish socialist.
Nikolai Annensky
Nikolai Feodorovich Annensky (1843-1912) was a Russian economist, statistician and politician.
Nikolai Feodorovich Annensky (1843-1912) was a Russian economist, statistician and politician.
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (Никола́й Гаври́лович Черныше́вский) (July 12, 1828 – October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialis...
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (Никола́й Гаври́лович Черныше́вский) (July 12, 1828 – October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialis...
Nikolai Danielson
Nikolai Frantsevich Danielson (Никола́й Фра́нцевич Дание́льсон; also known as N-on, Nik-on, Nikolai-on; February 7, 1844, MoscowJuly 13, 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian economist and sociologist.
Nikolai Frantsevich Danielson (Никола́й Фра́нцевич Дание́льсон; also known as N-on, Nik-on, Nikolai-on; February 7, 1844, MoscowJuly 13, 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian economist and sociologist.
Nikolai Rusanov
Nikolai Rusanov (Pseudonyms: K. Tarasov, N. Kudrin., September 16 (28), 1859, Oryol — July 28, 1939, Berne) was a Russian revolutionary who connected the revolutionary populist movement of the 1...
Nikolai Rusanov (Pseudonyms: K. Tarasov, N. Kudrin., September 16 (28), 1859, Oryol — July 28, 1939, Berne) was a Russian revolutionary who connected the revolutionary populist movement of the 1...
Nikolai Valentinov
Nikolai Valentinov was a Russian socialist, journalist, philosopher and economist, a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party.
Nikolai Valentinov was a Russian socialist, journalist, philosopher and economist, a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party.
Nikolai Ziber
Nikolai Ivanovich Ziber (1844–1888) was a Russian academic economist and one of the first advocates of Marxism in Russia.
Nikolai Ivanovich Ziber (1844–1888) was a Russian academic economist and one of the first advocates of Marxism in Russia.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist.
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist.
Nikolay Rusanov
Nikolay Sergeyevich Rusanov, also known under the pseudonyms of K. Tarasov and N. Kudrin, was a Russian revolutionary who connected the revolutionary populist movement of the 1870s with the revo...
Nikolay Sergeyevich Rusanov, also known under the pseudonyms of K. Tarasov and N. Kudrin, was a Russian revolutionary who connected the revolutionary populist movement of the 1870s with the revo...
Osip Minor
Osip Solomonovich Minor (1861-1932) was a Russian revolutionary and member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Osip Solomonovich Minor (1861-1932) was a Russian revolutionary and member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Pati Kremer
Pati Kremer was a Russian socialist and pioneer of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia.
Pati Kremer was a Russian socialist and pioneer of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia.
Pavel Axelrod
Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (Па́вел Бори́сович Аксельро́д August 25, 1850 – April 16, 1928) was a Russian Menshevik.
Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (Па́вел Бори́сович Аксельро́д August 25, 1850 – April 16, 1928) was a Russian Menshevik.
Raphael Abramovitch
Raphael Rein Abramovitch (1880-1963) was a Russian socialist, a member of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund) and a leader of the Menshevik wing of the Russi...
Raphael Rein Abramovitch (1880-1963) was a Russian socialist, a member of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund) and a leader of the Menshevik wing of the Russi...
Sergei Prokopovich
Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich (Сергей Николаевич Прокопович; 1871–1955) was a Russian economist, sociologist, 'Revisionist' Social-Democrat and liberal politician.
Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich (Сергей Николаевич Прокопович; 1871–1955) was a Russian economist, sociologist, 'Revisionist' Social-Democrat and liberal politician.
Steponas Kairys
Steponas Kairys (; December 20, 1878 Old Style/January 3, 1879 New Style in Užnevėžiai, near Ukmergė – December 16, 1964 in Brooklyn) was a Lithuanian engineer, nationalist, and social democrat.
Steponas Kairys (; December 20, 1878 Old Style/January 3, 1879 New Style in Užnevėžiai, near Ukmergė – December 16, 1964 in Brooklyn) was a Lithuanian engineer, nationalist, and social democrat.
