Russia convulsed and its revolutions and violence reverberated throughout the world before and during WWI

Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister 1911

Alexander Kolchak

Anton Denikin

Alexandar Bogdanov

Mikhail Rodzianko, 4th Duma

Nicholai Ruzsky

Tzarina Alexandra Feodorovna

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich

Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich

Joseph Stalin

Between the wars, Stalin rose to power and famine and death raged as he purged the Soviet Union of old-time Bolsheviks.

Nikolai Bukharin

Vyacheslav Molotov

Joseph Stalin

Alexei Rykov, Soviet Union Premier

Noe Schordania, leader of the Menshevik Party

Anton Denikin

Lev Kamenev, leader of the Oppositionists

Grigori Zinoviev

Lavrentiy Beria

Yakov Saulovich Agranov