Pavel Efimovich Dybenko was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander. He was arrested, tortured and executed during the Great Purge and subsequently rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw.
Dybenko with his wife Alexandra Kollontai during his service in the Ukrainian Soviet Army
Dybenko in 1930
Bust of Dybenko in Bryansk
Jacques Sadoul (politician)
Jacques Numa Sadoul, commonly known as Captain Sadoul, was a French lawyer, communist politician, and writer, one of the founders of the Communist International. He began his career in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in Vienne, and, by the time of World War I, was serving under Albert Thomas, the Minister of Armaments. A French Army Captain, he was Thomas' envoy to the Russian Republic, keeping contact with the socialist circles and steering them toward the Entente Powers. After the October Revolution, he maintained close contacts with the Bolsheviks, pledging them his support against the Central Powers during the crisis of 1917–1918. He was unable to prevent Bolshevist Russia from signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which took her out of the war, but, having established close contacts with Leon Trotsky and other communist leaders, became a communist himself.
Sadoul during his 1925 trial
Photograph of Sadoul during his time in Vienne, ca. 1912
Sadoul (second from right), flanked by Pierre Pascal and Marcel Body (1922 photograph)
The Comintern's 1st Congress. In the car, Grigory Zinoviev and Anatoly Lunacharsky, with foreign delegates—Hugo Eberlein, Otto Grimlund, Fritz Platten, and Karl Steinhardt. Sadoul is the left of the car, in profile, addressing Zinoviev