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Authors’ note

Translators’ note

I. THE MAJOR FIGURES

Nikolay Ivanovich Bukharin

Lev Borisovich Kamenev

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov

Lev Davidovich Trotsky

Grigory Evseyevich Zinoviev

II. MEN OF OCTOBER

I. Early Bolsheviks

Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev

Andrey Sergeyevich Bubnov

Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar

Yakov Naumovich Drobnis

Pavel Efimovich Dybenko

Abel Safronovich Enukidze

Mikhail Vasilievich Frunze

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

Semyon Arshakovich Ter-Petrosyan (Kamo)

Sergey Mironovich Kirov

Stanislav Vinkentievich Kossior

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov

Nikolay Ivanovich Muralov

Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze

Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov

Nikolay Ilyich Podvoysky

Evgeny Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky

Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov

Leonid Petrovich Serebryakov

Aleksandr Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov

Benyamin Nikolayevich Kayurov

Nikolay Alekseyevich Skrypnik

Ivan Tenisovich Smilga

Ivan Nikitovich Smirnov

Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov

Lev Semyonovich Sosnovsky

Elena Dmitrievna Stasova

Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky

Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov

2. Former Dissidents

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (Malinovsky)

Solomon Abramovich Dridzo (Aleksandr Lozovsky)

Leonid Borisovich Krasin

Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky

Dmitri Zakharievich Manuilsky

Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov

3. Recruits from Other Parties, Other Lands

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseyenko

Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

Adolf Abramovich Ioffe

Aleksandra Mikhailovna Kollontai

Karl Bernhardovich Radek

Khristian Georgiyevich Rakovsky

Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky

Mikhail Solomonovich Uritsky

List of periodicals

Abbreviations, acronyms, organisations