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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Marx | Karl Heinrich Marx | 1818 | 1883 | German | philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx |
| Leon Trotsky | Lev Davidovich Bronstein | none | 1940 | Ukrainian | Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky |
| Vladimir Lenin | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | 1870 | 1924 | Russian | revolutionary, politician, and political theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Rosa Luxemburg | 1871 | 1919 | Polish | revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg |
| Kurt Eisner | Kurt Eisner | 1867 | 1919 | German | politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eisner |
| Ilya Ehrenburg | Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg | none | 1967 | Soviet | writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg |
| Ernst Toller | Ernst Toller | 1893 | 1939 | German | author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Toller |
| Leo Jogiches | Leon "Leo" Jogiches | 1867 | 1919 | Polish | Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania and Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Jogiches |
| Lev Kamenev | Lev Borisovich Kamenev | none | 1936 | null | Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet prominent politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Kamenev |
| Grigory Zinoviev | Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev | none | 1936 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zinoviev |
| Maxim Litvinov | Maxim Maximovich Litvinov | 1876 | 1951 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet prominent statesman and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Litvinov |
| Heinrich Marx | Heinrich Marx | 1777 | 1838 | null | lawyer and the father of the revolutionary leader and influential socialist thinker Karl Marx | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Marx |
| Béla Kun | Béla Kun | 1886 | 1938 | Hungarian | communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Kun |
| Yakov Yurovsky | Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky | none | 1938 | Russian | Old Bolshevik, revolutionary, and Soviet Chekist (secret policeman) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Yurovsky |
| Julius Martov | Julius Martov or L. Martov | 1873 | 1923 | null | politician and revolutionary who became the leader of the Mensheviks in early 20th-century Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Martov |
| Moisei Uritsky | Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky | null | null | null | Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei_Uritsky |
| Józef Unszlicht | Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht | 1879 | 1938 | Polish | revolutionary activist, a Soviet government official and one of the founders of the Cheka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Unszlicht |
| Solomon Lozovsky | Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky | 1878 | 1952 | null | prominent Communist and Bolshevik revolutionary, a high-ranking official in the Soviet government, including as a Presidium member of the All-Union Central Council of Soviet Trade Unions, a Central Committee member of the Communist Party, a member of the Supreme Soviet, a deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs and the head of the Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Lozovsky |
| David Riazanov | David Riazanov | 1870 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary, historian, bibliographer and archivist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Riazanov |
| Yevno Azef | Yevno Fishelevich Azef | 1869 | 1918 | Russian | socialist revolutionary who also operated as a double agent and agent provocateur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevno_Azef |
| Paul Lafargue | Paul Lafargue | 1842 | 1911 | Cuban | revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law having married his second daughter, Laura | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lafargue |
| Adolph Joffe | Adolph Abramovich Joffe | 1883 | 1927 | Russian | revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Joffe |
| Olga Kameneva | Olga Davidovna Kameneva | 1883 | 1941 | Russian | Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kameneva |
| Lyubov Axelrod | Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod | 1868 | 1946 | Russian | revolutionary, Marxist philosopher and an art theoretician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_Axelrod |
| V. Volodarsky | V. Volodarsky | 1891 | 1918 | null | Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Volodarsky |
| Eugen Leviné | Eugen Leviné | 1883 | 1919 | German | communist revolutionary and one of the leaders of the short-lived Second Bavarian Soviet Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Leviné |
| Yemelyan Yaroslavsky | Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky | none | 1943 | null | Bolshevik revolutionary, Communist Party functionary, journalist and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemelyan_Yaroslavsky |
