Early career. Grigori Sokolnikov was born Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant in Romny on 15 August 1888, the son of a Jewish doctor employed by the railways. He moved to Moscow as a teenager and became involved in revolutionary circles alongside his friend and classmate, Nikolai Bukharin. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905.

Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge.. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, …

Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign, Nicholas gave support to the …

8 novembre 1917-16 novembre 1917 : Alexeï Rykov (fusillé le 15 mars 1938) 30 novembre 1917-30 mars 1919 : Grigori Petrovski; 31 mars 1919-juillet 1923 : Félix Dzerjinski; août 1923-novembre 1927 : Alexandre Beloborodov (fusillé le 10 février 1938) 2 janvier 1928-14 décembre 1930 : Vladimir Tolmatchov (fusillé le 20 septembre 1937)

The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.The main function of the palace was to house sessions of the Supreme Soviet in its 130-metre (430 ft) wide and 100-metre (330 ft) tall grand hall seating over 20,000 people.

1881 – Alexei Rykov, Russian politician, Premier of Russia (d. 1938) 1883 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981) 1885 – Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 1969) 1888 – John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)

Early life. Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was born on 19 November 1875 to a peasant family of ethnic Russian origin in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa (Верхняя Троица), Tver Governorate, Russia. He was the elder brother of Fedor Kalinin.. Kalinin finished his education at a local school in 1889 and worked for a time on a farm. He moved to Saint Petersburg, where he found employment ...

External links. The Case of Bucharin Transcript of Bukharin's testimonies and last plea from the trial; “The Case of the Anti-Soviet Block of Rights and Trotskyites”, Red Star Press, 1973, page 369-439, 767-779; The Trial of the 21 Editors, New International, April 1938; analysis of the trial of Bukharin, Rykov et al. Analysis of the trials from perspective of the Socialist Workers Party (US).

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (né Rozenfeld; 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.. Born in Moscow to parents who were both involved in revolutionary politics, Kamenev attended Imperial Moscow University before becoming a revolutionary himself, joining the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party …

Биография Детство и юность. Родился пятым ребёнком в семье крестьянина Ивана Ильича Рыкова, переселенца из слободы Кукарка Яранского уезда Вятской губернии (позднее в составе Нижегородской губернии).

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Alexei Rykov; Andrei Bubnov; Grigori Sokolnikov; György Lukács; Amadeo Bordiga; Ho Chi Minh; Antonio Gramsci; Kwame Nkrumah; Theoretical works. What Is to Be Done? Materialism and Empirio-criticism; Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism; The State and Revolution; History and Class Consciousness; History.

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (6 December [O.S. 23 November] 1901 – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union.However, at the insistence of the rest of the Presidium, he relinquished control over the party apparatus in exchange for remaining Premier and first among equals within the Soviet …

The Socialist Revolutionary Party, or the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (the SRs, СР, or Esers, эсеры, esery; Russian: Партия социалистов-революционеров, ПСР), was a major political party in late Imperial Russia, and both phases of the Russian Revolution and early Soviet Russia.. The SRs were agrarian socialists and supporters of a democratic ...