- Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known by the alias 'Lenin', was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Soviet Union, and the primary theorist of Leninism, a variant of Marxism.
- Lalitha Lenin
Lalitha Lenin, Thrithalloor, Thrissur district) is a renowned poet in Malayalam. K. K. Lalitha Bai (her official name) was also the Head of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. In addition, she was a member in the Senate and Academic Council of the University of Kerala, General Council of Kerala Sahitya Academy, Jansikshan Sansthan Management Board, Governing Body of the State Institute of Children’s Literature, …
- Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera, (full name "Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez") was a Mexican painter and muralist born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato. Diego Rivera is perhaps best known by the public world for his 1933 mural, "Man at the Crossroads," in the lobby of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center.
- Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and he received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault.
- Lev Kamenev
"'"' (– August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and a founding member (1919) and later chairman (1923-1924) of the ruling Politburo. Kamenev was born in Moscow, the son of a Jewish railway worker and a Russian Orthodox housewife.
- Inessa Armand
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 born in Paris as the daughter of Théodore Stéphane, an opera singer, and Nathalie Wild, a comedienne. Her father died when she was only five and she was brought up by an aunt living in Moscow. At the age of nineteen she married Alexander Armand, the son of a wealthy Russian textile manufacturer.
- Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (December 11, 1856 - May 30, 1918; "Old Style:" November 29 1856 - May 17 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia. Plekhanov contributed many ideas to Marxism in the area of philosophy and the roles of art and religion in society. In his political activities he adopted the nom de guerre of Volgin, after the Volga River.
- Paul Levi
Paul Levi was a German Communist politician. Paul Levi, born in Hechingen into a Jewish middle-class family joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1906. There he became part of the party’s left wing together with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Levi was also Luxemburg's lawyer in political cases. During World War I, Levi became one of the leaders of the Spartacist League which soon became the Communist Party of Germany.
- 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, …
- Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky. His movies are said to represent an ultimate challenge in contemporary intellectual film making. Sokurov was born in Siberia in the officer's family on June 14, 1951. He graduated from the History Department of the Nizhny Novgorod University in 1974 and entered one of the VGIK studios the following year.
- Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (August 11, 1897-November 28, 1968) was a popular English children's writer. She was one of the most successful juvenile storytellers of the twentieth century. She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 400 million copies.
- Lavr Kornilov
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов) (August 18, 1870-April 13, 1918) was a senior Russian army general during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War. He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful attempt in August/September 1917 to overthrow Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government which led to Alexander Kerensky freeing the Bolsheviks.
- Boris Souvarine
Boris Souvarine was an Imperial Russian-born French socialist and communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
- Emil Ludwig
Emil Ludwig (1881 - 1948) was a German author, known for his biographies. Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novella, but also worked as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the "Berliner Tageblatt" in Vienna and Istanbul.
- 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.
- Fritz Platten
Fritz Platten was a Swiss Communist. After the collapse of the Second International, Platten joined the Zimmerwald Movement and became a Communist. Fritz Platten is mostly know for having been the main organizer of Lenin’s return trip from the exile in Switzerland back home to Russia after the February Revolution. Due to the World War, the trip was not easily arranged, but Lenin and his company traveled through Germany in a sealed traincar.
- Bertram Wolfe
Bertram David Wolfe was an American scholar and former Communist best known for writing "Three Who Made a Revolution" (1948), a biographical study of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, and "The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera" (ISBN 0-8128-1259-X).
- Solomon Mikhoels
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (real surname - Vovsi), ; (January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Born Shloyme Vovsi in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils), Latvia, Mikhoels studied law in Saint Petersburg, but left school in 1918 to join Alexander Granovsky's Jewish Theater Workshop, which was attempting to create a national Jewish theater in Russia based on the Yiddish language.
- Robert Grimm
Robert Grimm was a Swiss Socialist politician and former President of the Swiss National Council. Grimm was a leading member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and opposed the First World War, which after the collapse of the Second International made him work closely with the world Communist movement.
