# Ten Days That Shook the World — Character guide

> Key figures in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

- [John Reed](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/john_reed.md): American journalist and narrator who witnesses and reports on the Russian Revolution.
- [Vladimir Lenin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/lenin.md): Leader of the Bolshevik Party and chief architect of the October Revolution.
- [Leon Trotsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/trotsky.md): Bolshevik leader and chairman of the Petrograd Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee.
- [Alexander Kerensky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kerensky.md): Head of the Provisional Government overthrown by the Bolsheviks in October 1917.
- [General Lavr Kornilov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kornilov.md): Russian general who led an abortive coup against the Provisional Government.
- [Julius Martov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/martov.md): Leader of the Menshevik Internationalists and opponent of the Bolshevik seizure of power.
- [Maria Spiridonova](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/spiridonova.md): Leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and a prominent revolutionary figure.
- [Boris Kamkov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kamkov.md): Left Socialist Revolutionary leader who briefly allied with the Bolsheviks.
- [Victor Tchernov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/tchernov.md): Leader of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and Minister of Agriculture in the Provisional Government.
- [General Nikolai Dukhonin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/dukhonin.md): Russian general and last commander-in-chief of the Russian Army before the Bolsheviks.
- [Lev Kamenev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kameniev.md): Bolshevik leader and early member of the Soviet government.
- [Grigory Zinoviev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/zinoviev.md): Bolshevik leader and close associate of Lenin during the revolution.
- [Nikolai Krylenko](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/krylenko.md): Bolshevik military commander and later Commissar for War.
- [Pavel Dybenko](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/dybenko.md): Bolshevik sailor and commander of the Red Guards during the revolution.
- [Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/antonov_ovseenko.md): Bolshevik leader who helped lead the storming of the Winter Palace.
- [Anatoly Lunacharsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/lunatcharsky.md): Bolshevik Commissar of Education and cultural figure.
- [Alexei Rykov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/rykov.md): Bolshevik leader and later Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.
- [Viktor Nogin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/nogin.md): Bolshevik leader and Commissar for Trade and Industry.
- [Paul Miliukov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/miliukov.md): Leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party and former Foreign Minister.
- [Matvei Skobelev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/skobeliev.md): Menshevik leader and Minister of Labor in the Provisional Government.
- [Mikhail Tereshchenko](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/terestchenko.md): Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government.
- [Alexei Kaledin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kaledin.md): Cossack ataman and leader of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Don region.
- [General Pyotr Krasnov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/krasnov.md): Cossack general who led Kerensky's attempt to retake Petrograd.
- [Nikolai Avksentiev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/avksentiev.md): Socialist Revolutionary leader and chairman of the Pre-Parliament.
- [Fyodor Dan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/dan.md): Menshevik leader and prominent figure in the Soviet of Workers' Deputies.
- [Abram Gotz](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/gotz.md): Socialist Revolutionary leader and member of the Committee for Salvation.
- [Mikhail Uritsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/uritzky.md): Bolshevik leader and head of the Petrograd Cheka.
- [Alexander Shliapnikov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/shliapnikov.md): Bolshevik leader and Commissar for Labor.
- [Yakov Sverdlov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/sverdlov.md): Bolshevik leader and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
- [Maxim Gorky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/gorky.md): Famous Russian writer and critic of the Bolsheviks during the revolution.
- [Georgi Plekhanov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/plekhanov.md): Father of Russian Marxism and critic of Lenin's tactics.
- [Vladimir Karelin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/karelin.md): Left Socialist Revolutionary leader and Commissar in the early Soviet government.
- [Grigory Schreider](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/schreider.md): Mayor of Petrograd and Socialist Revolutionary.
- [Alexander Konovalov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/konovalov.md): Vice-Premier of the Provisional Government and Minister of Trade.
- [Nikolai Kishkin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kishkin.md): Minister of State Welfare in the Provisional Government.
- [Sergei Prokopovich](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/prokopovitch.md): Minister of Supply in the Provisional Government.
- [Vasily Shulgin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/shulgin.md): Conservative politician and member of the Duma.
- [Mikhail Rodzianko](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/rodzianko.md): Chairman of the Duma and a leading figure in the February Revolution.
