Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

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Also Known As	Feliks Dzierżyński
Born	September 11, 1877 • Minsk • Belarus
Died	July 20, 1926 (aged 48) • Moscow • Russia
Political Affiliation	Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Role In	Russian Revolution • Russo-Polish War • Battle of Warsaw

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Vladimir Lenin

prime minister of Soviet Union

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Russian revolutionary

Lev Kamenev

Lev Kamenev

Soviet government official

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Soviet politician

Andrey Sergeyevich Bubnov

Soviet official

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

premier of Soviet Union

Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhaylovich

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov

Soviet statesman

Lavrenty Beria

Lavrenty Beria

Soviet government official

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

premier of Soviet Union

Nikolay Bukharin

Nikolay Bukharin

Soviet political leader

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich.

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich

Soviet official

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

Soviet statesman

Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov

Soviet official

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Soviet military officer

Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov

prime minister of Soviet Union

Bulganin, Nikolay Aleksandrovich

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin

premier of Soviet Union

Yury Andropov

Yury Andropov

president of Soviet Union

Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny

Soviet general and politician

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov

foreign minister of Soviet Union