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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 106 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 5 Military command 177 Security, intelligence and policing 102 Diplomacy and international organization 42 Economy, finance and planning 93 Industry and production 81 Agriculture and land policy 16 Ideology and propaganda 52 Social movements and organizing 149 Scholarship and theory 55 Education 8 Science and technology 104 Literature and arts 64 Religion 1 Law and justice 23

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5 Soviet Union state institutions 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

All 6 affiliations

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 Soviet Union state institutions 4

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Socialist-bloc reform leader 6 Anarchists 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 Narodniks 2 Marxism and communism 23

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 55 Russia 44 United States 4 France 1 United Kingdom 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 55 Georgia 4 Armenia 3 Latvia 2 Belarus 1 Estonia 1 Finland 1 Hungary 1 Lithuania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 5 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 11 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 10 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 15 The last generation1985–1991 7

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 5

Scholarship and theory Citizenship: Soviet Union Background: Russia Clear all

55 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин Rurikid prince, founder of anarcho-communism, geographer of Mutual Aid: escaped the Peter and Paul Fortress Scholarship and theory 1842–1921
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich Вера Ивановна Засулич From a narodnik revolver to Marxist criticism, half a century of one woman's revolutionary life Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1849–1919
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin Иван Владимирович Мичурин Self-taught plant breeder whose name was hijacked by Lysenko Scholarship and theory 1855–1935
Lev Grigorievich Deitch Лев Григорьевич Дейч Co-founder of the Emancipation of Labour group and a Menshevik pioneer at the origins of Russian Marxism Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1855–1941
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Константин Эдуардович Циолковский From a deaf provincial teacher to the father of cosmonautics. The self-taught visionary whose rocket equation opened the space age Scholarship and theory 1857–1935
Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon Михаил Осипович Гершензон Russian cultural historian who launched the Vekhi collection and urged the intelligentsia toward spiritual self-awareness Scholarship and theory 1869–1925
David Borisovich Riazanov Давид Борисович Рязанов Founder of the Marx-Engels Institute and independent Marxist who never stopped disagreeing Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1870–1938
Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1870–1944
Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1941
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Николай Александрович Бердяев A Russian thinker who left Marxism to found a Christian existentialist philosophy of freedom Scholarship and theory 1874–1948
Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle Евгений Викторович Тарле Historian of Napoleon who won world renown, survived Academic Case exile, and returned under Stalin's personal protection Scholarship and theory 1874–1955
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1937
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин “The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1938
Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1943
Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1945
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1882–1937
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1882–1940
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1882–1945
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Dmitry Ivanovich Shcherbakov Дмитрий Иванович Щербаков A geologist who helped design the Soviet uranium search Scholarship and theory 1893–1966
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin Михаил Михайлович Бахтин Philosopher of dialogue and carnival, returned after thirty years of oblivion Scholarship and theory 1895–1975
Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1966
Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1957
Yevsei Grigoryevich Liberman Евсей Григорьевич Либерман Theoretical catalyst of the 1965 Soviet economic reform Scholarship and theory 1897–1981
Boris Aleksandrovich Chagin Борис Александрович Чагин The doyen of Soviet Marxist history of philosophy who alone survived his institute's purge Scholarship and theory 1899–1987
Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1979
Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1983
Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev Алексей Матвеевич Румянцев The political economist who opened Khrushchev's economic debate, and institutional founder of Soviet sociology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1993
Vadim Aleksandrovich Trapeznikov Вадим Александрович Трапезников An automation scientist who pressed technology toward economic reform Scholarship and theory 1905–1994
Alexander Vasilievich Korobov Александр Васильевич Коробов Gosplan career planner who served from wartime reconstruction through the Kosygin reform preparations Scholarship and theory 1907–1967
Yakov Abramovich Kronrod Яков Абрамович Кронрод Leader of the 'commodity school' in Soviet political economy who argued for the law of value and economic democracy Scholarship and theory 1912–1984
Isai Izrailevich Gurevich Исай Израилевич Гуревич A nuclear theorist who made reactor design possible Scholarship and theory 1912–1992
Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev Лев Николаевич Гумилёв Historian who reinvented Eurasianism with the theory of ethnogenesis and passionarity Scholarship and theory 1912–1992
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov Александр Михайлович Прохоров Nobel-winning laser co-inventor who helmed the Great Soviet Encyclopedia for three decades Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1916–2002
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург From the H-bomb's 'second idea' to the Nobel Prize: a century-spanning theoretical physicist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1916–2009
Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1921–1982
Mikhail Ivanovich Semiryaga Михаил Иванович Семиряга Soviet military historian who first broke the official silence on Winter War casualties, revealing 53,522 dead Scholarship and theory 1922–2000
Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov Георгий Аркадьевич Арбатов The USSR's preeminent Americanist who built a think-tank on Arbat Street, not in Akademgorodok, and designed détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2010
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya Татьяна Ивановна Заславская Founder of Soviet economic sociology; her 1983 report lit the intellectual fuse of perestroika Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2013
Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky Фёдор Михайлович Бурлацкий Architect of Khrushchev's reforms and pioneer of Soviet political science Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2014
Oleg Timofeyevich Bogomolov Олег Тимофеевич Богомолов An economist of socialist economic integration and reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2015
Ivan Timofeyevich Frolov Иван Тимофеевич Фролов The philosopher who gave perestroika its humanist foundations: from defending genetics to founding the science of Man Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–1999
Yuly Yakovlevich Olsevich Юлий Яковлевич Ольсевич Soviet economist who identified two incompatible regulators, plan and quasi-market, as the core contradiction of the Kosygin reform Scholarship and theory 1929–2016
Grigori Fedotovich Krivosheyev Григорий Фёдорович Кривошеев The statistician who made Soviet war losses countable Scholarship and theory 1929–2019
Alexander Yevgenyevich Bovin Александр Евгеньевич Бовин Brezhnev's foreign-affairs speechwriter who put détente into prose, then became its sharpest television commentator Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1930–2004
Alexandr Viktorovich Nemtsov Александр Викентьевич Немцов Russia's foremost alcohol epidemiologist, whose estimate that the anti-alcohol campaign saved over a million lives anchors the scholarship Scholarship and theory 1933–
Vladislav Alexandrovich Kutuzov Владислав Александрович Кутузов The Soviet historian who laid the foundation of Leningrad Affair studies Scholarship and theory 1933–2016

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