Flashcards: Russian communists

Victor Serge (French: [viktɔʁ sɛʁʒ]), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), was a Russian revolutionary and writer.

Victor S. Yarros (1865–1956) was an American anarchist, lawyer, and author.

Alexei Ivanovich Hegai (Russian: Алексей Иванович Хегай, Korean: 허가이; 18 March 1908 – 2 July 1953), also known as Ho Ka-i, was a Soviet political operative in North Korea (DPRK) and leader of the Soviet Korean faction within the early political structure of North Korea.

Sergei Stanislavovich Udaltsov (Russian: Серге́й Станиславович Удальцов; born 16 February 1977) is a Russian political activist.

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Russian: Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meiergold; 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.

Vladisláv Ýurevitch Ryazántsev (Russian: Владисла́в Ю́рьевич Ряза́нцев; born 20 October 1986) is a Russian left-wing politician and one of leader of the Left Block movement, earlier - one of leader of the Left Front movement.

Ivan Timofeevich Fioletov Иван Тимофеевич Фиолетов (1884 - 20 September 1918) was a Russian Communist activist, one of the Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution.

Lev Lvovich Sedov (Russian: Лев Львович Седов, also known as Leon Sedov; 1906 – February 16, 1938) was the son of the Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova.

Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov (Russian: Э́вальд Васи́льевич Илье́нков; 18 February 1924 – 21 March 1979) was a Marxist author and Soviet philosopher.

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Russian: Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник, pronounced [mʲɪxɐˈil məɪˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ bɐˈtvʲinʲnʲɪk]; August 17 [O.S. August 4] 1911 – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.

Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev (Russian: Илья́ Влади́мирович Пономарёв; born 6 August 1975 in Moscow) is a Russian politician, former member of the State Duma and a technology entrepreneur.

Sergey Yustinovich Bagotsky (Russian: Серге́й Юстинович Багоцкий; 15 February 1879 - 15 March 1953) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Soviet medicine and Red Cross diplomat, Soviet head of the Red Cross representative mission to Geneva from 1918 to 1936.

Yuri Gaven is a Latvian revolutionary of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, chekist, key figure in defeating of the Crimean People's Republic (with establishment of the so-called Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic) and active participant of the "Red Terror" in Crimea.

Yevgeny Yakovlevich Dzhugashvili (Russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Джугашви́ли) (born 10 January 1936) is a retired Soviet Air Force colonel.

Natalia Yakovlevna Magnat (Russian: Ната́лья Я́ковлевна Магна́т, November 5, 1954, Moscow – October 18, 1997, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian translator of English language, author of works on literary criticism and aesthetics, leader of underground leftist organizations "Left School" (Russian: Левая школа) and "Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union" (NCPSU) (Russian: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза (НКПСС)).

She was born in Sinelnikovo, a Korean village in Siberia.

Viktor Anpilov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Анпи́лов; born 1945, in Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Krai) is a Russian hardline Communist politician and trade unionist.

Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (Russian: Бори́с Ю́льевич Кагарли́цкий; born 29 August 1958 in Moscow) is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia.

Ivan Melnikov (Russian: Иван Мельников) (born in 1950) is a Russian politician, vice-Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, First Vice Chairman of the State Duma.

Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Тара́сов, born March 8, 1958 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian left-wing sociologist, politologist, culturologist, publicist, writer, and philosopher.

Ben Boloff (1893–1932) was a Soviet Russian communist who lived in Portland, Oregon.

Beness Aijo (Russian: Бенес Айо, born 8 June 1979 in Rēzekne, Latvian SSR) is a UK-based Latvian citizen and an activist of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), and the Korean Friendship Association-UK.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15 [O.S. April 3] 1894 – September 11, 1971) was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.