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Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky (), was a Russian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a ...
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.
Russian revolutionary and Lenin's wife (1869–1939)
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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Russian: Надежда Константиновна Крупская, 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1869 – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir ...
Russian revolutionary and French-language author (1890–1947)
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Victor Serge born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), was a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist, poet and historian. Originally ...
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков; 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian ...
Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician, and writer (1875–1933)
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Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov, 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet ...
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Cecilia Samoylovna Bobrovskaya (Russian: Цецилия Самойловна Бобровская, née Zelikson [Зеликсон]; 19 September 1873 [O.S. 7 September] – 6 July 1960) was an early Bolshevik activist, re ...
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D. S. Mirsky is the English pen-name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (Russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Святопо́лк-Ми́рский), often known as Prince Mirsky (9 September [O.S. 22 August] 1890 – ...
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Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, ), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely (Russian: Андре́й Бе́лый, 26 October [O.S. 14 October] 1880 – ...
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Зо́щенко; August 9 [O.S. July 28] 1894 – July 22, 1958) was a Soviet author and satirist.
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Vasìly Onisimovich Afanàsiev (alias Vasìly Anisimovich Anìsimoff) was a revolutionary and a propagandist of Marxism as well as a prominent activist and supporter of the Russian and international Socialist ...
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Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan (Russian: Мариэ́тта Серге́евна Шагиня́н; Armenian: Մարիետա Սերգեյի Շահինյան, April 2, 1888 – March 20, 1982) was a Soviet writer, historian and activist of Armenian ...
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Yury Karlovich Olesha (Russian: Ю́рий Ка́рлович Оле́ша, March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists ...
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (Russian: Гео́ргий Валенти́нович Плеха́нов, 29 November 1856 – 30 May 1918) was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of ...
Russian revolutionary, syndicalist, feminist, Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician
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Klavdiya Ivanovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Клавдия Ивановна Николаева June 13, 1893 – December 28, 1944), was a revolutionary, syndicalist, feminist and Russian and Soviet politician.