>first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_family >mostly notable as the immediate ancestry of the maternal grandfather of Vladimir Lenin according to various published researchers who suggest that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish convert to Christianity (Alexander Blank).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky >he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army, with the title of People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He became a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–1923). >Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian Jewish family, of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, in Ukraine)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zinoviev >(born Hirsch Apfelbaum) Gregory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), to Jewish dairy farmers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_family >The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment – notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov – were shot, bayoneted and clubbed to death
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Yurovsky >(real name and patronymic Yankel Khaimovich) was a Russian Old Bolshevik best known as the chief executioner of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family, and four retainers on the night of 16 July 1918. >The Yurovsky family is of Jewish origin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Sverdlov >was a Bolshevik party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. >A number of sources claim that Sverdlov played a major role in the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family on 17 July 1918. >Sverdlov was born in Nizhny Novgorod as Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov to Jewish parents Mikhail Izrailevich Sverdlov and Elizaveta Solomonova.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipp_Goloshchyokin >He is known for taking part in the murder of the Romanov family and for the devastating role in Sovietization of Kazakhstan (Small October) which resulted in a deadly famine in Kazakhstan of 1932–33, which took between 1 and 2 million lives and is known in Kazakhstan as "the Goloshchekin genocide" >Born 9 March 1876 in Nevel to a family of Jewish contractors, his true birth name is unknown, in various sources, Isai (Yiddish: Shaya or Shai) and Isak, Isayevich, Isaakovich, Itskovich are indicated as real names.
Lucas Anderson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Aschberg >was a Swedish banker and businessman. Aschberg was a leftist sympathizer and helped finance the Bolsheviks in Russia. In gratitude, the Bolshevik government allowed Aschberg to do business with Soviet Union during the 1920s. In 1922, Aschberg founded Roskombank, the first Soviet international bank. >Due to his Jewish background he was endangered when France was invaded by Nazi Germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff > was a Jewish-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. Among many other things, he helped finance the expansion of American railroads and the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. >Historian George F. Kennan noted that Schiff helped finance revolutionary propaganda during the Russo-Japanese war and revolution of 1905, through the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom. >The Jewish Communal Register of New York City stated that "Mr. Schiff has always used his wealth and his influence in the best interests of his people. He financed the enemies of autocratic Russia and used his financial influence to keep Russia from the money markets of the United States." schiffnaturepreserve.org/JacobSchiffEssay.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer >was an American business manager and owner, most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran from 1957 until his death, though he was known as well for his art collection, his philanthropy, and for his close ties to the Soviet Union. >Hammer was born in New York City, to Jewish parents who immigrated from then Russian Empire.
Adrian Gonzalez
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Ganetsky > as a prominent Old Bolshevik and close associate of Vladimir Lenin, famous as one of the financial wizards who arranged, through his close working relationship with Alexander Parvus, the secret German funding that saved the Bolsheviks. After the October Revolution of 1917, Ganetsky served as Chief Soviet banker > Yakov Ganetsky was born in Warsaw, then in the Russian Empire, into the family of a Jewish factory owner.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parvus > was a Marxist theoretician, revolutionary, and a controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. > Parvus' detailed plan recommended the division of Russia by sponsoring the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, encouraging ethnic separatists in various Russian regions, and supporting various writers whose criticism of Tsarism continued during wartime. Basing himself on his 1905 experiences, Parvus theorised that the division of Russia and its loss in the First World War was the best way to bring about a socialist revolution. > Israel Lazarevich Gelfand was born to an ethnic Jewish family on September 8, 1867 in the shtetl of Berazino, Russian Empire, now part of Belarus.
Brandon Myers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei_Uritsky >was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was Chief of Cheka of Petrograd City. >Uritsky was born in the city of Cherkasy, Kiev Governorate, to a Litvak family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Unszlicht >Józef Unszlicht was a Bolshevik revolutionary activist, one of the founders of the Cheka, and Soviet government official of Polish-Jewish extraction from the Masovian region. Unschlicht participated in and in fact initiated some of the worst excesses of the Bolshevik revolution including mass murders of political opponents.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Kun >born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician who was the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Following the fall of the Hungarian revolution, Kun emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he worked as a functionary in the Communist International bureaucracy as the head of the Crimean Revolutionary Committee from 1920. He was an organizer and an active participant of the Red Terror in Crimea (1920-1921). >His father was a lapsed Jewish village notary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Lozovsky > was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary >Born in 1878 in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of Ukraine of Russian Jewish parents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kameneva >was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. She was the sister of Leon Trotsky and the first wife of Lev Kamenev.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Radek >was a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and an international Communist leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution. >Radek was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv in Ukraine), as Karol Sobelsohn, to a Jewish Litvak family
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Borodin >was the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg, a prominent Comintern agent. >Borodin was born in a Jewish family in Yanovich, located in modern Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Dimanstein >played a significant role during the Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917. >Dimanstein was born in Sebezh, Vitebsk Governorate (today Pskov Oblast) in a Litvak family of a trader.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Volodarsky >was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. >Moisei Markovich Goldstein (later V. Volodarsky) was born to an ethnic Jewish family in Ostropol, in the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Riazanov >was a political revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, and archivist. >David Borisovich Goldendakh was born 10 March 1870 to a Jewish father and a Russian mother in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire.
