A Red by Any Other Name
Wondering what to call your newborn?

Poster, Govorkov V.I., 1936
- Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov
Born Vladimir Alexandrovich Rudnev. Bolshevik Party member known for pioneering economic planning. The pseudonym Bazarov comes from the main character of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons.
- Willy Brandt
The young socialist Herbert Ernst Carl Frahm took the name Willy Brandt in 1933 to avoid detection by Nazi agents. In 1969, he became the first social-democratic German chancellor since the Weimar Republic.
- Alexander Bogdanov
A doctor who became an early Bolshevik, he was born Alyaksandr Malinovsky. Malinovsky took his party name from the middle name of his wife, Natalya Bogdanovna Korsak.