People of the Revolution and the USSR
Ideology and propaganda
Soviet Union (state)
People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985
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- Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth
- Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov Фёдор Васильевич Константинов Chief editor of the 5-volume Philosophical Encyclopedia and architect of the standard Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosophy textbook
- Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal
- Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony
- Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov Бонифатий Михайлович Кедров Philosopher of science who systematized dialectical materialism for natural science and created the Kedrov Triangle
- Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them”
- Pyotr Nikolayevich Fedoseyev Пётр Николаевич Федосеев The philosophical administrator of the Soviet ideological apparatus
- Alexei Vladimirovich Romanov Алексей Владимирович Романов The Goskino chairman who harvested Politburo phone calls every Monday and enforced cuts he didn't always believe in
- Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control
- Sergei Pavlovich Trapeznikov Сергей Павлович Трапезников The gatekeeper of academic orthodoxy in the Brezhnev era
- Vladimir Ilyich Stepakov Владимир Ильич Степаков Brezhnev-era Agitprop chief removed over a misattributed Lenin quote
- Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin Сергей Георгиевич Лапин Brezhnev's broadcasting czar who ran all Soviet TV and radio for 15 years
- Sergei Mitrofanovich Kovalev Сергей Митрофанович Ковалёв Soviet ideologue who codified the Brezhnev Doctrine in the pages of Pravda
- Pyotr Nilovich Demichev Пётр Нилович Демичев A Brezhnev-era manager of cultural policy
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolkunov Лев Николаевич Толкунов From Izvestia editor to Soviet of the Union chairman: a Brezhnev-era media mandarin who became the face of the supreme legislature
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot
- Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy
- Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin Леонид Митрофанович Замятин Information architect of the Brezhnev system
- Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control
- Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Эвальд Васильевич Ильенков A Soviet European who excavated dialectical logic from Marx's Capital
- Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey Алексей Иванович Аджубей Khrushchev's son-in-law and the editor who turned Izvestia into the most-read Soviet newspaper of the thaw
- Karen Nersesovich Brutents Карен Нерсесович Брутенц The International Department theorist who designed Soviet Third World policy under Brezhnev
- Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov Юрий Фёдорович Орлов The physicist who held the Kremlin to the Helsinki human-rights promises it signed
- Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism
- Richard Ivanovich Kosolapov Ричард Иванович Косолапов Principal architect of the Brezhnev-era 'developed socialism' doctrine