Jace Peterson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Trepper > was born to a Jewish family on February 23, 1904, in Nowy Targ, Poland (part of Austria-Hungary in that time). >Trepper escaped to Moscow and worked as a GRU agent for the next six years, traveling between Moscow and Paris.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Shatskin >was Soviet and international Communist functionary, one of the founders of Komsomol. >He was born to a wealthy Jewish family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Piatnitsky >born Iosif Aronovich Tarshis, was a Russian revolutionary. >Iosif Aronovich Tarshis was born January 17, 1882, the son of an ethnic Jewish carpenter in the town of Vilkomir (today known as Ukmergė),
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Zelensky >was a Russian politician. In 1929 he was briefly Secretary General of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. >Isaak Zelensky was born in 1890 in Saratov as the son of a simple Jewish family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_Axelrod >Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod (born Emther Axelrod), was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist philosopher and an art theoretician. >Axelrod was born in the family of a rabbi in Vilenkovichi, a village in the Vilna gubernia of the Russian Empire, now in Pastavy Raion, Belarus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda >Yagoda supervised the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using slave labor from the GULAG system, during which many laborers died. >Yagoda supervised the deportations, confiscations, mass arrests and executions that accompanied the forced collectivisation, and was one of people responsible for Holodomor which resulted in deaths of 2.4 to 7.5 million people. >Yagoda was born in Rybinsk into a Jewish family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich >was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He is known for helping Stalin seize power, for his role in the Soviet famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine, and for his harsh treatment and execution of those deemed threats to Stalin's regime. >Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftaly_Frenkel > was a Jewish Russian businessman and member of the Soviet secret police. Frenkel is best known for his role in the organisation of work in the Gulag, starting from the forced labor camp of the Solovetsky Islands, which is recognised as one of the earliest sites of the Gulag.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvei_Berman >was a Soviet intelligence officer and head of the GULAG Soviet prison camp system from 1932 to 1937. >Berman was born in Andiranovka, Chita, Transbaikal Oblast, the son of a Jewish brickyard owner.
Nicholas Price
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pauker >was an NKVD officer and head of Joseph Stalin's personal security >Pauker came from a Jewish family in Lviv, which was then part of Austria-Hungary.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kogan >was a Soviet secret police (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD) high functionary. >He was the son of a wealthy Jewish merchant.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Slutsky >headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD, from May 1935 to February 1938. >Slutsky was born in 1898 into the family of a Jewish railroad worker in a Ukrainian village, Parafievka, in the Chernihiv region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Spigelglas >was acting head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service, then part of the NKVD, from February to June 1938. >Spigelglas was born into the family of a Jewish bookkeeper in Mosty in present-day Hrodna Voblast, Belarus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zborowski >was an anthropologist and an NKVD agent. He was the NKVD's most valuable mole inside the Trotskyist organization in Paris during the 1930s and in New York during the 1940s. > Zborowski was one of four children born into a Jewish family in Uman, near Cherkasy, in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Orlov_(Soviet_defector) >was a General in the Soviet secret police and NKVD Rezident in the Second Spanish Republic. >He was born Lev Lazarevich Feldbin in the Belarusian town of Babruysk on August 21, 1895 to an Orthodox Jewish family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kaganovich > was a Soviet politician. He was the older brother of Lazar Kaganovich. He was born in Kiev Governorate. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1905.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polina_Zhemchuzhina >was a Soviet politician and the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. >Zhemchuzhina was born Perl Semyonovna Karpovskaya to the family of a Jewish tailor in the village of Polohy, in the Aleksandrov uyezd of Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yefim_Fomin >was a Soviet political commissar. >Fomin was born into a Jewish family in Kolyshki in Vitebsk Governorate (present-day Liozna Raion, Belarus) in 1909.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Mekhlis > was a Soviet politician > Mekhlis was born in Odessa. He finished six classes of Jewish commercial school. He worked as a schoolteacher in 1904-1911. In 1907–1910 he was a member of the Zionist workers movement Poale Zion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Yakir >was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. > Yakir was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, into the prosperous family of a Jewish pharmacist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Shtern >was a Soviet officer in the Red Army and military advisor during the Spanish Civil War. He also served with distinction during the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars and the Winter War. >Shtern was born into a Jewish family in Smila, Kiev Governorate in 1900.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg >was a Polish-Jewish Marxist theorist, feminist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist who became a naturalized German citizen at the age of 28. She was, successively, a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eisner >was a journalist and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organised the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918. >Kurt Eisner was born in Berlin on 14 May 1867, to Emanuel Eisner and Hedwig Levenstein, both Jewish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levi >was a German Communist and Social Democratic political leader. >Paul Levi was born 11 March 1883 in Hechingen in Hohenzollern Province to a well-to-do Jewish merchant family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mehring >In 1916 the left-wing Marxist revolutionary Spartacus League was founded and Mehring was one of its main leaders alongside Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. >the son of a Jewish bourgeois family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Jogiches >was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. >Lev Jogiches was born to a wealthy ethnic Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian empire, on June 17, 1867.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Toller >Together with leading anarchists, such as B. Traven and Gustav Landauer, and communists, Toller was involved in the short-lived 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic. >Toller was born in 1893 into a Jewish family in Samotschin (Szamocin), Province of Posen, Prussia (Posen is now part of Poland).