| Max Goldstein | Max Goldstein | 1898 | 1924 | Romanian | revolutionary, variously described as a communist and an anarchist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Goldstein |
| Filipp Goloshchyokin | Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin | n/a | 1941 | null | Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and party functionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipp_Goloshchyokin |
| Grigory Sokolnikov | Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov | 1888 | 1939 | Russian | Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Sokolnikov |
| Fabio Grobart | Fabio Grobart | 1905 | 1994 | null | Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and politician who played an important role in the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista and led to Fidel Castro's rise to power | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Grobart |
| Jacob Golos | Jacob Golos | 1889 | 1943 | Ukrainian | Bolshevik revolutionary who became an intelligence operative in the United States on behalf of the USSR. A founding member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), circa 1930 Golos became involved in the covert work of Soviet intelligence agencies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Golos |
| Leo Deutsch | Lev Grigorievich Deutsch | 1855 | 1941 | Russian | Marxist revolutionary and one of four founding members of Russia's Marxist Organisation, the precursor of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Deutsch |
| Mikhail Koltsov | Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov | none | 1940 | Soviet | Journalist, revolutionary and a NKVD Agent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Koltsov |
| Henryk Grossman | Henryk Grossman | 1881 | 1950 | Polish | economist, historian, and Marxist revolutionary active in both Poland and Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Grossman |
| Rosalia Zemlyachka | Rosalia Samoilovna Zemlyachka, née Zalkind | 1876 | 1947 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Zemlyachka |
| Ludwig Bamberger | Ludwig Bamberger | 1823 | 1899 | German | Jewish economist, politician, revolutionary and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Bamberger |
| Samuel Bronston | Samuel Bronston | 1908 | 1994 | null | Bessarabian-born American film producer, film director, and a nephew of socialist revolutionary figure, Leon Trotsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bronston |
| Pavel Axelrod | Pavel Borisovich Axelrod | 1850 | 1928 | null | early Russian Marxist revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Axelrod |
| Mikhail Borodin | Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg | 1884 | 1951 | null | Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International (Comintern) agent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Borodin |
| Constantin Daniel Rosenthal | Constantin Daniel Rosenthal | 1820 | 1851 | Romanian | painter and sculptor of Austrian-Jewish birth and a 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Daniel_Rosenthal |
| Moses Dobruška | Moses Dobruška or Moses Dobruschka | 1753 | 1794 | null | writer, poet and revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Dobruška |
| Mark Natanson | Mark Andreyevich Natanson | 1850 | 1851 | Russian | revolutionary who was one of the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky, Land and Liberty and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Natanson |
| Ilya Rubanovich | Ilya Alfonsovich Rubanovich | 1859 | 1920 | Russian | revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Rubanovich |
| Tamara Bunke | Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider | 1937 | 1967 | Argentine | East German communist revolutionary and spy who played a prominent role in the Cuban government after the Cuban Revolution and in various Latin American revolutionary movements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Bunke |
| Osip Piatnitsky | Osip Aaronovitch Piatnitsky | 1882 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Piatnitsky |
| Anna Kuliscioff | Anna Kuliscioff | 1857 | 1925 | Russian | Jewish revolutionary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist influenced by Mikhail Bakunin, and eventually a Marxist socialist militant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kuliscioff |
| Vladimir Bogoraz | Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz | n/a | 1936 | Russian | revolutionary, writer and anthropologist, especially known for his studies of the Chukchi people in Siberia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bogoraz |
| Sergey Ivanovich Gusev | Sergei Ivanovich Gusev | 1874 | 1933 | Russian | revolutionary, a founding member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Ivanovich_Gusev |
| Friedrich Adler (politician) | Friedrich Wolfgang "Fritz" Adler | 1879 | 1960 | Austrian | socialist politician and revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Adler_(politician) |
