Old Bolsheviks

founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)

Soviet diplomat (1872-1952)

Russian revolutionary and politician (1869-1939)

Soviet politician and NKVD police chief

Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)

Soviet politician (1875–1946)

Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)

Russian author (1884–1937)

Soviet marshal and politician

Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895–1978)

Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)

Ukrainian revolutionary (1883-1936)

Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)

Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883–1936)

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)

Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer (1875–1933)

political party in the Russian Empire

Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs

Soviet army officer (1885–1925)

NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)

Soviet politician (1893–1991)

Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)

Soviet politician (1895–1975)

Soviet politician (1896-1948)

Soviet politician (1886-1937)

Soviet marshal (1889–1938)

Soviet marshal (1897–1968)

Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)

Soviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)

Soviet politician

French communist politician, editor

Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)

Russian revolutionary (1885-1939)

Soviet politician (1888-1935)

Red Army commander (1887–1919)

Soviet politician (1873-1966)

Soviet diplomat (1883-1927)

Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary (1878–1918)

Soviet poet (1883–1945)

Soviet politician, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1888–1970)

Russian revolutionary (1870-1926)

Soviet diplomat (1883-1938)

Soviet diplomat (1888-1939)

Soviet diplomat (1873-1941)

Soviet politician (1873-1918)

Prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader/diplomat (1883-1938)

Russian historian (1868–1932)

Soviet politician (1880-1936)

Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser (1885-1938)

Russian economist and politician (1886–1937)

Soviet Ukrainian politician (1890-1937)

Soviet admiral (1889-1938)

Soviet military commander (1896–1937)

Soviet diplomat (1892-1939)

Soviet politician (1886-1925)

Russian-Soviet political revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, and archivist