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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the wider world
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Alexander Alexandrovich Rittich Александр Александрович Риттих
The last tsarist agriculture minister, whose grain requisition ignited the bread crisis that sparked the February Revolution
Agriculture and land policy · Russian Empire
1868–1930
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Alexander Grigorievich Shlikhter Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер
Bolshevik agrarian policymaker: first Agriculture Commissar, later VP of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1868–1940
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Semyon Leontyevich Maslov Семён Леонтьевич Маслов
A Socialist-Revolutionary agrarian thinker who championed peasant cooperation
Agriculture and land policy · Russian Provisional Government
1873–1938
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Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio
A president shaped by agrarian reform and wartime compromise
Agriculture and land policy · Finland state institutions
1873–1940
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Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович
First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1875–1937
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Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов
The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1877–1938
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Jan Sierada Ян Серада
Veterinarian who chaired the First All-Belarusian Congress and, as chairman of the Rada, presided over the declaration of independence
Legislature and state representation · Belarus state institutions
1879–1943 이후
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Kálmán Darányi Darányi Kálmán
Gömbös’s successor as prime minister in 1936–1938, who announced the Győr programme and introduced the First Jewish Law
Government and administration · Hungary
1886–1939
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Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев
First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land
Agriculture and land policy · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1887–1937
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Miklós Kállay Kállay Miklós
Wartime prime minister who refused German deportation demands and sought a secret armistice with the Western Allies
Government and administration · Hungary
1887–1967
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Robert Indrikovich Eikhe Роберт Индрикович Эйхе
Architect of terror in Siberia, recanted his confession under torture
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1890–1940
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov Михаил Александрович Чернов
The commissar who ran agriculture through the second Five-Year Plan, from grain procurement to VDNKh
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1891–1938
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Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß
Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934
Government and administration · Austria state institutions
1892–1934
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Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky Григорий Наумович Каминский
First USSR People's Commissar for Health, a founder of Soviet preventive medicine
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1895–1938
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Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev Яков Аркадьевич Яковлев
Agriculture commissar of collectivization
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1896–1938
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Heinrich Rau Heinrich Rau
Communist who chaired the German Economic Commission, the forerunner of the GDR government, and led East German economic policy
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1899–1961
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Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov Иван Александрович Бенедиктов
Long-serving agriculture administrator of late Stalinism and reconstruction
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1902–1983
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Béla Kovács Kovács Béla
The Smallholders' general secretary whose Soviet abduction triggered his party's destruction
Agriculture and land policy · Hungary
1908–1959
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Olshanski Михаил Александрович Ольшанский
The Lysenkoist agronomist who led Soviet agricultural science administration
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1908–1988
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich Владимир Владимирович Мацкевич
Agriculture minister after the virgin-lands drive
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1909–1998
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Gennady Ivanovich Voronov Геннадий Иванович Воронов
The RSFSR premier who never stopped speaking bluntly to Brezhnev
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1910–1994
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Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin Григорий Сергеевич Золотухин
A Brezhnev-era agricultural functionary who ran Tambov and Krasnodar, then oversaw Soviet grain procurement for 14 years
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1911–1988
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Pasha Nikitichna Angelina Прасковья Никитична Ангелина
A pioneer of women’s mechanized labor
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1959
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Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze Михаил Порфирьевич Георгадзе
The institutional anchor who co-signed every Soviet decree across four heads of state for 25 years
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1912–1982
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Ferenc Donáth Donáth Ferenc
A politician who linked revolution and reform while carrying the wounds of dictatorship
Agriculture and land policy · Hungary
1913–1986
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Chen Yonggui 陈永贵
The peasant leader of the model village behind “In agriculture, learn from Dazhai”, who rose to vice-premier
Agriculture and land policy · People’s Republic of China
1915–1986
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Ziya Nuriyevich Nuriyev Зия Нуриевич Нуриев
Bashkir deputy premier who ran Brezhnev's agro-industrial complex
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1915–2012
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Wan Li 万里
“If you want rice, look for Wan Li” — the reform pioneer who let Anhui’s peasants contract land to households
Agriculture and land policy · People’s Republic of China
1916–2015
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Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky Дмитрий Степанович Полянский
Brezhnev-era official across agriculture and government
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1917–2001
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Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский
First chairman of Gosagroprom
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1926–2017
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Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц
Agriculture minister of late stagnation
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1928–2019
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Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов
Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1929–1993
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Nikolai Ivanovich Dementey Николай Иванович Дементей
A chairman caught between preserving the Union and Belarusian sovereignty
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1930–2018
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Vladimir Migranovich Movsisyan Վլադիմիր Միգրանովիչ Մովսիսյան
The last Communist Party first secretary of Soviet Armenia
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1933–2014
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Yegor Semyonovich Stroev Егор Семёнович Строев
Gorbachev's last agriculture Politburo member: operational chief of perestroika farm policy
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1937–
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Viktor Vasilyevich Baklanov Виктор Васильевич Бакланов
Full cavalier of the Order of Labour Glory, collective-farm mechanizer
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union
1949–2019