| Hesya Helfman | Hesya Mirovna (Meerovna) Helfman | null | null | Russian | revolutionary member of Narodnaya Volya, who was implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesya_Helfman |
| Grigory Gershuni | Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni | null | null | Russian | revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Gershuni |
| Mishka Yaponchik | Mishka Yaponchik | 1891 | 1919 | null | Odessa gangster, Jewish revolutionary, and a Soviet military leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishka_Yaponchik |
| Arkady Rosengolts | Arkady Pavlovich Rosengolts | 1889 | 1938 | null | Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet military leader, politician and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Rosengolts |
| Senya Fleshin | Senya Fleshin | 1894 | 1981 | Ukrainian | anarchist revolutionary and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senya_Fleshin |
| Boris Kamkov | Boris Davidovich Kamkov | 1885 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary, a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and a member of the Council of People's Commissars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kamkov |
| Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova | Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova | none | 1937 | Russian | Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the younger sister of Vladimir Lenin and Anna Ulyanova | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ilyinichna_Ulyanova |
| Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov | Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov | none | 1943 | Russian | physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Ilyich_Ulyanov |
| Máté Zalka | Máté Zalka | 1896 | 1937 | Hungarian | writer, soldier and revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Máté_Zalka |
| Ervin Szabó | Ervin Szabó | 1877 | 1918 | Hungarian | social scientist, librarian and anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervin_Szabó |
| Leó Frankel | Leó Frankel | 1844 | 1896 | null | Communist revolutionary of Hungarian and Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leó_Frankel |
| Alexander Drankov | Alexander Osipovich Drankov | 1886 | 1949 | Russian | Empire and Soviet photographer, cameraman, film producer, and one of the pioneers of the Russian pre-revolutionary cinematography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Drankov |
| Fanya Baron | Fanya Anisimovna Baron | 1887 | 1921 | Russian | anarchist revolutionary who lived in America from 1911 to 1917 when she returned to her homeland to build a post-revolutionary society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanya_Baron |
| Ephraim Sklyansky | Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky | 1925 | n/a | Soviet | revolutionary and statesman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Sklyansky |
| Aron Baron | Aron Baron | 1891 | 1937 | null | anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary and theorist, brother of the Red Cossacks Army Ataman Mikhail Baron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Baron |
| Marc Chirik | Marck Chirik | 1907 | 1990 | null | communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the International Communist Current | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chirik |
| Hélène Rytmann | Hélène Rytmann | 1910 | 1980 | French | revolutionary and sociologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélène_Rytmann |
| Osip Aptekman | Osip Vasilyevich Aptekman | null | null | Russian | revolutionary, member of the Land and Liberty, and one of the founders of the Black Repartition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Aptekman |
| Rafail Farbman | Rafail Borisovich Farbman | 1893 | 1966 | null | revolutionary Bolshevik and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafail_Farbman |
| Juda Grossman | Juda Solomonovich Grossman | 1883 | 1934 | Ukrainian | revolutionary anarchist, publicist and literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_Grossman |
| Józef Lewartowski | Józef Lewartowski | 1895 | 1942 | Polish | communist politician of Jewish origin, revolutionary, member of the KPP and PPR one of the first organizers of the Jewish resistance in Nazi occupied Poland, co-founder of the Anti-Fascist Bloc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Lewartowski |
| Yakov Doletsky | Yakov Genrikhovich Doletsky | 1888 | 1937 | Polish | revolutionary and long-serving head of the Soviet news agency TASS. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Doletsky |
| Semyon Nakhimson | Semen Mikhailovich Nakhimson | 1885 | 1918 | null | member of the revolutionary movement in Russia and military commissar of the Yaroslavl District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Nakhimson |
| Aaron Zundelevich | Aaron Isaakovich Zundelevich | none | 1923 | Russian | Jewish revolutionary narodnik | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Zundelevich |
