821) Rufina Dmitrievna Nifontova

Rufina Dmitrievna Nifontova (1931 – 1994). Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of USSR (1978). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1972.

- "Charming red-haired and big-eyed girl who was called the rare name of Rufina, was born in Moscow in mid-September 1931."  https://fehrplay.com/…/56664-nifontova-rufina-dmitrievna-so…

(NB: the name Rufina means red-haired).

820) Vincent Sheean

James Vincent Sheean (1899 – 1975). American journalist and novelist.
Sheean's most famous work was Personal History (New York: Doubleday, 1935). It won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished Biography of 1935. Film producer Walter Wanger acquired the political memoir and made it the basis for his 1940 film production Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
He served as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War and managed to be present at some of the most important events of that time. He toured China, where he met Madam Sun Yatsen during the early days of the Communist revolution, and Rayna Prohme, a member of the American Communist Party, and they crossed the Soviet Union, where he sympathetically witnessed the unfolding of Bolshevism. Sheean saw the Palestinian uprising in Jerusalem in 1929, as well as later the German reoccupation of the Ruhr Valley and the Italian conquest of Ethiopia.
He translated Ève Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939), into English and wrote a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963).

- "In those days he was a red-haired,freckled, handsome youth whom the girls liked very much."  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search…

- "Red-haired and freckled, Vincent—as he was known—was a bookish child and absorbed himself in studying German and French." http://usgerrelations.traces.org/vincentsheean.html

- "The red-headed Vincent Sheean of the North American Newspaper Alliance..."  https://books.google.it/books…

819) Rayna Prohme

Rayna Prohme (born Simons, 1894 - 1927). American journalist.
Inspired by the events of the Russian Revolution, Rayna joined the American Communist Party. After her marriage to William Prohme, they moved to China.
In 1927 she went to Moscow along with jurnalist Vincent Sheean. Rayna wanted to study at the Lenin Institute "to be trained as a revolutionary instrument", but unfortunately she fell ill and died of encephalitis on the 21st November 1927.

- "She had bright red curly hair. It was loose enough about her face to form an aureole, a flaming aureole, with sun and brightness in it... She was like a flame with her red hair and vivid face... A mutual friend had described her as a "red-headed gal... who spit fire, mad as a hatter, a complete Bolshevik."  https://spartacus-educational.com/USAprohme.htm

- "The red-haired, fiery-tempered Prohme, Rand writes, "stands for pure revolutionary spirit."  https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search…

- "Vincent Sheean, Personal History (1933): "She was slight, not very tall, with short red-gold hair and a frivolous turned-up nose." http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/…/19851-the-sad-death-of…/

- "Her thick red hair, like a crown, shone gloriously and framed a pale, slightly freckled face."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "With him was a young and attractive red-haired woman named Rayna Prohme, also just returned from Hankow."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "The red-headed one was Rayne Prohme..."  https://books.google.it/books…

818) Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938). Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet Union politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory.
As a young man, he spent six years in exile working closely with fellow exiles Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned to Moscow, where his Bolshevik credentials earned him a high rank in the Bolshevik party and after the October Revolution became editor of the party newspaper Pravda.
When the Great Purge began in 1936, Stalin looked for any pretext to liquidate his former allies and rivals for power and some of Bukharin's letters, conversations and tapped phone-calls indicated disloyalty. Arrested in February 1937, he was charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state. After a show trial that alienated many Western communist sympathisers, he was executed in March 1938.

- "His hair is gray, with wisps of the original red. Periodically he paces his cell, then returns to his task."  https://www.hoover.org/research/martyred-communism

- "Nikolai Bukharin - short, red-haired, blue-eyed, with a mustache and beard."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Unaffected, sociable, open-minded, polite, distinguished by his red hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

817) Larissa Reissner

Larissa Mikhailovna Reissner (sometimes spelt Reisner, 1895 – 1926). Russian writer and revolutionary. She is best known for her leadership roles on the side of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War that followed the October Revolution and for her friendships with several of the Russian poets of the early 20th century.
She is said to have inspired the character of Lara in Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.

- "A slender young woman with auburn curls and the beauty of a Minerva without her helmet..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Bolsheviks like Inessa Armand (possibly Lenin's lover) and the auburn-haired beauty Larissa Reisner (who inspired Lara in Dr Zhivago)..."  https://www.independent.co.uk/…/book-review-wives-tales-of-…

816) Rudolf Slánský

Rudolf Slánský (1901 – 1952). Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. After the split between Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, the latter instigated a wave of "purges" of the respective Communist Party leaderships, to prevent more splits between the Soviet Union and its Central European "satellite" countries. In Czechoslovakia, Slánský was one of 14 leaders arrested in 1951 and put on show trial en masse in November 1952, charged with high treason. After eight days, 11 of the 14 were sentenced to death. Slánský's sentence was carried out five days later.

- "Slansky himself (who was red-haired) was described in more than one newspaper article as 'Judas'."  https://www.passeidireto.com/…/czechoslovakia-brief-hist…/38

- "Rudolf Slansky, a tall, red-haired butcher's son from a village near Pilsen, was a devoted Communist."  http://content.time.com/…/mag…/article/0,9171,815698,00.html

815) Uzi Narkiss

Uzi Narkiss (1925 – 1997). Israeli general.
Narkiss was commander of the Israel Defense Forces units in the Central Region during the 1967 Six-Day War. Narkiss appears in the famous photograph of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan flanked by Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin and himself, taken in the Old City of Jerusalem shortly after its capture from Jordanian forces in the war.

- "Short, energetic, red-haired Narkiss..." https://books.google.it/books…