- [Irakli Tsereteli](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/tseretelli.md): Menshevik leader and Minister of Posts in the Provisional Government.
- [Alexei Nikitin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/nikitin.md): Menshevik and Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.
- [General Alexander Verkhovsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/verkhovsky.md): Minister of War in the Provisional Government.
- [Boris Savinkov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/savinkov.md): Socialist Revolutionary and former terrorist, later anti-Bolshevik.
- [Vladimir Purishkevich](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/purishkevitch.md): Right-wing monarchist politician and conspirator against the Bolsheviks.
- [V. Volodarsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/volodarsky.md): Bolshevik leader and editor of the Red Gazette.
- [Grigory Petrovsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/petrovsky.md): Bolshevik leader and Commissar for Internal Affairs.
- [Vladimir Miliutin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/miliutin.md): Bolshevik leader and Commissar for Agriculture.
- [Yuri Larin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/larin.md): Bolshevik economist and member of the Soviet government.
- [Solomon Lozovsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/lozovsky.md): Bolshevik trade union leader and later Commissar.
- [Andrei Shingarev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/shingariov.md): Minister of Finance in the Provisional Government.
- [Colonel Riabtsev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/riabtsev.md): Commander of the Moscow Military District during the Bolshevik uprising.
- [Colonel Polkovnikov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/polkovnikov.md): Commander of the Petrograd Military District under Kerensky.
- [Colonel Mikhail Muraviov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/muraviov.md): Russian officer who served both the Provisional Government and Bolsheviks.
- [Khanjunov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/khanjunov.md): A figure mentioned in the revolutionary events.
- [Boris Avilov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/avilov.md): Menshevik Internationalist and editor of Novaya Zhizn.
- [General Vasily Gurko](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/gurko.md): Russian general and commander during World War I.
- [Vladimir Burtsev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/burtzev.md): Revolutionary and publisher who exposed police agents.
- [Pyotr Palchinsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/paltchinsky.md): Engineer and member of the Provisional Government's economic council.
- [Varlam Avanessov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/avanessov.md): Bolshevik leader and secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
- [Vera Slutskaya](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/slutskaya.md): Bolshevik activist and participant in the revolution.
- [Albert Rhys Williams](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/williams.md): American journalist and eyewitness to the Russian Revolution.
- [Mr. A. J. Sack](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/sack.md): American correspondent covering the revolution.
- [Sir George Buchanan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/buchanan.md): British ambassador to Russia during the revolution.
- [General Zankievitch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/zankievitch.md): Russian general involved in the defense of the Winter Palace.
- [General Alexander Dutov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/dutov.md): Cossack ataman and anti-Bolshevik leader in the Urals.
- [Anatoly Neratov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/neratov.md): Deputy Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government.
- [Baklanov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/baklanov.md): A figure mentioned in the revolutionary narrative.
- [Kharash](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/kharash.md): A participant in the revolutionary events.
- [Seichass](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/seichass.md): A figure mentioned in the context of the revolution.
- [Captain Gomberg](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/gomberg.md): A military officer mentioned in the narrative.
- [Mykola Skrypnyk](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/skripnik.md): Bolshevik leader and later Commissar for Nationalities.
- [Rafael Abramovitch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/abramovitch.md): Menshevik leader and member of the Soviet.
- [Lev Khinchuk](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/khintchuk.md): Menshevik leader and chairman of the Moscow Soviet.
- [Mikhail Lieber](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/lieber.md): Menshevik leader and member of the Central Executive Committee.
- [Ivan Pavlovitch](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/ivan_pavlovitch.md): A soldier or figure mentioned in the revolutionary events.
- [Bill Shatov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/shatov.md): An American anarchist who fought with the Bolsheviks.
- [Stepan Georgevitch Morovsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/morovsky.md): A figure mentioned in the revolutionary context.
- [Countess Sofia Panina](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/panina.md): A philanthropist and member of the Provisional Government.
- [Commissar Rapp](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/rapp.md): A Bolshevik commissar mentioned in the narrative.
- [G. Yatmanov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/characters/yatmanov.md): A figure mentioned in the revolutionary events.

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