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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 382 Government and administration 92 Legislature and state representation 25 Military command 264 Security, intelligence and policing 193 Diplomacy and international organization 80 Economy, finance and planning 119 Industry and production 104 Agriculture and land policy 26 Ideology and propaganda 83 Social movements and organizing 238 Scholarship and theory 44 Education 10 Science and technology 126 Literature and arts 61 Law and justice 34

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 148 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 8 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Soviet Union state institutions 5 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 4 Communist Party of China 3

All 39 affiliations

Albania

Party of Labour of Albania 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 1

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 3 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 3 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Hungary

Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 8

India

Indian National Congress 1

Romania

Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1 African National Congress (ANC) 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 148 Soviet Union state institutions 5

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 2

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 3

Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 33 Socialist-bloc reform leader 9 Dissident 17 Anarchists 11 Non-Bolshevik socialists 20 Narodniks 7 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 5 Fascists and Nazis 1 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 7 Western Marxist theorists 4 Marxism and communism 238 Early socialism 1 Revolutionary socialism 3 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Nationalism 6

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 169 Russia 15 Hungary 7 France 6 Germany 4 Romania 4 China 3 Czechoslovakia 3 Poland 3 Albania 2 Estonia 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 United States 2 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 Czechia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 East Germany 1 Greece 1 India 1 Korea 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 1 Vietnam 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 135 Ukraine 11 Belarus 9 Hungary 8 Poland 8 Georgia 7 France 5 Germany 5 Latvia 5 China 3 Romania 3 Albania 2 Czechia 2 Estonia 2 Finland 2 Korea 2 Lithuania 2 Moldova 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 United States 2 Armenia 1 Azerbaijan 1 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Greece 1 India 1 Martinique 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 1 Uzbekistan 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 7 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 62 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 43 The last generation1985–1991 25

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 30 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 24

Social movements and organizing Marxism and communism Clear all

238 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович 'Iron Lazar', Stalin's hard-line enforcer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1991
Ottó Korvin Korvin Ottó Communist who ran the political police of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as head of its political investigation department Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary state institutions 1894–1919
Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1920
Iosif Mikhailovich Vareikis Иосиф Михайлович Варейкис Regional party boss of collectivization and the Great Terror who heard Stalin ask why there were so many spies on his watch Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1938
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
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
Boris Petrovich Sheboldaev Борис Петрович Шеболдаев Party master of the Azov-Black Sea krai, brought down on the eve of the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1937
Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev Андрей Андреевич Андреев The organization man who sat in the Politburo for 20 years, the CC secretary most often dispatched to purge the regions Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1971
Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda A national hero of two world wars who became an unlikely last bastion of the Prague Spring Military command · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1895–1979
Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1896–1917
Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1966
Imre Sallai Sallai Imre Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1897–1932
Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin Пётр Иванович Смородин The worker-Bolshevik who built the Komsomol's mass base and made 'study' its watchword Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1939
Charles Tillon Charles Tillon A communist who carried working-class militancy into armed resistance Social movements and organizing · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1897–1993
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
Vasile Luca Vasile Luca Finance minister of the "Muscovite faction", purged on the pretext of the 1952 currency reform and dead in Aiud prison, a Székely Hungarian communist Political and party leadership · Romania state institutions 1898–1963
Zhou Enlai 周恩来 The PRC's first premier and an architect of its foreign policy Government and administration · People’s Republic of China state institutions 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
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
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
Sreten Žujović Сретен Жујовић A Stalin supporter at the heart of Tito’s party Social movements and organizing · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1899–1976
Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1981
Arvīds Yanovich Pelše Арвид Янович Пельше Brezhnev-era guardian of party discipline and Latvian-born Politburo member Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1983
Choe Yong-gon 최용건 The Manchurian guerrilla who became the KPA's first commander and the DPRK's nominal head of state Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1900–1976
Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov Борис Георгиевич Бажанов The only defector from Stalin's Secretariat, chronicler of Politburo secrets Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1900–1982
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
Jakub Berman Jakub Berman An architect of Stalinist power in Poland Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1901–1984
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
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov Георгий Максимилианович Маленков The first loser of the age when losers stopped dying Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1988
Nikolai Pavlovich Chaplin Николай Павлович Чаплин The boy commissar who built the Komsomol into the party's youth-training apparatus Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1938
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
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1902–1952
Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1976
Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov Василий Михайлович Андрианов A Stalin-era regional party boss who ran wartime Sverdlovsk, then rebuilt Leningrad after the Leningrad Affair purges Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1978
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко Stalin's trusted partisan chief who orchestrated the Rail War, pushed aside at the threshold of succession Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1984
Vasil Pavlovich Mzhavanadze Васил Павлович Мжаванадзе The Georgian boss who ruled nineteen years, and godfathered a shadow economy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1988
Sándor Fürst Fürst Sándor Member of the Hungarian Communist leadership hanged with Imre Sallai after a summary trial that used the Biatorbágy bombing as a pretext Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1903–1932
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev Александр Васильевич Косарев The young Komsomol chief who carried out the Great Purge and was then consumed by it Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1939
Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov Пётр Сергеевич Попков Wartime steward of besieged Leningrad, first victim of the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1950
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 Ilyich Belyaev Николай Ильич Беляев Khrushchev loyalist who defended him in 1957, undone by the Temirtau riots Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
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
Averky Borisovich Aristov Аверкий Борисович Аристов Presidium member born a fisherman's son, party cadres chief who loved to fish Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1973
Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1979
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
Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1950
Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1982
Nikolai Nikolayevich Shatalin Николай Николаевич Шаталин Malenkov's cadres chief: party organizer who oversaw the security organs after Stalin's death, then sidelined by Khrushchev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1984
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Павел Алексеевич Черенков The Soviet Nobel physicist who discovered the Cherenkov effect Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1990
Kim San 김산 Internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution, subject of Song of Arirang Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of China 1905–1938