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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Legislature and state representation 1 Scholarship and theory 151 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 3

Affiliation

Most people

Any Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 2 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of China 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 1 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

All 7 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 2

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 Western Marxist theorists 2 Marxism and communism 6 Liberalism and republicanism 4 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1

Citizenship

Any United States 62 United Kingdom 26 Russia 23 Soviet Union 6 China 3 France 3 Ukraine 3 Czechoslovakia 2 Hungary 2 Israel 2 Spain 2 Yugoslavia 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Cuba 1 Ethiopia 1 Finland 1 Ireland 1 Italy 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Poland 1 Portugal 1 Somalia 1 Switzerland 1

Background

Any United States 43 Russia 32 United Kingdom 25 Ukraine 5 China 4 Poland 4 Armenia 3 Czechoslovakia 3 France 3 Croatia 2 Cuba 2 Hungary 2 India 2 Ireland 2 Spain 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Ethiopia 1 Finland 1 Germany 1 Israel 1 Italy 1 Japan 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Somalia 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 23 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 13 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 19 The last generation1985–1991 12

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 2 People of the Mao era1949–1976 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 13 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 17 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 11 Scholars of this history1892–현재 151

Scholarship and theory Scholars of this history 1892–현재 Clear all

151 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Михайло Грушевський Historian who wrote Ukraine as a distinct historical subject, and chairman of the Central Rada Scholarship and theory 1866–1934
E. H. Carr E. H. Carr Author of the 14-volume History of Soviet Russia; diagnosed a "latent incompatibility" between NEP markets and planning Scholarship and theory 1892–1982
Isaac Deutscher Isaac Deutscher Marxist historian of Trotsky's definitive biography, who coined the 'non-Jewish Jew' Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1907–1967
Burnett Bolloten Burnett Bolloten A painstaking archival historian of the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1909–1987
Gordon Skilling Harold Gordon Skilling The Canadian political scientist who chronicled the Prague Spring Scholarship and theory 1912–2001
Vladimir Žerjavić Vladimir Žerjavić The demographer who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses Scholarship and theory 1912–2001
Charles Bettelheim Charles Bettelheim French Marxist economist who theorized the USSR as state capitalism and shaped Third World development economics Scholarship and theory · French Communist Party (PCF) 1913–2006
Arthur M. Schlesinger Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A liberal historian who became an insider chronicler of power Scholarship and theory 1917–2007
Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm Historian of revolution’s social foundations and later memory Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1917–2012
Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest A Cold War historian who dissected the Stalin era Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1917–2015
Israel Getzler ישראל גצלר Historian who interpreted the Kronstadt uprising as the last stand of Soviet democracy Scholarship and theory 1920–2012
Bogoljub Kočović Bogoljub Kočović An independent statistician who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses Scholarship and theory 1920–2013
Claudio Pavone Claudio Pavone A historian who clarified the Resistance's moral choices and the war's layered character Scholarship and theory 1920–2016
Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson An American historian who interpreted the Spanish Republic and Civil War Scholarship and theory 1921–2019
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
Richard Edgar Pipes Richard Pipes The Cold War's leading conservative interpreter of Russian history who framed October as a coup Scholarship and theory 1923–2018
Martin Edward Malia Martin Edward Malia A historian who forecast the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1924–2004
Stuart Schram Stuart R. Schram Pioneer of Mao studies, author of The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung and editor of the ten-volume Mao’s Road to Power Scholarship and theory 1924–2012
Robert W. Davies Robert W. Davies The British economic historian who built the seven-volume chronicle of Soviet industrialisation Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1925–2021
