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People

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 Unionstate 28 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 21 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 11 Hungarystate 2 East Germanystate 2 Finland state institutionsstate 1 Italy state institutionsstate 1 Polandstate 1

All 18 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

East Germany

East Germanystate 2

Finland

Finland state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 2

Italy

Italy state institutionsstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 1

Romania

Romaniastate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 Russian Provisional Governmentstate 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 11

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 21 Soviet Unionstate 28

United States

United States state institutionsstate 1 Democratic Party (United States) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Marxism and communism 34 Liberalism and republicanism 4 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 32 Russia 8 East Germany 2 Hungary 2 Poland 2 Benin 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Estonia 1 Finland 1 Germany 1 Greece 1 Italy 1 Romania 1 United States 1

Background

Any Russia 31 Germany 4 Poland 3 Estonia 2 Hungary 2 Latvia 2 Ukraine 2 Benin 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Finland 1 Greece 1 Italy 1 Korea 1 Lithuania 1 Moldova 1 United States 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 8 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 10 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 12 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 5 The last generation1985–1991 6

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 6 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 8

Law and justice

55 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed Ideology and propaganda · Russian Empire 1827–1907
Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev Сергей Андреевич Муромцев The Roman law scholar and Kadet leader who chaired Russia's first constitutional parliament Political and party leadership · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1850–1910
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Italian prime minister who led the country to victory after Caporetto but failed to win its territorial claims at the peace conference Political and party leadership · Italy state institutions 1860–1952
Sergey Yefimovich Kryzhanovsky Сергей Ефимович Крыжановский The Empire's legal architect who tamed the Duma with the "shameless" electoral law of 1907 Law and justice · Russian Empire 1862–1935
Pēteris Ivanovich Stučka Пётр Иванович Стучка Architect of Soviet Marxist legal theory who defined law as class relations Law and justice · Soviet Union 1865–1932
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1865–1952
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years Law and justice · Soviet Union 1869–1944
Nikolai Dmitrievich Sokolov Николай Дмитриевич Соколов Secretary of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee and the lawyer who drafted Order No. 1 Law and justice 1870–1928
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1870–1939
Dénes Berinkey Berinkey Dénes Last prime minister of the Hungarian People’s Republic, who resigned with his cabinet over the Vix note Political and party leadership · Hungary 1871–1944
Pavel Nikolaevich Pereverzev Павел Николаевич Переверзев A lawyer who crossed the boundary between law and politics in revolution Law and justice · Russian Provisional Government 1871–1944
Aron Aleksandrovich Solts Арон Александрович Сольц The Bolshevik elder called 'conscience of the party': jurist who confronted the Prosecutor General during the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1872–1945
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union 1874–1932
Ion Pelivan Ion Pelivan Veteran of the Bessarabian national movement who, as foreign minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, championed union with Romania Diplomacy and international organization 1876–1954
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union 1882–1938
Paul Levi Paul Levi From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1883–1930
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 1883–1954
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin Иван Александрович Ильин Hegelian legal philosopher who deemed October a 'national catastrophe' and became a White émigré ideologue Law and justice 1883–1954
Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union 1884–1965
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1885–1938
Ho Hon 허헌 From civil-rights lawyer of the March 1st Movement to first Chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly: a progressive nationalist Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of South Korea 1885–1951
Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1885–1960
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Isaac Zakharyevich Steinberg Исаак Захарович Штейнберг First People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin: the Left SR who defended revolutionary legality against the Cheka Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1888–1957
Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov Иван Терентьевич Голяков Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court through the Great Terror and war Law and justice · Soviet Union 1888–1961
Vasily Vasilievich Ulrikh Василий Васильевич Ульрих Presiding judge of the Moscow show trials, Stalin's 'judicial guillotine' Law and justice · Soviet Union 1889–1951
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov Николай Васильевич Устрялов Founder of National Bolshevism, the exile who saw the Bolsheviks turning into Russian state-builders Law and justice · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1890–1937
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1937
Alexandros Svolos Αλέξανδρος Σβώλος A socialist constitutional scholar who sought to ground sovereignty in the people Law and justice 1892–1956
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Korovin Евгений Александрович Коровин Founder of Soviet international law theory who conceptualized a distinct international law for the transitional period Law and justice 1892–1964
Max Fechner Max Fechner First East German justice minister, dismissed and imprisoned in 1953 after opposing the prosecution of striking workers Law and justice · East Germany 1892–1973
Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко Soviet judge at the Nuremberg IMT, death-sentence arbiter of the Great Purge Law and justice · Soviet Union 1895–1967
Nikolai Mikhailovich Rychkov Николай Михайлович Рычков The justice commissar without a law degree who ran Soviet courts for a decade, from the Great Terror through the war-crimes trials Law and justice · Soviet Union 1897–1959
Alexander Fyodorovich Gorkin Александр Фёдорович Горкин The Supreme Court chairman of rehabilitation who survived Orenburg Law and justice · Soviet Union 1897–1988
Stanisław Hejmowski Stanisław Hejmowski The lawyer who confronted state violence Law and justice 1900–1969
Hilde Benjamin Hilde Benjamin East German jurist who succeeded Fechner as justice minister after the 1953 uprising and led its harsh political trials Law and justice · East Germany 1902–1989
Anatoly Antonovich Volin Анатолий Антонович Волин The Supreme Court chairman who purged judges and was removed for rehabilitation measures Law and justice · Soviet Union 1903–2007
Grigory Nikolayevich Safonov Григорий Николаевич Сафонов USSR Prosecutor General who served at Nuremberg and was removed for refusing to sanction Beria's arrest Law and justice · Soviet Union 1904–1972
Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin Константин Петрович Горшенин The USSR's first Prosecutor General who organized war crimes trials and handed Khrushchev the statistics of the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1907–1978
Roman Andreyevich Rudenko Роман Андреевич Руденко Chief Soviet prosecutor at Nuremberg, the longest-serving head of the Soviet procuracy Law and justice · Soviet Union 1907–1981
Lev Nikolayevich Smirnov Лев Николаевич Смирнов From Nuremberg assistant prosecutor to chief justice of the USSR, the Supreme Court chairman who presided over political trials Law and justice · Soviet Union 1911–1986
Ferenc Vida Vida Ferenc A communist judge who enforced political trials Law and justice · Hungary 1911–1990
Marian Rybicki Marian Rybicki A legal functionary who defined order against a workers’ revolt Law and justice · Poland 1915–1987
Vladimir Ivanovich Terebilov Владимир Иванович Теребилов Jurist who revived the abolished Justice Ministry and directed the codification of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union 1916–2004
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union 1920–1996
Alexander Yakovlevich Sukharev Александр Яковлевич Сухарев The last reform-era Procurator General of the USSR, who oversaw the legal rehabilitation of Stalin's victims during perestroika Law and justice · Soviet Union 1923–2021
Robert F. Francis Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy The president's brother and attorney general who engineered the secret settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis Law and justice · United States state institutions 1925–1968
Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov Анатолий Иванович Лукьянов Gorbachev's classmate turned critic: the last speaker of the Soviet parliament Law and justice · Soviet Union 1930–2019
Maurice Ahanhanzo-Glèlè Maurice Ahanhanzo-Glèlè The jurist who draughted Benin’s 1990 constitution Law and justice 1934–

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