Torez Maurice (28/04/1900 – 07/11/1964), figure of the French and international workers' and communist movement. He was born in a miner. Before 1920 worked as a farmhand, a miner. In March 1919 joined the Socialist Party, was actively involved in the struggle for its adherence to the Comintern. (more…)

Mann, Tom (15/04/1856 – 03/13/1941), figure of the British labor movement. In 1866 – 1870 worked in the mines since 1870 ironworker. Active leader of the Social Democratic Federation (founded in 1884). One of the organizers of the London dockers' strike (in 1889), in 1890 – 1893 Chairman (more…)

Axelrod Love Isaakovna (1868 – 05/02/1946) – The Russian philosopher and literary critic.

From 1884 to the revolutionary movement. In 1887 – 1906 lived in exile, which in 1892 became a Marxist group "Emancipation of Labour". (more…)

Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhailovich (22.05 (03.06) .1885 – 3.16.1919), figure of the Communist Party and Soviet State. A member of the Communist Party since 1901. Born in the family of an artisan-engraver. Since 1900 worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy; spread propaganda among the workers and Kanavin Sormovo. In 1901, he was arrested (more…)

Trotsky, Lev Davidovich (pseudonym's real name – Bronstein) (11/07/1879 – 08/21/1940) was born on November 7, 1879 in Kherson province in the country Yanivka. His father was a rather large tenant. Trotsky, he graduated from Technical High School, (more…)

Shelepin Alexander (1918 – 1994) – Member of the Presidium (the Politburo), the CPSU Central Committee (1964 – 1975), secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1961 – 1967), a member of the CPSU Central Committee (1952 – 1975) was born in 1918 in Voronezh; Party member since 1940 and in 1941 graduated from the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy (more…)

Bibikov Alexander Ilyich (30.05 (10.06) .1729 – 09 (20) .04.1774), Russian statesman, a commander in chief.

He began military service in 1746, moved to the Seven Years War 1756-63.

In 1767, chairman of the commission to compile Ulozhenie 1767.

He is famous as cruel Suppressor of popular movements. (more…)

Kosygin, Alexei Nikolayevich (08 (21) .02.1904), leader of the Communist Party and Soviet state, a member of the Politburo. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. A member of the Communist Party since 1927. Born in a working class family-turner.

Fifteen-boys volunteered for the Red Army, served in its ranks in 1919-21. After (more…)

Podvoisky Nikolay Ilyich (04 (16) .02.1880 – 07.28.1948), Soviet politician and military leader. A member of the Communist Party since 1901. Born to a teacher. From 1894 he studied at the Chernigov Theological Seminary, in 1898 participated in the revolutionary movement in 1901 expelled from the seminary, and in 1901-05 (more…)

Said Anatoly Fedorovich (22/07/1940). Chairperson Ryazan oblast council of trade unions since 1986, born July 22, 1940 in the village clamp Korablinsky region Ryazan region; graduated from the Ryazan Extramural Polytechnic Institute in 1968 and absentee College; worked in a factory eam senior (more…)