Julius Martov

Julius Martov

male, deceased (1923)
Menshevik, iskra, middle class, turkish, Jewish person, revolutionary…Russian, Social democrat, RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty
Julius Martov or L. Martov ("Ма́ртов", real name Yuli Osipovich Zederbaum was born in Istanbul in 1873. The son of Jewish middle class parents...
Inessa Armand

Inessa Armand

female, deceased (1920)
Russian of French descent, Mezen, Old Bolshevik, Siberia, From Paris, From Moscow…RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty, Social Democratic Labour Party
Inessa Armand was a French-born Communist who spent most of her life in Russia. She was rumored to have had an affair with Vladimir Lenin. She was...
Georgi Plekhanov

Georgi Plekhanov

male, deceased (1918)
revolutionary, World War I, Marxist, nom de guerre, Russian, lenin…RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (December 11, 1856 - May 30, 1918; "Old Style:" November 29 1856 - May 17 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a...
Karl Radek

Karl Radek

male, deceased (1939)
Old Bolshevik, Austro-Hungary, Central Committee, polish, bolshevik, German communist…Communist Party of Germany, Russian Revolution of 1905, RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty
Karl Berngardovich Radek was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader. He was born in then Lemberg (now L'viv in Ukraine, then in...
Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Sverdlov

male, deceased (1919)
Old Bolshevik, Old Bolsheviks, tsar nicholas ii, petrograd, Soviet politician, Russian…Russian Revolution of 1905, RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty, Russian SFSR, Russian Constituent Assembly
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, born Yankel Movshevich Eiman ; known under pseudonyms "Andrey", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" (March 16...
Christian Rakovsky

Christian Rakovsky

male, deceased (1941)
Russian, Romanian Social Democratic Party, Bulgarian Social Democratic Union, Romanian-Russians, World War I, Russian of Bulgarian descent…RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty, Member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party
Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist,...
Fedor Dan

Fedor Dan

male, deceased (1949)
Menshevik, Russian Provisional Government, 1917, provisional government, lenin, st petersburg, Jewish…RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty
Fedor Il'ich Dan was born to a Jewish family in St Petersburg. His original surname was Gurvitch. While still a young man he joined the Union of...
Moisei Uritsky

Moisei Uritsky

male, deceased (1918)
Russian, bolshevik, petrograd, Soviet politician, ukrainian, Jewish person…Russian Revolution of 1905, RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. He was born in the town of Cherkasy, Ukraine, to a Jewish family. His...
Noe Zhordania

Noe Zhordania

male, deceased (1953)
journalist, Soviet Russian, government-in-exile, Russian SFSR, social democratic, Social democracy…RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty, Democratic Republic of Georgia, Georgian Social Democratic (Menshevik) Party
Noe Zhordania (also transliterated as Jordania was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the Social...
Mikhail Tomsky

Mikhail Tomsky

male, deceased (1936)
Old Bolshevik, General Secretary, suicide by firearm, Siberia, socialist, provisional government…Red International of Labour Unions, RussianSocialDemocraticLabourParty, Russian Provisional Government, 1917, Russian Empire, All Russian Central Council of Trade Unions
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (born Efremov, sometimes transliterated as Yefremov, October 31 1880 – August 22, 1936) was a factory worker, trade un...