List of Ukrainian Jews - Soldiers and Revolutionaries

Soldiers and Revolutionaries

  • Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary
  • Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy
  • Morris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spy
  • Leo Deutsch, revolutionary
  • Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S.
  • Israel Fisanovich, World War II submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary
  • Jacob Golos, Soviet spy
  • Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky)
  • Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spy
  • Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet front commander, WWII, Minister of Defence (Jewish origin is disputed)
  • Abram Mogilevsky, General stationed in Mongolia during WWII.
  • Leo Olshanetsky, Soldier during WWII.
  • Alexander Parvus, revolutionary, major investor and financial supporter of the October Revolution
  • Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent
  • Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary
  • Grigori Shtern (Grigory Stern), Red Army commander (Colonel General)
  • Naum Sorkin, Red Army military intelligence chief in the Far East (Major-General)
  • V. Volodarsky (born Moisei Goldstein), communist revolutionary
  • Mark Zborowski, Soviet spy
  • Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II
  • Mishka Yaponchik, gangster, leader of the Odessa Jewish Resistance group in 1917-1921

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Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:

    On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
    —Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers. Address, 1647, to the English Parliament. “Humble Representation.”