Preceded by Position established Role Film actor | Name Nikolai Podvoisky Succeeded by Leon Trotsky | |
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Died July 28, 1948, Soviet Union Movies October: Ten Days That Shook the World Similar People Eduard Tisse, Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | ||
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky (Russian: Nikolai Il'ich Podvoiskii) (February 4 (16), 1880 – July 28, 1948) was a Russian revolutionary. He played a large role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and wrote many articles for the Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta. He also wrote a history of the Bolshevik Revolution, which describes the progress of the Russian Revolution without mentioning Leon Trotsky or Joseph Stalin.
He was chairperson of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet and one of the troika who led the storming of the Winter Palace, and commissioned Sergei Eisenstein to create a film version of the 1920 re-enactment. Immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917, he served as the first Commissar of Defense of Russia until March 1918.