# The Bolshevik Myth — Character guide

> Key figures in The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): The first-person narrator and focal character, likely the author.
- [Nestor Makhno](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/nestor_makhno.md): Ukrainian anarchist guerrilla leader who interacts with the narrator.
- [Lenin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/lenin.md): Bolshevik leader and central figure in the Soviet government.
- [Chicherin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/chicherin.md): Soviet diplomat and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
- [Zinoviev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/zinoviev.md): Prominent Bolshevik leader and head of the Petrograd Soviet.
- [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/peter_kropotkin.md): Famous anarchist thinker visited by the narrator in Moscow.
- [Karakhan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/karakhan.md): Soviet diplomat and deputy to Chicherin.
- [Alexander Berkman](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/alexander_berkman.md): Anarchist activist and companion of Emma Goldman.
- [Emma Goldman](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/emma_goldman.md): Anarchist writer and activist traveling with Berkman.
- [Trotsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/trotsky.md): Bolshevik leader and founder of the Red Army.
- [Kamenev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/kamenev.md): Bolshevik leader and chairman of the Moscow Soviet.
- [Lunacharsky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/lunacharsky.md): People's Commissar for Education and culture.
- [Angelica Balabanova](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/angelica_balabanova.md): Italian socialist and Comintern official.
- [Bertrand Russell](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/bertrand_russell.md): British philosopher visiting Soviet Russia.
- [Louise Bryant](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/louise_bryant.md): American journalist and wife of John Reed.
- [Jack Reed](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/jack_reed.md): American journalist and author of Ten Days That Shook the World.
- [Yossif](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/yossif.md): An emigrant and acquaintance of the narrator.
- [Moishe](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/moishe.md): A Jewish character encountered by the narrator.
- [Tovarish Karus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/tovarish_karus.md): A Bolshevik official encountered by the narrator.
- [Bill Shatov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/shatov.md): An American-born Bolshevik and engineer.
- [The Colonel](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/the_colonel.md): A military officer encountered by the narrator.
- [Big Samuel](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/big_samuel.md): A Jewish character encountered by the narrator.
- [D⸺](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/d.md): A young Bundist encountered by the narrator.
- [Fanya Baron](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/fanya_baron.md): An anarchist woman encountered by the narrator.
- [Dr. L⸺](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/young_l.md): A young doctor encountered by the narrator.
- [Little Vera](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/little_vera.md): A young girl encountered by the narrator.
- [Lansbury](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/lansbury.md): British Labour politician visiting Russia.
- [Kalinin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/kalinin.md): Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
- [Ataman Grigoriev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/grigoriev.md): Ukrainian ataman who rebelled against the Bolsheviks.
- [Kerensky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/kerensky.md): Former head of the Russian Provisional Government.
- [Count Pirro](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/count_pirro.md): An Italian count encountered by the narrator.
- [Askarev](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/askarev.md): A universalist thinker encountered by the narrator.
- [Old Peter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/old_peter.md): An elderly character encountered by the narrator.
- [Victor Chernov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/chernov.md): Leader of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

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