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Samuil Agurskii
(1884–1947), Communist Party figure and historian. Born in Grodno, where he had a traditional elementary education, Samuil (also Shmuel or Sam) Agurskii joined the Bund during the revolution of 1905. From 1906 to May 191…
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Leo Trotzki
(1879–1940), revolutionary and central figure in Soviet and world communism. Leon Trotsky, originally Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was born in Kherson province, and was the son of a well-to-do tenant farmer who later becam…
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Béla Kun
(1886–1938), Hungarian Communist leader. Béla Kun (originally Kohn) was born to a poor Transylvanian family in the village of Lele. His father, then a village official, was later fired and struggled to find work, but nev…
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Chaim Schitlowsky
Russisch-jiddischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller
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Friedrich Engels
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Grigori Andrejewitsch Gerschuni
(1870–1908), a founding member of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party and one of the leaders of its Combat Organization. Grigorii Gershuni was born near Kaunas, Lithuania. Some sources describe him as a chemist, wh…
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Grigory Zinoviev
(1883–1936), revolutionary and Soviet political figure. Grigorii Zinov’ev, known earlier as Ovsei-Gersh Aronovich Apfel’baum or Radomysl’skii, was born in Elisavetgrad, Kherson province, to the assimilated family of an o…
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Jakow Michailowitsch Swerdlow
(Moiseevich; party pseudonyms Andrei, Maks; 1885–1919), revolutionary and Soviet party figure. Born in Nizhnii Novrgorod to an artisan engraver who also owned a typographical and printing workshop, as a youth Iakov Sverd…
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Juri Michailowitsch Steklow
(1873–1941), revolutionary, Soviet historian, and publicist. Born Ovsii Moiseevich Nakhamkis, and subsequently known by the pseudonym Nevzorov, Iurii Steklov was the son of a Jewish merchant from Odessa. In 1893 he joine…
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Karl Radek
(1885–1939), international revolutionary activist and publicist. Born in Lwów, Karl Radek (originally surnamed Sobel’son) grew up in Tarnów, in his mother’s family, where the German culture was dominant. In gymnasium he …
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Lasar Moissejewitsch Kaganowitsch
(1893–1991), Communist Party and Soviet government official. The son of a struggling artisan, Lazar’ Kaganovich was born in the Chernobyl district, Kiev province. An autodidact, from the age of 14 he worked in Kiev as a …
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Lew Borissowitsch Kamenew
(Lev Borisovich Rosenfel’d; 1883–1936), a principal leader of the Bolshevik party and the early Soviet government. Apprenticed in radical politics during his high school and truncated university careers, Kamenev was an e…
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Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin
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Moisei Rafes
(Moisei Grigor’evich; 1883–1942), public and political figure active in the Bund and Evsektsiia. Born in Vilna into a family of wine merchants, Moyshe Rafes first attended heder, then a Russian primary school, and passed…
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Victor Serge
Trotzkist; 1936-1940 in Frankreich, danach Exil in Mexiko
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Vladimir Lenin
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Yuri Larin
(1882–1932), Soviet economist, political figure, and publicist. Iurii Larin was born in Simferopol’ as Mikhail Aleksandrovich Luria. His father, Shneur (Shelomoh) Zalman Luria, was an engineer, Hebrew author, Zionist, an…
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Aleksander Sochaczewski
Polnischer Maler jüdischer Herkunft; 1863 Teilnehmer am Januaraufstand gegen das Russische Reich, bis 1883 nach Sibirien verbannt; danach in Westeuropa tätig
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Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Lunatscharski
1892 Studium der Naturwissenschaften und der Philosophie in Paris und Zürich, ab 1897 als Mitglied der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei in Russland mehrfach inhaftiert und in der Emigration, 1903 Anhänger des Bolsch…
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Dawid Borissowitsch Rjasanow
Historiker, Politologe, Publizist, Russland
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