Perpetrators of the Red Terror (Russia)

founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)

Ukrainian revolutionary (1883-1936)

Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)

Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs

Soviet army officer (1885–1925)

Soviet politician (1886-1937)

Soviet politician

Soviet explorer (1894–1986)

Soviet diplomat (1888-1939)

Prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader/diplomat (1883-1938)

Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser (1885-1938)

Soviet military commander (1896–1937)

Soviet general (1881-1925)

Soviet politician (1878–1958)

Bolshevik politician (1879-1925)

Russian politician and diplomat (1889-1938)

Russian revolutionary (1876-1947)

Russian aviator (1889–1920)

Russian revolutionary (1881-1936)

Soviet politician (1879-1938)

Soviet politician (1876–1941)

Latvian revolutionary (1886–1938)

Soviet politician

Latvian communist politician (1888-1938)

Russian general (1880-1918)

soviet politician (1894–1938)

Russian politician (1891-1938)

Soviet spy and defector (1895–1937)

Russian bolshevik politician (1885–1941)

NKVD Officer (1892–1937)

Soviet secret police official (1892-1940)

Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1878–1941)

Armenian Bolshevik/Soviet security police official (1892–1925)

Soviet politician (1886-1937)

Soviet politician (1891–1940)

Soviet politician (1896–1938)

Soviet politician (1883-1937)

Soviet general