Key Figures of the
Russian Revolution
Alexander Kerensky
• Prime Minister of the
Russian Provisional
Government
• Supported Russia’s
involvement in World War I
after the February
Revolution of 1917
• Was ousted by the
Bolsheviks
• Escaped from Russia to
France
• Supported neither side
during the Russian Civil War
Vladimir Lenin
• Leader of the Bolsheviks
• Led the October Revolution of
1917 and the Bolshevik
Government
• Established CHEKA
(Extraordinary Commission –
secret police)
• Red Terror and War
Communism
• Civil War and NEP (New
Economic Policy)
• Dream of World Revolution
Leon Trotsky
• Second in Command during
the October Revolution of
1917
• Formerly led the
Mensheviks
• Founder and leader of the
Red Army
• Opposed Stalin and his
policies
• Assassinated by Stalin’s
agents in Mexico, 1940
Felix Dzerhinsky
• Known as “Iron Felix”
• First Director of the
Bolshevik Secret Police
(Cheka, later KGB, now
FSB)
• Led persecution of
political opposition
during the Red Terror
and the Russian Civil
War
Joseph Stalin
• One of the leaders of the
October Revolution of 1917
• Leader of the Soviet Union
and the Communist Part
from 1924 to 1953
• Succeeded Lenin
• Replaced NEP with FiveYear Plans (rapid,
government-planned
industrialization)
• “Socialism in one country”
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