People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history
- Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War
- Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev Алексей Матвеевич Румянцев The political economist who opened Khrushchev's economic debate, and institutional founder of Soviet sociology
- Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya Татьяна Ивановна Заславская Founder of Soviet economic sociology; her 1983 report lit the intellectual fuse of perestroika