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Also Known As Aleksandr Izrail Lazarevich Gelfand • Parvus
Born September 8, 1867 • Russia
Died December 12, 1924 (aged 57) • Berlin • Germany
Role In Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Russian revolutionary
Aleksandr Kerensky
Aleksandr Kerensky
prime minister of Russia
Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev
Soviet government official
Nikolay Bukharin
Nikolay Bukharin
Soviet political leader
Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhaylovich
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov
Soviet statesman
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Russian revolutionary
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Soviet politician
Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny
Soviet general and politician
Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov
Russian politician
Andrey Sergeyevich Bubnov
Soviet official
Catherine II
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Rashid Sunyaev
Russian-German astrophysicist
Leonty Leontyevich, count von Bennigsen
Russian general
Alexandra, empress of Russia
Alexandra
empress consort of Russia
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Egor Frantsevich, Count Kankrin
Russian finance minister