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Key Figures of the Russian Revolution
Alexander Kerensky• Prime Minister of the
Russian Provisional Government
• Supported Russia’s involvement in World War I after the February Revolution of 1917
• Was ousted by the Bolsheviks
• Escaped from Russia to France
• Supported neither side during the Russian Civil War
Vladimir Lenin• Leader of the Bolsheviks• Led the October Revolution of
1917 and the Bolshevik Government
• Established CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission – secret police)
• Red Terror and War Communism
• Civil War and NEP (New Economic Policy)
• Dream of World Revolution
Leon Trotsky
• Second in Command during the October Revolution of 1917
• Formerly led the Mensheviks
• Founder and leader of the Red Army
• Opposed Stalin and his policies
• Assassinated by Stalin’s agents in Mexico, 1940
Felix Dzerhinsky
• Known as “Iron Felix”• First Director of the
Bolshevik Secret Police (Cheka, later KGB, now FSB)
• Led persecution of political opposition during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War
Joseph Stalin • One of the leaders of the
October Revolution of 1917• Leader of the Soviet Union
and the Communist Party from 1924 to 1953
• Succeeded Lenin• Replaced NEP with Five-
Year Plans (rapid, government-planned industrialization)
• “Socialism in one country”
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