Sultan Galiev
Mirsäyet Xäydärğäli ulı Soltanğäliev (1892–1940), usually known in English as Mirza Sultan-Galiev, was a Tatar Bolshevik who rose to prominence in the Russian Communist Party in the early ...
Mirsäyet Xäydärğäli ulı Soltanğäliev (1892–1940), usually known in English as Mirza Sultan-Galiev, was a Tatar Bolshevik who rose to prominence in the Russian Communist Party in the early ...
Vadim Rudnev
Vadim Viktorovich Rudnev (Вадим Викторович Руднев) (1874 – November 19, 1940) was a Russian politician and editor.
Vadim Viktorovich Rudnev (Вадим Викторович Руднев) (1874 – November 19, 1940) was a Russian politician and editor.
Varlam Shalamov
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
Vasily Vorontsov
Vasilii Pavlovich Vorontsov was an influential Russian narodnik economist and sociologist, one of the principal protagonists in the controversy between narodnik and Marxist economists in...
Vasilii Pavlovich Vorontsov was an influential Russian narodnik economist and sociologist, one of the principal protagonists in the controversy between narodnik and Marxist economists in...
Vera Figner
Vera Nikolayevna Figner (Filippova) (Вера Николаевна Фигнер (Филиппова)) (6.25(7.7).1852 – 6.15.6.1942) was a Russian revolutionary and narodnik born June 25, 1852 in Kazan, Russia.
Vera Nikolayevna Figner (Filippova) (Вера Николаевна Фигнер (Филиппова)) (6.25(7.7).1852 – 6.15.6.1942) was a Russian revolutionary and narodnik born June 25, 1852 in Kazan, Russia.
Victor Kravchenko (defector)
Victor Andreevich Kravchenko was a Soviet defector who wrote of his life in the Soviet Union as a Soviet official in his book I Chose Freedom published in 1946.
Victor Andreevich Kravchenko was a Soviet defector who wrote of his life in the Soviet Union as a Soviet official in his book I Chose Freedom published in 1946.
Vladimir Medem
Vladimir Davidovich Medem, né Grinberg (Владимир Давидович Медем), (1879, Liepāja, Russian Empire, – 1923, New York City), was a Russian Jewish politician and ideologue of the Jewish L...
Vladimir Davidovich Medem, né Grinberg (Владимир Давидович Медем), (1879, Liepāja, Russian Empire, – 1923, New York City), was a Russian Jewish politician and ideologue of the Jewish L...
Vladimir Posse
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Posse (Владимир Александрович Поссе) (May 10, 1864 - Oct.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Posse (Владимир Александрович Поссе) (May 10, 1864 - Oct.
Vladimir Zenzinov
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov (Владимир Михайлович Зензинов; historically, his surname was also transcribed as Sensinoff: 29 November 1880 - 20 October 1953) was a member of Russia's Soci...
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov (Владимир Михайлович Зензинов; historically, his surname was also transcribed as Sensinoff: 29 November 1880 - 20 October 1953) was a member of Russia's Soci...
Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" — 16 March 1919 was a Bolshevik party leader and president of the Russian Soviet Republic.
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" — 16 March 1919 was a Bolshevik party leader and president of the Russian Soviet Republic.
Yekaterina Kuskova
Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova was a Russian economist, journalist and politician involved in founding both the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and the liberal Constitutional Democratic...
Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova was a Russian economist, journalist and politician involved in founding both the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and the liberal Constitutional Democratic...
Yevno Azef
Yevno Azef (Евгений Филиппович (Евно Фишелевич) Азеф, 1869–1918, also transliterated as Evno Azef), was a Russian socialist revolutionary who was also a double agent working both as an organ...
Yevno Azef (Евгений Филиппович (Евно Фишелевич) Азеф, 1869–1918, also transliterated as Evno Azef), was a Russian socialist revolutionary who was also a double agent working both as an organ...
Zamfir Arbore
Zamfir Constantin Arbore was a Bukovinan-born Romanian political activist originally active in the Russian Empire, also known for his work as an amateur historian, geographer and ethnographer.
Zamfir Constantin Arbore was a Bukovinan-born Romanian political activist originally active in the Russian Empire, also known for his work as an amateur historian, geographer and ethnographer.