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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 139 Government and administration 40 Legislature and state representation 6 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 211 Security, intelligence and policing 110 Diplomacy and international organization 44 Economy, finance and planning 94 Industry and production 84 Agriculture and land policy 18 Ideology and propaganda 56 Social movements and organizing 179 Scholarship and theory 105 Education 8 Science and technology 108 Literature and arts 79 Religion 4 Law and justice 31

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 9 Soviet Unionstate 9 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 3 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1

All 4 affiliations

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 3

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 9 Soviet Unionstate 9

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Dissident 4 Anarchists 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Russian revolutionary democrats 2 Marxism and communism 34

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 64 Russia 13 United States 2

Background(set)

Any Russia 79 Latvia 6 Ukraine 6 France 5 Germany 5 Poland 5 Belarus 4 China 3 Hungary 3 United States 3 Czechia 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Estonia 2 Georgia 2 United Kingdom 2 Angola 1 Azerbaijan 1 Indonesia 1 Korea 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Martinique 1 South Africa 1 Spain 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Turkey 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 9 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 28 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 21 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 15 The last generation1985–1991 4

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Literature and arts Background: Russia Clear all

79 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский Literary critic called the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia Literature and arts 1811–1848
Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Михаил Никифорович Катков The 'thunderer of Russia' who swayed opinion and court through the Russian Messenger and Moscow News Literature and arts 1818–1887
Nikolai Alexeyevich Nekrasov Николай Алексеевич Некрасов Poet-publisher who sang the peasants' suffering and turned Pushkin's Sovremennik into the center of revolutionary literature Literature and arts 1821–1878
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 19th-century Russia's greatest satirist, who mercilessly ridiculed autocracy and serfdom Literature and arts 1826–1889
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Лев Николаевич Толстой The Count who wrote War and Peace, then declared war on the state and the Church Literature and arts 1828–1910
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev Дмитрий Иванович Писарев The standard-bearer of Russian nihilism who declared that what can be smashed must be smashed Literature and arts 1840–1868
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko Владимир Галактионович Короленко The conscience of Russian letters who rejected both tsar and Bolshevik Literature and arts 1853–1921
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system Literature and arts 1863–1938
Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1863–1949
Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький The stormy petrel, caged Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1936
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon' Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1868–1953
Emma Goldman Эмма Гольдман Exiled revolutionary who made anarchism an international political movement Literature and arts 1869–1940
Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1874–1939
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1940
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Александр Александрович Блок Russia's foremost Symbolist poet who embraced the October Revolution Literature and arts 1880–1921
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov Владимир Михайлович Зензинов A Socialist Revolutionary who defended democratic socialism through exile and testimony Literature and arts · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1880–1953
Alexei N. Nikolaevich Tolstoy Алексей Николаевич Толстой The Red Count: from émigré to pillar of Stalinist letters Literature and arts 1883–1945
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov Александр Васильевич Александров From choirboy to Soviet anthem composer, founder of the Red Army Choir Literature and arts 1883–1946
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built Literature and arts 1885–1953
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov Николай Степанович Гумилёв Silver Age poet who founded Acmeism and fell to the Cheka's guns Literature and arts 1886–1921
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova Анна Андреевна Ахматова The poet who waited at the prison gates Literature and arts 1889–1966
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
El Markovich Lissitzky Эль Маркович Лисицкий Co-creator of Constructivism who turned Suprematism into architecture, the international link of the revolutionary avant-garde Literature and arts 1890–1941
Victor Lvovich Serge Виктор Львович Серж The Comintern writer-revolutionary who bore literary witness to revolution and the rise of Stalinism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1947
Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels Соломон Михайлович Михоэлс The Yiddish theatre titan who toured the world for Stalin's war effort and was murdered on Stalin's orders Literature and arts 1890–1948
Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1952
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Борис Леонидович Пастернак The poet of Doctor Zhivago and the refused Nobel Prize Literature and arts 1890–1960
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The unpublished writer of the devil Literature and arts 1891–1940
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев The 20th-century master who crossed revolution, emigration, and return, a giant of Soviet music Literature and arts 1891–1953
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg Илья Григорьевич Эренбург The Soviet writer between wartime reportage and The Thaw Literature and arts 1891–1967
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Марина Ивановна Цветаева A Silver Age poet writing between exile and return Literature and arts 1892–1941
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin Константин Александрович Федин Novelist who began as a Serapion Brother and became the chief gatekeeper of Soviet literature for 18 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1892–1977
Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak Борис Андреевич Пильняк The writer of revolutionary chaos Literature and arts 1894–1938
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel Исаак Эммануилович Бабель The short-story master who saw too much and wrote too little Literature and arts 1894–1940
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko Михаил Михайлович Зощенко The satirist who dissected post-revolutionary Soviet life Literature and arts 1894–1958
Sergei Yesenin Сергей Есенин A poet of peasant memory and revolutionary dissonance Literature and arts 1895–1925
Peretz Davidovich Markish Перец Давидович Маркиш A radical lyrical voice of Soviet Yiddish literature Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1952
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf Илья Арнольдович Ильф Co-author of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured the contradictions of NEP-era Soviet society Literature and arts 1897–1937
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov Михаил Ефимович Кольцов A leading voice of Soviet journalism whom Hemingway immortalized as Karkov Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1898–1940
Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1951
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1970
Alexei Alexandrovich Surkov Алексей Александрович Сурков Poet of "Zemlyanka" and the Writers' Union enforcer who led the campaign against Pasternak Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1899–1983
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Александр Александрович Фадеев Writers’ Union manager who killed himself at the thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1901–1956

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