- Mikhail Zoshchenko
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko was the foremost Russian satirist of the Soviet period. Zoschenko's father was a mosaicist responsible for the exterior decoration of the Suvorov Museum in Saint Petersburg. The future writer attended the Faculty of Law at the Saint Petersburg University, joined the army during World War I, then shared the views of the Serapion Brothers.
- Bill Bland
Bill Bland (April 28, 1916-March 13 2001) was a British Stalinist and optician who was notable as a worldwide leader of the rather small movement that backed Enver Hoxha, the Albanian communist leader, in the struggles over Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in the later 1960s. Before becoming a leader of the small anti-revisionist movement Bland was a member of the Communist Party of New Zealand and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Alexander Shlyapnikov
Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov (also spelt Shlyapnikov) (August 30, 1885, Murom - September 2, 1937, Moscow) was a Russian communist, trade union leader and skilled metalworker. Shliapnikov was born in Murom, Russia to a poor family of the Old Believer religion. His father died when he was a small child. Shliapnikov began factory work at age thirteen and became a revolutionary at age sixteen. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1903.
- Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinskii, was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953. Vyshinsky was of Polish descent and spoke some English and excellent French. He became a Menshevik in 1903 and in 1917 he undersigned an order to arrest Lenin according the decision of the Russian Provisional Government.
- Fedor Dan
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 Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. He was arrested in 1896 and exiled in Oryol for three years. On his return he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and went to London for their Second Congress in 1903. Dan aligned himself with Julius Martov who wanted to have a larger party of activists, …
- Tibor Szamuely
Tibor Szamuely was a Hungarian Communist leader. Born in Nyíregyháza, a city in the Northeast of Hungary, Szamuely (original Samuel) was the oldest son of five children of a Jewish family. After sompleting his university studies, he became a journalist. He started his political activities as a member of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. Szamuely was drafted and fought as a soldier during World War I; in 1915, he was captured by the Russians.
- Harry Quelch
Harry Quelch (30 January, 1858 - 17 September, 1913) was a socialist activist, journalist and trade unionist, brother of Lorenzo Quelch and father of Tom Quelch, also socialist activists. Born in Hungerford, Berkshire, he joined the Democratic Federation (forerunner of the Social Democratic Federation) in 1881 and was elected to its executive in 1883. When much of the party's hierarchy left to form the Socialist League, he remained a supporter of H. M. Hyndman.
- Faiz Ahmad
Dr. Faiz Ahmad (داکتر فیض احمد) was the founding leader of the Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO), a Marxist-Leninist organization established in Kabul. Ahmad was born in Qandahar, Afghanistan. He attended primary and secondary schools in Qandahar, before coming to Kabul to enter Naderia High School where he became involved in the revolutionary left movement after reading some works of Marx and Lenin.
- Irakli Tsereteli
Irakli Tsereteli (also spelled Irakly Tsereteli) commonly known as Kaki Tsereteli was a Georgian politician, one of the leaders of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and the Georgian Mensheviks. Born to a family of the esteemed Georgian writer, Giorgi Tsereteli, he studied law at Moscow University where he became involved in the reform movement. After taking part in a student demonstration he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia.
- Otto Grimlund
Otto Bernhard Grimlund was a Swedish Communist politician. Originally a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party he joined the revolutionary left-wing in the party split of 1917 and represented the "Swedish Social Democratic Left Party" at the founding of the Communist International in Moscow in 1919. Together with the Swiss Socialist Fritz Platten, Otto Grimlund had been the main organizer of Lenin’s 1917 trip from the exile in Switzerland, …
- Dora Russell
Dora Black (3 April 1894 - 31 May 1986), was an author, a feminist and progressive campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell. Black was born into an English middle class family, the second of four children. Her father, Sir Frederick Black, worked his way up in the Civil Service and laid great store by his children's education, regardless of their sex. She went to a private co-educational primary school near her parents' place, …
- Alexander Gerasimov
Alexander Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (August 12, 1881 - July 23, 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Stalin as well as other Soviet leaders. Gerasimov was born on August 12, 1881 in Kozlov (now Michurinsk) in Tambov Governorate. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1903 to 1915. There he championed traditional realistic representational art against the avant-garde.
