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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 19 Government and administration 44 Legislature and state representation 15 Military command 230 Security, intelligence and policing 170 Diplomacy and international organization 54 Economy, finance and planning 108 Industry and production 101 Agriculture and land policy 23 Ideology and propaganda 60 Social movements and organizing 5 Scholarship and theory 9 Education 10 Science and technology 125 Literature and arts 12 Law and justice 28

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Central planning agencies 36 Economic management 58

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 108 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 85 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 15 People’s Republic of Chinastate 4 East Germanystate 4 Hungarystate 3 Czechoslovakiastate 2 Polandstate 2

All 31 affiliations

Albania

Albaniastate 1 Party of Labour of Albania 1

Angola

Angolastate 1

Belarus

Belarus state institutionsstate 1

China

Kuomintang 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 4

Cuba

Cubastate 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 2 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germanystate 4

Finland

Finland state institutionsstate 1 National Progressive Party (Finland) 1

France

French monarchystate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 3

Poland

Polandstate 2 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 1 Russian Federation state institutionsstate 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 15

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 85 Soviet Unionstate 108

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 2

United States

United States state institutionsstate 2 Democratic Party (United States) 2

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 1

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 3 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 103

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 106 Moldova 1 Russia 1

Background

Any Russia 88 Ukraine 5 Armenia 3 Latvia 3 Germany 2 Azerbaijan 1 Belarus 1 Moldova 1 Poland 1 Tajikistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 29 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 24 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 38 The last generation1985–1991 17

Economy, finance and planning Soviet Union (state) Clear all

108 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Leonid Borisovich Krasin Леонид Борисович Красин From revolutionary engineer to Soviet diplomatic architect, the only Bolshevik who could do business with Western capital Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1870–1926
Alexander Dmitrievich Tsyurupa Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа The Civil War food administrator who designed the grain dictatorship Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1870–1928
Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1950
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1959
Vladimir Gustavovich Groman Владимир Густавович Громан The Menshevik statistician who designed Gosplan's early control figures and balance method, leading voice of genetic planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1874–1940
Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин The economist who designed socialism in numbers Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1877–1974
Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин 'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky Яков Станиславович Ганецкий The Polish revolutionary who ran Lenin's financial pipeline from Kraków to Stockholm Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1880–1936
Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov Александр Михайлович Краснощёков The pragmatic Bolshevik who designed and led the Far Eastern Republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1880–1937
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1882–1932
Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1882–1938
Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev Алексей Егорович Бадаев Official publisher of Pravda who rose from Duma deputy to nominal head of the Russian republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1883–1951
Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk Science and technology 1883–1960
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1884–1937
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1884–1941
Grigory Alexandrovich Feldman Григорий Александрович Фельдман The Gosplan mathematical economist who first formalized the capital-goods-led growth model Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1884–1958
Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat Government and administration · Soviet Union 1885–1918
Aron Lvovich Sheinman Арон Львович Шейнман Architect of the chervonets who tamed NEP inflation, then broke with Stalin as the first high-ranking Soviet financial defector Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1885–1944
Vasily Vladimirovich Schmidt Василий Владимирович Шмидт The labour commissar who steered the statification of Soviet trade unions Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1936
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Jānis Ernestovich Rudzutaks Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак Latvian Bolshevik who denounced NKVD case fabrication in court Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1938
Pyotr Kirillovich Koganovich Пётр Кириллович Коганович The Siberian food chief whose name is one letter away from a Politburo member Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1938
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1938
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1935
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Semyon Semyonovich Lobov Семён Семёнович Лобов Bolshevik industrial administrator who rose from the Cheka to chair VSNKh RSFSR Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1939
Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1889–1942
Grigory Fedorovich Grinko Григорий Фёдорович Гринько From Ukrainian Borotbist to People's Commissar of Finance: the man who funded the Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1890–1938
Lev Natanovich Kritsman Лев Натанович Крицман The agrarian Marxist who theorized War Communism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1890–1938
Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara Government and administration · Soviet Union 1891–1940
Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1892–1938
Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk Валерий Иванович Межлаук A planner purged by the system he served Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1893–1938
Lev Yefimovich Maryasin Лев Ефимович Марьясин The Gosbank chairman Stalin called 'our Red banker' and removed a week later Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Nikolai Kirillovich Antipov Николай Кириллович Антипов The control commissar who ran Stalin's personnel-appointment machinery Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Yakov Ilyich Golev Яков Ильич Голев The finance technocrat who led Gosbank through the post-war reconstruction years Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1894–1960
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan Анастас Иванович Микоян The man who built the Soviet table, and the negotiator “from Ilyich to Ilyich” Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1895–1978
Ivan Adamovich Kraval Иван Адамович Краваль The statistician who counted a population that displeased Stalin Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina Полина Семёновна Жемчужина The first woman to head a Soviet industrial ministry, Molotov's wife, caught between Kremlin power and Jewish identity Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1897–1970
Ivan Grigoryevich Kabanov Иван Григорьевич Кабанов The wartime electrical industry chief who delivered lithium-6 for the hydrogen bomb, and Stalin's last foreign trade minister Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1898–1972
Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev Арсений Григорьевич Зверев Long-serving finance minister through war and reconstruction Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1900–1969
Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1900–1977
Nikolai Demyanovich Psurtsev Николай Демьянович Псурцев Longest-serving Minister of Communications who ran front-line signals at the Battle of Moscow and built Soviet telecom for 27 years Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1900–1980
Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1901–1983
Ivan Vladimirovich Kovalev Иван Владимирович Ковалёв The railway general who moved armies in secret, and fell over a pair of earrings Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1901–1993
Viktor Georgiyevich Bakayev Виктор Георгиевич Бакаев 16-year minister who built the Soviet merchant fleet into a global maritime power Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1902–1987

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