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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the wider world
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Abram Moiseyevich Deborin Абрам Моисеевич Деборин
Founder of Soviet Marxist philosophy, condemned as 'Menshevizing idealism'
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1881–1963
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Boris Dmitriyevich Grekov Борис Дмитриевич Греков
Founder of Soviet medieval studies; established the feudal interpretation of Kievan Rus
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1882–1953
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Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий
The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1886–1938
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Ivan Mikhailovich Gronsky Иван Михайлович Гронский
The literary commissar who coined 'socialist realism' with Stalin
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1985
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Aleksei Ivanovich Stetsky Алексей Иванович Стецкий
Propaganda chief who moved from Bukharin's 'red professor' circle to Stalin's side
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1938
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Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов
The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1948
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Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин
Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1899–1968
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Alexander Sergeyevich Shcherbakov Александр Сергеевич Щербаков
Stalin's wartime propaganda chief and Moscow party boss, whose death became a spark for the Doctors' Plot
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1945
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Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов
Head of SMAD’s Propaganda Administration who drove the founding of the SED and the Sovietisation of eastern Germany
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1984
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Mark Borisovich Mitin Марк Борисович Митин
Stalin-era chief philosophical authority who installed dialectical materialism as state doctrine
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1901–1987
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Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко
Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1904–1986
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Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков
The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1991
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов
Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1906–1982
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Georgy Fyodorovich Alexandrov Георгий Фёдорович Александров
Stalin's chief ideological supervisor, broken by a philosophy debate
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1961
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Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов
Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector
Education · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2006
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Vagan Grigoryevich Grigoryan Ваган Григорьевич Григорьян
Armenian party functionary who managed the international communist movement in late Stalinism
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1901/1902–1983