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Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist, and Bolshevik leader in the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war. He chaired the Petrograd Soviet in 1917, served as Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, and organized the Red Army. After losing the struggle for power to Jose...

"The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution" is a political pamphlet written by Vladimir Lenin in 1917. The text expands upon the arguments initially presented in his April Theses following the February Revolution. Lenin outlines a strategic transition from the bourgeois-democratic revolution to...

Nadezhda Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and the wife of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Following the 1917 October Revolution, she became a prominent stateswoman and played a highly influential role in developing the Soviet Union's public education and library systems. As the Soviet D...

Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and high-ranking Soviet politician. He was a leading figure in the early Soviet state, contributing heavily to economic policy and authoring foundational texts like "The ABC of Communism." Bukharin ultimately fell ou...

Inessa Armand was a French-born Bolshevik organizer and revolutionary active in the Russian revolutionary movement. In 1919, she directed the Soviet Communist Party's Zhenotdel, the department responsible for work among women. Her place in history reflects the Bolsheviks' attempt to organize women p...

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, political writer, and Bolshevik politician who worked on questions of women, family, labor, and sexuality. After the October Revolution, she served as the Russian Soviet government's People's Commissar for Social Welfare from 1917 to...

Grigory Zinoviev was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who became one of Vladimir Lenin’s close associates. He chaired the Communist International, or Comintern, from 1919 to 1926 and was a major figure in early Soviet party leadership before losing power in conflicts with Jose...

Lev Kamenev was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik politician who became one of the senior leaders of the Soviet state after the 1917 Revolution. He chaired the Moscow Soviet and served on the Communist Party's leading bodies, but later entered opposition to Joseph Stalin and was tried in the fir...

Yakov Sverdlov was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik party organizer who played a central administrative role after the October Revolution of 1917. He became chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, a position that made him the de facto head of state of Soviet Russia, and also le...

Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Polish-born revolutionary and Bolshevik official who founded the Cheka, the security organization created by the Soviet government in December 1917. He led the Cheka during the early years of the Russian Civil War and later headed successor security bodies. Dzerzhinsky is ass...