- Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman aka 'Red Emma', was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. - John Reed
John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 - October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, "Ten Days that Shook the World". He was the husband of the writer and feminist Louise Bryant. Reed and Bryant were the subjects of the film "Reds" (1981), directed by Warren Beatty. - Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (March 15, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and intellectual, and later a Soviet politician. - Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (– December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. As a young man he enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. - James P. Cannon
James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. Cannon was the founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party. Born in Rosedale, Kansas, James P. Cannon was first a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and then of the Socialist Party of America. He was personally trained by Bill Haywood, a prominent IWW leader. Cannon opposed World War I from an internationalist position and rallied to the Russian Revolution of 1917. - Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko, – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. - Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе, Romanian: "Mihail Frunză"; also known as Арсений Трифоныч - "Arseniy Trifonych"; - October 31, 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. - Louise Bryant
Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885 - January 6, 1936), American journalist and writer, was best known for her Marxist and Anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. Bryant published articles in several radical left journals during her life, including Alexander Berkman's "The Blast". Born Anna Louisa Mohan in Reno, Nevada, her parents divorced when she was three, and she grew up with her railway conductor stepfather, … - Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (June 12, 1937), was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925-1928), was one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. - Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician. Voroshilov was born in Verkhneye, near Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolshevik party in 1903. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian provisional government and Commissar for Internal Affairs. - Sergey Kirov
Sergei Mironovich Kirov (December 1, 1934) was a prominent early Bolshevik leader whose assassination sparked a terrible purge of the Soviet government. - Yakov Yurovsky
Yakov (Yankel) Mikhailovich Yurovsky (in Tomsk, Siberia, Russia - before 2 August 1938 in Moscow) is best known as the chief executioner of Russia's last emperor Tsar Nicholas and his family after the Russian Revolution of 1917. - Ahmad Shah Qajar
Ahmad Shah Qajar was Shah of Iran from July 16, 1909 to October 31, 1925. He was the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty. Ahmad acceded to the Peacock Throne on July 16, 1909 following the overthrow of his father and predecessor Mohammad Ali Shah, who had attempted to reverse earlier constitutional restrictions on royal power. He was, however, an ineffective ruler who was faced with internal unrest and foreign intrusions, particularly by the British and Russian Empires. - George Buchanan
Sir George William Buchanan, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was born in Copenhagen in 1854. He was the son of British Ambassador Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt. and would himself later become a diplomat. In 1908 he was appointed as minister in The Hague, The Netherlands. In 1910 Buchanan was appointed as the British Ambassador in Russia. He kept abreast of the political developments in Russia and met some of the leading liberal reformists in the country. - Pierre Gilliard
Pierre Gilliard (1879 - May 30, 1962), a Swiss citizen, was the French tutor for the five children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. Years after the Imperial Family was assassinated by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, Gilliard wrote a book "Thirteen Years at the Russian Court," about his time with the family. - Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks were Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don River, Russia. This population was formed in the second half of the sixteenth century, largely of runaway peasants. The Don Cossack Host, was a frontier military organisation since the end of the sixteenth century. Since 1786 the territory was officially called Don Voisko Lands, and was renamed Don Voisko Province in 1870 (presently shared by the Rostov, Volgograd, … - Semyon Budyonny
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (also spelled Budennii, Budenny, Budyenny etc, Russian: Семён Михайлович Будённый) (October 26, 1973) was a Soviet military commander and an ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Budyonny was born into a poor peasant family in the Terek Cossack region of southern Russia. He worked as a farm laborer until 1903, when he was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire, … - Semyon Timoshenko
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Russian: Семён Константинович Тимошенко, "Semën Konstantinovič Timošenko"; - March 31, 1970) was a Soviet military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. - Symon Petliura
Symon Petlura (("Simon Petljura"); in English, also occasionally spelled "Simon Petliura" or "Petlyura"; May 10, 1879 - May 25, 1926) was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's unsuccessful fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the Russian Civil War, he was briefly Head of the Ukrainian State. In 1926 Petlura was assassinated in Paris. - Vladimir Gardin
Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Moscow — 28 May, 1965, Leningrad) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema. He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: "Anna Karenina" (1914), "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1914), … - Erik Bulatov
Erik Bulatov is a Russian artist born in Sverdlovsk in 1933 and raised in Moscow. His father was a communist party official who died in World War II at Pskov, and his mother fled Poland at age 15 in support of the Russian Revolution. - Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (actual surname Ovseenko was a prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader and diplomat. Ethnically he was a Ukrainian, born in Chernihiv into an officer's family. In 1903, Antonov-Ovseenko joined the Menshevik party. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he led an uprising in Novo-Alexandria in Poland and Sevastopol in the Crimea. He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to twenty years' exile in Siberia. - Ivan Konev
