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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 628 Government and administration 304 Legislature and state representation 70 Monarchs and royalty 24 Military command 520 Security, intelligence and policing 232 Diplomacy and international organization 163 Economy, finance and planning 147 Industry and production 110 Agriculture and land policy 36 Ideology and propaganda 103 Social movements and organizing 374 Scholarship and theory 278 Education 17 Science and technology 146 Literature and arts 141 Religion 20 Law and justice 55

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 14 Soviet Unionstate 12 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2 French First Republic state institutionsstate 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

All 14 affiliations

Angola

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 1

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

France

French First Republic state institutionsstate 1 Jacobin Club 1

Germany

Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Hungary

Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 14 Soviet Unionstate 12

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1 Socialist Party of America 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 3 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Dissident 6 Anarchists 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 5 Narodniks 1 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 1 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 2 Russian revolutionary democrats 2 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 61

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 85 Russia 14 France 6 United States 5 Czechoslovakia 4 Germany 4 China 3 Hungary 3 Poland 2 United Kingdom 2 Angola 1 Belarus 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Indonesia 1 Latvia 1 South Africa 1 South Korea 1 Spain 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Turkey 1 Ukraine 1 Vietnam 1

Background

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 10 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 38 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 26 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 17 The last generation1985–1991 10

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 2

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 18 Scholars of this history1892–현재 3

Literature and arts

141 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Cipriano de Rivas Cherif Cipriano de Rivas Cherif Theatre director active in Republican diplomacy Literature and arts 1891–1967
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg Илья Григорьевич Эренбург The Soviet writer between wartime reportage and The Thaw Literature and arts 1891–1967
Asja Ernestovna Lācis Asja Lācis Proletarian children's theatre pioneer who led Walter Benjamin to Marxism and Brecht Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1979
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
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский The revolution’s megaphone and satirist Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1893–1930
Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1933
Ernst Toller Ernst Toller German Jewish Expressionist playwright who took part in the Bavarian revolution Literature and arts · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1893–1939
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
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1956
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
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Robert Petrovich Eideman Роберт Петрович Эйдеман Latvian-born Civil War hero turned defendant in the Tukhachevsky trial Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1937
Peretz Davidovich Markish Перец Давидович Маркиш A radical lyrical voice of Soviet Yiddish literature Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1952
Dziga Arkadyevich Vertov Дзига Аркадьевич Вертов Founder of Kino-Eye: the documentary revolutionary who believed the camera captures truth more completely than the human eye Literature and arts 1896–1954
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
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн Master of montage: the revolutionary filmmaker who created a new cinematic language and reshaped world cinema Literature and arts 1898–1948
Bertolt Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Bertolt Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Marxist playwright who weaponized theatre for class struggle through epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt Literature and arts · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1898–1956
Paul Leroy Robeson Paul Leroy Robeson The artist who turned 'Ol' Man River' into a hymn of struggle Literature and arts 1898–1976
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
Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953 Industry and production · East Germany 1899–1975
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
Mikhail Ilyich Romm Михаил Ильич Ромм The director who built Lenin's screen myth for Stalin, then dissected fascism under the Thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1971
Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1901–1986
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov Евгений Петрович Петров Co-author with Ilf of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured NEP-era Soviet life and later edited Ogonyok magazine Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1942
Nâzım Hikmet Nâzım Hikmet The Turkish revolutionary poet who survived a 28-year sentence with verse: giant of 20th-century letters who fused modernism and communism Literature and arts 1902–1963
George Orwell George Orwell The democratic socialist who came back wounded from the POUM militia and dissected the language of totalitarianism Literature and arts 1903–1950
Nikolai Alekseyevich Zabolotsky Николай Алексеевич Заболоцкий Avant-garde co-founder of OBERIU who emerged from the Gulag as a master of classical lyricism Literature and arts 1903–1958
George Padmore George Padmore From Comintern Negro Bureau chief to architect of Pan-African independence, the revolutionary journalist who broke with empire Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1903–1959
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Alexander Alfredovich Bek Александр Альфредович Бек Author of Volokolamsk Highway, whose novel of Stalinist bureaucracy was banned until glasnost Literature and arts 1903–1972
Agnessa Ivanovna Mironova Агнесса Ивановна Миронова Wife of Sergei Mironov whose oral recollections record life in a Chekist household during the Terror Literature and arts 1903–1982
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1936
Yevgenia Solomonovna Yezhova Евгения Соломоновна Ежова Magazine editor and salon hostess, Yezhov’s wife Literature and arts 1904–1938
Vilis Tenisovich Lācis Вилис Тенисович Лацис From Ulmanis's favorite novelist to the architect of Latvia's Sovietization Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1966
Ding Ling 丁玲 From Miss Sophia’s Diary to The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, a writer who lived through Yan’an and the anti-rightist purge Literature and arts · Communist Party of China 1904–1986
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman Василий Семёнович Гроссман The writer of war's front line and totalitarianism's mirror Literature and arts 1905–1964
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov Михаил Александрович Шолохов The Russian and Soviet novelist of And Quiet Flows the Don Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1984
Ruth Rewald Ruth Rewald Exiled writer who recorded children’s experiences of the Spanish war Literature and arts 1906–1942
Wang Shiwei 王实味 The writer whose “Wild Lilies” criticised privilege at Yan’an and made him the rectification movement’s first victim Literature and arts · Communist Party of China 1906–1947
Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1967
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1975
Roman Brandstaetter Roman Brandstaetter A writer who joined Jewish and Catholic memory and organized public remembrance Literature and arts 1906–1987
Karl Ilitch Eliasberg Карл Ильич Элиасберг The conductor who rebuilt an orchestra under siege Literature and arts 1907–1978

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