Sebastian Brown
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Mühsam >He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic. >The third child born to Siegfried Seligmann Mühsam, a middle-class Jewish pharmacist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Barth >was a Jewish German Social Democratic party worker who became a key figure in the German Revolution of 1918.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer > was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist. In 1919, during the German Revolution, he was briefly Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. >Landauer was the second child of Jewish parents Rosa (Neuberger) and Herman Landauer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Leviné >was a German communist revolutionary and leader of the short-lived Bavarian Council Republic. >Leviné was born in St. Petersburg into the Jewish merchant family Julius and Rozalia (née Goldberg).
Jose Foster
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mátyás_Rákosi >was a Hungarian communist politician. He was born Mátyás Rosenfeld in Ada, present-day Serbia. He was the leader of Hungary's Communist Party from 1945 to 1956 — first as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party (1945–1948) and later holding the same post with the Hungarian Working People's Party (1948–1956). As such, from 1949 to 1956, he was the de facto ruler of Communist Hungary. An ardent Stalinist, his government was very loyal to the Soviet Union. >Born to Jewish parents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moša_Pijade >was a prominent Serbianand Yugoslav communist, a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito >Pijade was of Sephardic Jewish parentage.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Różański > was a communist in the prewar Second Polish Republic, a member of the Soviet NKVD and later, a colonel in the Stalinist Ministry of Public Security of Poland. Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Minc > was a communist politician in Stalinist Poland and a pro-Soviet Marxist economist. >Minc was born into the middle-class Jewish family of Oskar Minc and Stefania née Fajersztajn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Berman >was a prominent communist in prewar Poland. >Jakub Berman was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Warsaw in on 26 December 1901.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Brystiger >was a Polish Communist activist and member of the security apparatus in Stalinist Poland. >Brystiger was the daughter of a Jewish pharmacist from Stryj (now Ukraine).
James Fisher
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Kevin Davis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Romkowski >was a Polish communist official of Jewish background trained by Comintern in Moscow, who changed his name and settled into Warsaw after the Soviet takeover, and became second in command (the deputy minister) in Berman's Ministry of Public Security (MBP) during the late 1940s and early 1950s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Fejgin > was a Polish-Jewish communist before World War II, and after 1949, commander of the Stalinist political police at the Ministry of Public Security of Poland
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Światło >was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Public Security of Poland (MBP) who served as deputy director of the 10th Department run by Anatol Fejgin. >Józef Światło was born on 1 January 1915 as Izaak Fleischfarb into a Jewish family in Medyn village near Zbarazh in Galicia (now Ukraine).
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Czaplicki >officer of the security apparatus of People's Poland , officer ( colonel ) of the People's Army of Poland , member of the National Security Commission >He was born in a family of Jewish origin .
Austin Green
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crook >was a British-born Communist ideologue, activist and spy, long resident in China. A committed Marxist from 1931, he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), then was recruited by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, and was sent to Chinaduring the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). > "My father was a Jewish cockney Royalist, raised in the East End of London, by immigrant parents who fled Czarist Russia to avoid anti-Semitism and conscription into a pork-eating army," wrote Crook in his autobiography.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein >was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author. He was one of the few foreign-born Chinese citizens of non-Chinese origin to become a member of the Communist Party of China. >Israel Epstein was born on 20 April 1915 in Warsaw to Jewish parents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Rosenfeld > more commonly known as General Luo, served as the Minister of Health in the 1947 Provisional Communist Military Government of China under Mao Zedong. >Rosenfeld, a Jew born in Lemberg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Lviv, Ukraine)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg >is an American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the war, and was with these central Communist leaders at Yan'an. He witnessed first-hand much of what occurred at upper levels of the CCP and knew many of its leaders personally. >Rittenberg was born into a Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina
Carson Hall
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