Ivan Stepanovich Konev, was a Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, liberated much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin. Later, as the Commander of Warsaw Pact forces, Konev led the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Soviet armed divisions. - Herman Gorter
Herman Gorter (born Wormerveer, Netherlands, 1864) was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch poet and Socialist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s, centered around "De Nieuwe Gids" ("The New Guide"). Gorter's first book, a 4,000 verse epic poem called "Mei" ("May"), sealed his reputation as a great writer upon its publication in 1889, … - Vasily Chuikov
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, two times Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Born into a peasant family, he joined the Red Army during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and later attended the Frunze Military Academy. Chuikov served in the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in 1939 and in the Russo-Finnish War of 1940. - Metropolitan Sergius
Metropolitan Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan (1871-1945) was a Russian clergyman and monk of the Russian Orthodox Church and later Japanese Orthodox Church. - Amanullah Khan
King Amanullah Khan or simply Amanullah Khan (June 1, 1892 - April 25, 1960) was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. He led Afghanistan to independence over its foreign affairs from the United Kingdom, and his rule was marked by dramatic political and social change. Amanullah khan was the son of the King Habibullah Khan. When Habibullah was assassinated on February 20, 1919, … - Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaievna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaievna Romanova, (May 29 (O.S.)/June 10 (N.S.), 1897 - July 17, 1918), was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last autocratic ruler of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. She was better known than her three sisters and headed Red Cross committees during World War I. She nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital from 1914 to 1917, … - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, (November 3 (O.S.)/November 15 (N.S.) 1895 – July 17, 1918), was the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia. During her lifetime, Olga's future marriage was a matter of great speculation within Russia. Matches were rumored with Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, … - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (b. 1941) is a Japanese historian, currently working at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current field of research include the political history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Soviet-Japanese relations. He is also speaks English, Japanese, and Russian which help him give a different perspective when analyzing the Soviet-Japanese relations. - David R. Francis
David Rowland Francis (October 1, 1850 - January 15, 1927) was an American politician. He served in various positions including Mayor of Saint Louis, Governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia between 1916 and 1917, during the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was a Democrat. Francis was born in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1850. He graduated from Washington University in St. - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Maria Nikolaevna Romanova, (June 14 (O.S.)/June 26 (N.S.), 1899 – July 17, 1918) was the third daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Her murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. - Varvara Stepanova
Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova, was a Russian artist assocated with the 'Constructivist' movement. She came from peasant origins but was fortunate enough to get an education at Kazan School of Art, Odessa. There she met her life-long friend and collaborator Alexander Rodchenko. In the years before the Russian Revolution of 1917 they shared an apartment in Moscow with Wassily Kandinsky and through him met Aleksandra Ekster and Liubov Popova. - Joris van Severen
Georges Edmond Edouard Van Severen was a leading figure in the Flemish movement of pre-war Belgium. Born in Wakken into a French-speaking family he saw action in World War I, rising to the rank of Second Lieutenant before being demoted due to his involvement in Flemish nationalism within the Belgian Army. Van Severen was sympathetic to the Russian Revolution of 1917 but balanced this with a strong Catholicism, influenced by the French writer Léon Bloy. - Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich,, was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher. He was the father of Tibetologist George Roerich (a.k.a. Yuri Roerich) and artist Svetoslav Roerich. Nicholas and his wife Helena Roerich were co-founders of the theosophical Agni Yoga Society. Born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, Russia to the family of a well-to-do notary public, he lived around the world until his death in Punjab, India. - Marc Ferro
Marc Ferro is a French historian. He has worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia, the USSR as well as the history of cinema. He is Director of Studies in Social Sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. - Lili Dehn
Lili Dehn, or Lili von Dehn, born Yulia Smolskaia, (July 27 (O.S.)/August 9, 1888 (N.S.) - October 8, 1963), was the wife of a Russian naval officer and a friend to Tsarina Alexandra. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Dehn wrote a biography, "The Real Tsaritsa", to refute rumors that were circulating in Europe during the 1920s about the Tsarina and Grigori Rasputin. - Vasily Blyukher
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (also spelled Blücher, Blukher, Bliukher etc, Russian: Василий Константинович Блюхер) (November 9, 1938), Soviet military commander, was among the prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. Blyukher was born into a peasant family in village Barschinka, now in Yaroslavl Oblast. - Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887-1961) became a labor activist, when at the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames County, Kansas to Chicago in 1893. During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Diaz, and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata. On his return, he began work in various union positions, most of which were very poorly paid. - Boris Souvarine
Boris Souvarine was an Imperial Russian-born French socialist and communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
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