Key People in Russia 1917-

Karl Marx

• Wrote the communist manifesto (1848)

• Influential communist thinker

Aleksandr Kerensky

• Only member to sit in both the provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet

• Became Prime Minister after Prince Lvov’s resignation

• Fled after Oct Revolution

Prince Lvov

• Originally head of the zemstas, but became head of the Prov Gov in (…)

• Resigned in … after Milyukov’s ‘war to victory’ comments spark protest

Rodzianko

Chairman of the 4th Duma

Sent telegram to Tsar on 24th of Feb warning him about the worsening situation in Petrograd

Guchkov

• Leader of the Octobrists

• Minister of War in Prov Gov

• Resigned with Milyukov after ‘war till victory’ comments

Milyukov

• Founded the Kadets (1905)

• Foreign Minister in Provisional Gov

• 5th May pledged to continue WW1 till victory

• Forced to resign along with Lvov and Guchov.

Trotsky

• Leading Bolshevik

• Founded St Petersburg Soviet 1905

• Returned to Russia May 1917

• Chared Petrograd soviet + organised Military Revolutionary Committee (used to plan Oct Rev)

Chernov

• Leader of SRs

• Minister of Agriculture in Prov Gov

Kamenev

• Bolshevik - moderate

• Edited Pravda - against Lenin’s April thesis

• Voted against armed uprising in Oct 1917 (prefered a coalition with the socialists)

• Joined Lenin’s gov

• Negotiated Brest-Litovsk with Trotsky in 1918

• Executed in 1936 (show trial)

Djugashvily

• Stalin

• Repeatedly exiled to siberia

Lenin

• Leader of the Bolsheviks

• In exile for 17 years

• 3rd April returned + published April thesis

Chkheidze

• Social Democrat

• President of Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet

• Disagreed with lenin (wanted WW1 to continue)

• Exiled by Bolsheviks in 1921

Zinoviev

• Bolshevik

• Supported Kamnev against Oct Revolution

• Head of Petrograd Bolsheviks

• Executed by Stalin 1936

Dzerzinsky

• Bolshevik

• reputation for loyalty to Lenin

• Revolutionary Military Committee

• December 1917 made head of Cheka