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Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko

This person was the chief state prosecutor from the years 1918-31 and later was the people's commissar of justice, playing a central role in the analysis of how the Soviets' system of revolutionary justice developed.

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin

This Georgian-born person was the general secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union beginning in 1922 and became the cruel dictator of Russia.

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

This person was a prominent Communist Party official and economic theorist who became member of the Politburo in 1924 and general secretary of Comintern after 1926.

Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

This person was the first chief of the secret police, who inconveniently abolished capital punishment during the Churchmen trial in 1920.

Anatoly Ilyich Fastenko

This person is remembered as being a youthful 63 years old with lively eyebrows, a keeper of the old prison traditions and revolutions.

Georgi Kramarenko

This person is 53 and constantly trying...

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