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Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1946
Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1951
Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1878–1952
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1955
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1954
Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1975
Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1890–1938
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1986
Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1897–1935
Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1942
Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1937
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky Константин Александрович Уманский From TASS correspondent to youngest ambassador in Washington. The sharp, combative face of Stalin's wartime diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1945
Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov Николай Васильевич Новиков Soviet diplomat whose Novikov Telegram answered Kennan's Long Telegram, framing US policy as imperialist expansion Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1989
Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1987
Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1980
Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1998
Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1964
Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1963
Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov Валентин Михайлович Бережков Stalin's personal interpreter at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam who became the Soviet Union's leading Americanist Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1916–1998