People of the Revolution and the USSR
Diplomacy and international organization
Soviet Union state institutions
Background: Russia
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- Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy
- Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business
- Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar
- 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
- 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
- Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade
- Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy
- Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind
- Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter
- Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact
- Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War
- Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov Василий Васильевич Кузнецов Three-time interim head of state and Gromyko's First Deputy for 22 years
- Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky Константин Александрович Уманский From TASS correspondent to youngest ambassador in Washington. The sharp, combative face of Stalin's wartime diplomacy
- Mikhail Alexeyevich Menshikov Михаил Алексеевич Меньшиков Trade-and-diplomacy official sacked by Stalin over bananas, then returned as a Cold War ambassador under Khrushchev
- Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin Валериан Александрович Зорин The Soviet Cold War diplomat who denied the Cuban missiles at the UN Security Council
- Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev Аркадий Александрович Соболев Soviet diplomat who co-drafted the UN Charter, the Soviet face at the UN through the early Cold War
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov Николай Васильевич Новиков Soviet diplomat whose Novikov Telegram answered Kennan's Long Telegram, framing US policy as imperialist expansion
- Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy
- Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice
- Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule
- Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin Георгий Максимович Пушкин The Soviet diplomat who warned Khrushchev about Berlin
- Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy
- Alexander Ivanovich Alexeyev Александр Иванович Алексеев KGB officer turned first Soviet ambassador to Cuba who won Castro's trust and warned Khrushchev against the missile deployment
- Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov Валентин Михайлович Бережков Stalin's personal interpreter at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam who became the Soviet Union's leading Americanist
- Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries
- Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemasov Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов The last Soviet ambassador to watch the GDR dissolve
- Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit
- Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside
- Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy
- Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations
- Viktor Pavlovich Karpov Виктор Павлович Карпов The face of Soviet arms control diplomacy across SALT, INF, and START
- Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin Юрий Владимирович Дубинин Soviet ambassador who personified perestroika diplomacy in Washington during the Gorbachev era
- Alexander Alexandrovich Bessmertnykh Александр Александрович Бессмертных The last regular Soviet foreign minister
- Yuli Alexandrovich Kvitsinsky Юлий Александрович Квицинский Gromyko protégé and arms negotiator remembered for the "Walk in the Woods"
- Pavel Ruslanovich Palazhchenko Павел Русланович Палажченко The interpreter who mediated summit diplomacy