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Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
Nicholas II of Russia
the 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
Mikhail Sholokhov
Soviet writer (1905-1984)
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)
Nestor Makhno
Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet military commander (1895-1970)
Georgy Lvov
Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)
Yakov Sverdlov
Soviet politician
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist, revolutionary, politician, and statesman (1880–1951)
Christian Rakovsky
Soviet diplomat (1873-1941)
Nikolai Krylenko
Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser (1885-1938)
Irakli Tsereteli
Georgian politician (1881-1959)
Nikolay Chkheidze
Georgian politician (1864-1926)
Georgy Pyatakov
Soviet Ukrainian politician (1890-1937)
Volin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was forced into exile, where he gravitated towards anarcho-syndicalism.
Alexander Parvus
German political activist (1867–1924)
Fyodor Raskolnikov
Soviet diplomat (1892-1939)
Yakov Yurovsky
Chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)
Maria Nikiforova
Ukrainian anarchist (1885–1919)
Halyna Kuzmenko
Ukrainian anarchist (1897–1978)
Arvīds Pelše
Soviet politician, historian (1899-1983)
Fyodor Sergeyev
Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist (1883-1921)
Fyodor Dan
Russian revolutionary (1871-1947)
Larisa Reisner
Russian writer, editor (1895–1926)
Eugen Leviné
Bavarian revolutionary, politician (KPD) and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1883-1919)
Women's Battalion
world War I Russian all-female combat units
Stepan Petrichenko
Russian revolutionary and leader of the Krondstadt rebellion (1892-1947)
Sigizmund Levanevsky
Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1902–1937)
Mustafa Shokay
Kazakhstani politician (1890–1941)
Pinhas Rutenberg
Israeli engineer (1879-1942)
Yakov Ganetsky
Soviet politician (1879-1937)
Natalia Brasova
Russian empress for one day (1880–1952)
Sergey Lazo
Soviet Russian partisan
Boris Annenkov
Russian military personnel (1889-1927)
Alexander Lukomsky
Russian general (1868-1939)
Jēkabs Peterss
Latvian revolutionary (1886–1938)
Ion Inculeț
President of Moldova (1884-1940)
Volodymyr Zatonsky
Ukrainian politician (1888–1938)
Nikifor Grigoriev
Ukrainian paramilitary leader
Pëtr Voykov
Russian politician and iplomat, accused of involvement in the execution of the former Emperor Nicholas II and his family.
Tapa Tchermoeff
Russian politician
Nikolai Sukhanov
Soviet economist (1882-1940)
Timofei Sapronov
Russian revolutionary (1887-1937)
Joseph Noulens
French politician and diplomat (1864–1944)
Zamfir Arbore
Romanian political activist (1848-1933)
Anatoli Zhelezniakov
Russian anarchist and revolutionary (1895-1919)
Mehmet Niyazi
Turkish-Romanian writer of Crimean Tatar ancestry (1878–1931)
Olof Aschberg
Swedish banker and businessman (1877-1960)
Georgy Safarov
Soviet politician (1891-1942)
Nadejda Grinfeld
Moldovan politician
Vsevolod Holubovych
Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1885-1939)
Pavel Lebedev
Russian major general (1872–1933)
Boris Gudz
OGPU agent (1902-2006)
Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
Soviet writer (1885–1938)
Vladimir Orlov
Russian politician and equestrian (1869-1927)
Gregori Maximoff
Soviet anarchist dissident (1893-1950)
Minay Shmyryov
politician (1891-1964)
N. D. Cocea
Romanian journalist and activist (1880-1949)
Grigori Yevdokimov
Soviet politician (1884-1936)
Aliheydar Garayev
Azərbaijan Soviet politician (1896-1938)