- Theodore Rothstein
Theodore Rothstein (1871 - 1953) was a Russian communist. Rothstein left Russia in 1890 and settled in Britain. In 1895, he joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and in 1900 was elected to its executive. He also joined the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party, siding with the Bolsheviks against the Mensheviks and becoming a close comrade of Lenin, who often stayed at Rothstein's house on Clapton Square in the Hackney area of London.
- Fredrik Ström
Fredrik Ström was a Swedish Socialist politician and a prolific writer. He held a seat in the Riksdag 1916 - 1921, and 1930 - 1938. He joined the Swedish Social Democratic Party and in 1916 was elected to the Riksdag. But in 1917 Ström broke with Hjalmar Branting and sided with the far left wing of the party, headed by the communists Zeth Höglund and Ture Nerman. This group supported the Russian Bolsheviks and would soon become the (original) Swedish Communist Party.
- Alan Brien
Alan Brien (born March 12, 1925) is a British journalist best known for his novel "Lenin". This took the form of a fictional diary charting Lenin's life from the death of his father to shortly before his own demise in 1924. During his career in journalism, Brien worked as a critic, columnist and foreign correspondent for a variety of publications, most notably "The Sunday Times", "Punch", the "New Statesman" and "The Observer".
- Paul Rutherford
Paul William Rutherford (born 29 February 1940 in Greenwich, South East London) is a British free improvising trombonist. He initially played saxophone but switched to trombone. During the 1960s he taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is a major player in the British free improvisation scene and part of the European free jazz scene. He was one of the first to use unorthodox playing techniques for improvisation.
- Jerome Davis
Jerome Davis (December 2, 1891-October 1979) was a labor organizer and sociologist. Early in his life he campaigned to reduce the workweek, and as an advocate of organized labor. He worked for the YMCA in Russia where he worked with a number of Bolshevik leaders including Lenin and Stalin. He received a PhD in sociology from Columbia University and was a professor at the Yale Divinity School.
- Hella Wuolijoki
Hella Wuolijoki was a Finnish writer of Estonian origin, known for her "Niskavuori" series. She was born in Helme, Estonia. In 1908, she married Sulo Vuolijoki, who was a personal friend of Lenin. They divorced in 1923. Later in her life Hella Wuolijoki started writing her name with "W"-letter. In 1920s-1930s, Hella Vuolijoki had a "political salon" to discuss humanistic matters and to promote left-wing ideas. However, during that time she was not openly communist, …
- Carl Lindhagen
Carl Albert Lindhagen was a Swedish lawyer, socialist politician, and pacifist. Carl Lindhagen was the Chief Magistrate ("Borgmästare") of Stockholm 1903 – 1930. His office was more senior than mayor, as it was an unelected gubernatorial and judicial office under the Swedish government, and not the Municipality of Stockholm. As a lawyer, Lindhagen participated as adviser for the executives of the testament of Alfred Nobel.
- Isaak Brodsky
Isaak Izrailevich Brodskiy (August 14, 1939, Leningrad) was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution. Brodskiy was born in the village of Sofiyevka in Ukraine. He studied at Odessa Art Academy and the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
- Sergey Kuryokhin
Sergey Kuryokhin (June 16, 1954 - July 9, 1996) was a Russian piano player, avant-garde composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor. Outside Russia he is primarily known as jazz and experimental musician, through his works released since 1981 on UK's Leo Records, as well as his tours with "Ensemble Pop-Mekhanika". He also made a significant contribution to several albums of the famous Russian rock band Aquarium.