Russian/Soviet Politicians
- Adolph Joffe, Bolshevik diplomat
- Karl Radek, Soviet politician
- Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician
- Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician, the founder of the Red Army, commissar (Soviet minister) of Foreign Affairs
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician, chekist
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician, head of a liberal "Yabloko" party (half Jewish)
- Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician
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