Maria Spiridonova
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Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries, she assassinated Gavriil Luz
Maria Spiridonova Portrait
Spiridonova before 1906
Spiridonova and Grigory Gershuni, founder of the SR Combat Organization, in Akatuy, 1906
The Shesterka ("Six") photographed at the Omsk station during their triumphal transfer to Siberia (Spiridonova is the first on the left in the foreground)
Left SR uprising
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The Left SR uprising, or Left SR revolt, was a rebellion against the Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow, Soviet Russia, on 6–7 July 1918. It was one of a number of left-win
Maria Spiridonova
…the unit that had taken over the Pokrovsky barracks and arrested Felix Dzerzhinsky when he had gone there to arrest Mirbach's assassins. Thus ended the Left SR uprising, and historian Orlando Figes notes that "it was not a coup d'état but—not unlike the Bolsheviks' own July uprising of 1917—a suicidal act of public…
The Latvian Riflemen guard the 5th Congressof Soviets in the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow