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Fyodor Aronovich Rothstein Фёдор Аронович Ротштейн
Bolshevik historian who became Soviet Russia's first ambassador to Persia after thirty years of exile in Britain
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1871–1953
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин
The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1936
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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай
The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1952
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Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин
The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1874–1946
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Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов
The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1876–1951
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Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский
The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1878–1952
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Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский
The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1937
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Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий
From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1938
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Georgi Mihaylov Dimitrov Георги Михайлов Димитров
From Leipzig defendant to Comintern General Secretary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1949
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Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц
From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1952
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Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский
From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1955
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Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе
Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1883–1927
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Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский
ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943)
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1959
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Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин
Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1884–1951
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Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek
The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1885–1939
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Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков
Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1888–1927
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Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан
Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1889–1937
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Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников
From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1892–1939
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Grigory Naumovich Voitinsky Григорий Наумович Войтинский
The Comintern's first envoy who midwifed the Chinese Communist Party
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1893–1953
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Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов
The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1897–1942
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Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис
Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1898–1937
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Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин
The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1900–1958
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Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif Павел Александрович Миф
Comintern China specialist who cultivated the 28 Bolsheviks
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1901–1938
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Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov Василий Васильевич Кузнецов
Three-time interim head of state and Gromyko's First Deputy for 22 years
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1901–1990
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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky Константин Александрович Уманский
From TASS correspondent to youngest ambassador in Washington. The sharp, combative face of Stalin's wartime diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1902–1945
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Mikhail Alexeyevich Menshikov Михаил Алексеевич Меньшиков
Trade-and-diplomacy official sacked by Stalin over bananas, then returned as a Cold War ambassador under Khrushchev
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1902–1976
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Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin Валериан Александрович Зорин
The Soviet Cold War diplomat who denied the Cuban missiles at the UN Security Council
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1902–1986
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Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик
The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1906–1980
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Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков
Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1907–1964
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Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв
The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1908–1963
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Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin Георгий Максимович Пушкин
The Soviet diplomat who warned Khrushchev about Berlin
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1909–1963
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko Андрей Андреевич Громыко
“Mister Nyet,” whose last move was to nominate the reformer
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1909–1989
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Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов
Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1911–1992
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Pyotr Andreyevich Abrassimov Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов
The Soviet 'governing ambassador' who managed Cold War Berlin
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1912–2009
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Stepan Vasilievich Chervonenko Степан Васильевич Червоненко
Soviet ambassador for 24 years across the Sino-Soviet split, Prague Spring, and détente
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1915–2003
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Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов
The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1918–1993
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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemasov Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов
The last Soviet ambassador to watch the GDR dissolve
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1918–1998
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Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский
From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1919–2003
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов
Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1921–1997
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Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев
Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1921–2017
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Georgy Markovich Korniyenko Георгий Маркович Корниенко
Gromyko's point man on America who ran arms-control talks, opposed the Afghan invasion, and demanded truth over KAL 007
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1925–2006
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Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин
The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1926–2018
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Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов
The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1929–2007
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Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin Юрий Владимирович Дубинин
Soviet ambassador who personified perestroika diplomacy in Washington during the Gorbachev era
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1930–2013
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Boris Dmitrievich Pankin Борис Дмитриевич Панкин
The post-coup foreign minister of the collapsing Union
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1931–
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Alexander Alexandrovich Bessmertnykh Александр Александрович Бессмертных
The last regular Soviet foreign minister
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1933–
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Yuli Alexandrovich Kvitsinsky Юлий Александрович Квицинский
Gromyko protégé and arms negotiator remembered for the "Walk in the Woods"
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1936–2010