Karel Kosík Karel Kosík A non-dogmatic Marxist who reflected on the Prague Spring Scholarship and theory 1926–2003
Pierre Broué Pierre Broué A committed historian of revolutionary movements Scholarship and theory 1926–2005
Robert Vincent Daniels Robert Vincent Daniels A historian who traced revolutionary pluralism and the making of Stalinism Scholarship and theory 1926–2010
Alexandr Alexandrovich Fursenko Александр Александрович Фурсенко The historian who first reconstructed the Cuban Missile Crisis from Soviet archives Scholarship and theory 1927–2008
Sergo Anastasi Mikoyan Серго Анастасович Микоян A historian who reconstructed the Cold War’s hidden record Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–2010
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
Vladimir Treml Vladimir Treml A scholar who quantified the Soviet economy's hidden flows Scholarship and theory 1929–2018
Grigori Fedotovich Krivosheyev Григорий Фёдорович Кривошеев The statistician who made Soviet war losses countable Scholarship and theory 1929–2019
Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick MacFarquhar Harvard sinologist whose Origins of the Cultural Revolution trilogy and Mao’s Last Revolution dissected China’s elite politics Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1930–2019
Paul Avrich Paul Avrich Historian who pioneered the history of Russian and American anarchism Scholarship and theory 1931–2006
Maurice Meisner Maurice Meisner Historian whose Mao’s China and After judged the Chinese revolution critically from within the Marxist tradition Scholarship and theory 1931–2012
Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas The historian who made the Spanish Civil War a global narrative Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1931–2017
Robert Owen Paxton Robert Owen Paxton The historian who recast Vichy collaboration Scholarship and theory 1932–
Yaacov Ro'i יעקב רועי A historian linking Soviet social and Jewish histories Scholarship and theory 1932–
Vladislav Alexandrovich Kutuzov Владислав Александрович Кутузов The Soviet historian who laid the foundation of Leningrad Affair studies Scholarship and theory 1933–2016
Theodore Merrill Vestal Theodore Vestal U.S. political scientist and Ethiopia specialist Scholarship and theory 1933–2023
Alexander Yevgenyevich Rabinowitch Alexander Evgen'evich Rabinowitch The revisionist historian who overturned the Cold War coup thesis with archival evidence Scholarship and theory 1934–2026
Martin McCauley Martin McCauley A British historian of modern Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1934–
Stanley G. Payne Stanley G. Payne America's most prominent historian arguing the Second Republic's radicalization brought on the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1934–
Alan S. Milward Alan S. Milward The British economic historian whose archival work recast postwar European recovery and integration Scholarship and theory 1935–2010
Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky Эдвард Станиславович Радзинский A popular historian who reconstructed Russia’s tragedies through archives and drama Scholarship and theory 1936–
Leonid Yanovich Gibianskii Леонид Янович Гибианский The historian whose archival discoveries rewrote the study of the Tito-Stalin split Scholarship and theory 1936–
Vojtech Mastny Vojtěch Mastný A historian who opened the Cold War archives Scholarship and theory 1936–
Grigory Isaakovich Khanin Григорий Исаакович Ханин The economist who exposed Soviet growth statistics as an 84-fold exaggeration and recalculated the real record Scholarship and theory 1937–
Ronald Radosh Ronald Radosh A historian whose break with communism led to conservative anti-communism Scholarship and theory 1937–
Archie Brown Archie Brown The British political scientist who argued Gorbachev's individual leadership was the decisive factor in transforming the Soviet system Scholarship and theory 1938–
Stephen F. Frand Cohen Stephen F. Cohen American Russia scholar who argued through Bukharin's biography that the Soviet Union had reformable alternatives and collapse was avoidable Scholarship and theory 1938–2020
Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov Юрий Николаевич Жуков A historian who reopened the question of responsibility in the Stalin era Scholarship and theory 1938–2023
Samuel Farber Samuel Farber American sociologist who reopened the debate on the Cuban Revolution Scholarship and theory 1939–
Graham Allison Graham Allison Political scientist whose analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis reshaped the study of foreign-policy decision-making Scholarship and theory 1940–
Ronald Grigor Suny Ronald Grigor Suny The historian who argued the USSR built nations, not destroyed them, the 'revenge of the past' thesis Scholarship and theory 1940–

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