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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Security, intelligence and policing 164

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any State security agencies 164

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 170 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Hungary state institutions 10 Nazi party and regime 9 United States state institutions 6 Russian Empire state institutions 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6 East Germany state institutions 6

All 37 affiliations

Albania

Albania state institutions 1

China

Communist Party of China 1 People’s Republic of China state institutions 3

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 3 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germany state institutions 6

France

France state institutions 4 French First Republic state institutions 1

Germany

Germany state institutions 3 Nazi party and regime 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Greece state institutions 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutions 1

Madagascar

Madagascar state institutions 1

Poland

Poland state institutions 2 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Romania

Romania state institutions 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Soviet Union state institutions 170

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 1

United States

United States state institutions 6 Republican Party (United States) 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 1 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position

Any Marxism and communism 164

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 163 Russia 1

Background

Any Russia 100 Ukraine 19 Georgia 11 Belarus 10 Poland 9 Latvia 5 Lithuania 3 Armenia 2 Estonia 1 France 1 Germany 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 20 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 109 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 26 The last generation1985–1991 9

Security, intelligence and policing Soviet Union state institutions State security agencies Clear all

164 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1873–1918
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1934
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1877–1926
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1938
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1941
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1938
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1941
Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1940
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1960
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1925
Yakov Khristoforovich Peters Яков Христофорович Петерс Founding deputy chairman of the Cheka, Honorary Chekist No. 2 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1938
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Martin Ivanovich Lācis Mārtiņš Lācis Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and theorist of class-based Red Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1938
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1939
Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1939
Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1941
Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1960
Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1937
Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1938
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda Генрих Григорьевич Ягода The NKVD chief who expanded the Gulag and became a purge defendant Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1938
Yefim Georgiyevich Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов Architect of the Shakhty case and boss of the North Caucasus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1940
Vsevolod Apollonovich Balitsky Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий The master of the Ukrainian security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1937
Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Stanislav Frantsevich Redens Станислав Францевич Реденс Stalin's brother-in-law who chaired the Moscow troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1940
Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1956
Karl Viktorovich Pauker Карл Викторович Паукер The operations chief who guarded Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1937
Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1938
Nikolai Iosifovich Antonov-Gritsyuk Николай Иосифович Антонов-Грицюк Chekist who went from chairing the Kabardino-Balkar troika to heading the NKVD prison department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1939
Eduard Petrovich Berzin Эдуард Петрович Берзин The Latvian Chekist who built Dalstroy and colonised Kolyma with forced labour for gold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1938
Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky Леонид Михайлович Заковский The Hammer of Leningrad Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1938
Sergei Naumovich Mironov Сергей Наумович Миронов The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who opened the mass operations in West Siberia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1940
Shalva Otarovich Tsereteli Шалва Отарович Церетели From tsarist officer to Beria's untitled enforcer in state security Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1955
Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин The NKVD rezident who ran a Gestapo mole and coordinated Soviet atomic espionage in America Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1972
Georgy Yevgenyevich Prokofiev Георгий Евгеньевич Прокофьев The deputy commissar who manufactured the wrecking cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1937
Pavel Petrovich Bulanov Павел Петрович Буланов Yagoda's secretary who staged the Moscow trials and became a defendant himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1938
Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Izrail Yakovlevich Dagin Израиль Яковлевич Дагин From North Caucasus NKVD chief to government protection head, an executor of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Vladimir Yefimovich Tsesarsky Владимир Ефимович Цесарский Yezhov’s confidant who kept the Great Terror’s ledgers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Zinovy Markovich Ushakov Зиновий Маркович Ушаков The interrogator who beat a confession out of Tukhachevsky, and spoke of beating only once it was his turn Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Richard Gustavovich Sorge Рихард Густавович Зорге The spy who stole the war’s timetable in Tokyo Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1944
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов The NKGB chief named first in the Katyn order, who wrote plays under a pseudonym Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1953
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin Василий Михайлович Блохин The executioner who served twenty-seven years under three chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1955
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov Александр Михайлович Орлов The NKVD chief in Spain who shipped the Republic's gold to Moscow and broke the POUM, then fled Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1973
Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1938

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