People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков The non-Politburo power who was the institutional memory of the Soviet government for 25 years
- Alexander Pavlovich Lyashko Александр Павлович Ляшко The Donetsk-born Soviet economic manager who led Ukraine's government for 15 years through the Brezhnev era