| Isidore Gukovsky | Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky | 1871 | 1921 | Russian | revolutionary who was a People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR following the Russian Revolution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Gukovsky |
| Yakov Drobnis | Yakov Naumovich Drobnis | 1890 | 1937 | null | Bolshevik revolutionary who supported Leon Trotsky, and a defendant at one of the Moscow Show Trials | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Drobnis |
| Abram Belenky | Abram Yakovlevich Belenky (Khatskelevich) | 1882 | 1883 | Russian | revolutionary, Bolshevik and a major functionary of the Soviet secret police (Cheka / OGPU / NKVD), born in Swierżań, Russian Emipre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Belenky |
| Simon Deutsch | Simon Deutsch | none | 1877 | Austrian | Jewish bibliographer, businessman, and revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Deutsch |
| Lydia Dan | Lydia Osipovna Dan | 1878 | 1963 | null | Menshevik revolutionary leader and active participant in the revolutionary movement of Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Dan |
| Grigory Goldenberg | Grigory Goldenberg | 1855 | 1880 | Russian | revolutionary and member of the «Narodnaya Volya» (People's Will) organisation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Goldenberg |
| Pati Kremer | Pati Kremer | 1867 | 1943 | Russian | revolutionary socialist and pioneer of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pati_Kremer |
| Ekaterina Voroshilova | Ekaterina Davidovna Voroshilova | 1887 | 1959 | null | spouse of Kliment Voroshilov, a Russian revolutionary and later Soviet party and state functionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Voroshilova |
| Mikhail Gots | Mikhail Rafailovich Gots | 1866 | 1906 | Russian | revolutionary, member of 'The People's Will' (Narodnaya Volya) and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gots |
| Mikhail Boguslavsky | Mikhail Solomonovich Boguslavsky | 1886 | 1937 | null | Russian revolutionary and politician, who was tried and executed as a former supporter of Leon Trotsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Boguslavsky |
| Eva Broido | Eva L'vovna Gordon Broido | 1876 | 1878 | Russian | revolutionary, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Menshevik Party in 1917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Broido |
| Danielius Dolskis | Danielius Dolskis | 1891 | 1931 | Lithuanian | popular singer noted in pre-revolutionary Russia and in inter-war Lithuania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielius_Dolskis |
| Osip Minor | Osip Solomonovich Minor | 1861 | 1932 | Russian | revolutionary and member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Minor |
| Adolf Wiesner | Adolf Wiesner | 1807 | 1867 | Austrian | journalist, playwright, author, and revolutionary who fled to the United States after the Revolutions of 1848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Wiesner |
| J. C. Blumenfeld | J. C. Blumenfeld | null | null | Polish | Jewish revolutionary and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Blumenfeld |
| Yuri Steklov | Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov | 1941 | n/a | Russian | revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist, editor and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Steklov |
| Zachariah Carpi | Zachariah Carpi | null | null | Italian | Jewish revolutionary, born at Revere in the second half of the 18th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachariah_Carpi |
| Cecilia Bobrovskaya | Cecilia Samoylovna Bobrovskaya | 1960 | n/a | null | early Bolshevik activist, revolutionary, and memoirist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Bobrovskaya |
| Pinkhus Rovner | Pinkhus Rovner | 1875 | 1919 | Ukrainian | Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkhus_Rovner |
| Tobias Akselrod | Tobias Akselrod | 1887 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary and 1919 member of the Bavarian Soviet Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Akselrod |
| Vera Slutskaya | Vera Klimentievna Slutskaya | 1874 | 1917 | Russian | revolutionary and Bolshevik member of the Duma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Slutskaya |
| Lajos Pálmai | Lajos Pálmai | 1866 | 1937 | Hungarian | politician, who served as Minister of Justice in the Counter-revolutionary Government of Arad during the Hungarian Soviet Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Pálmai |
| Aizik Aronchik | Aizik Borisovich Aronchik | 1859 | 1888 | Russian | revolutionary, who took part in a failed attempt to assassinate the Tsar Alexander II.Aronchik, Aizik Borisovich on Brokhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia in 16 volumes, Moscow 1908-1913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizik_Aronchik |
| Mikhail Baron | Mikhail Baron | 1894 | n/a | null | anarchist and socialist revolutionary, brother of Aron Baron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Baron |
| Abram Ginzburg | Abram Moiseevich Ginzburg | 1878 | 1937 | Russian | revolutionary and economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Ginzburg |