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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 Unionstate 59 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 48 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5 People’s Republic of Chinastate 5 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 4 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Hungarystate 2 Soviet Ukrainestate 2

All 15 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 2 People’s Republic of Chinastate 5

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 4 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 2 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 2 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 2

International organizations

Comintern 2

Russia

General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 48 Soviet Unionstate 59

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 2

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Dissident 1 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 Fascists and Nazis 3 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Marxism and communism 83 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1 Nationalism 5

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 65 China 5 East Germany 4 Hungary 4 Germany 2 Russia 2

Background

Any Russia 52 Germany 6 China 5 Armenia 4 Belarus 4 Hungary 4 Ukraine 3 Lithuania 2 Palestine 1 Turkmenistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 16 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 29 The last generation1985–1991 6

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 5

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 3 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 8

Ideology and propaganda Marxism and communism Clear all

83 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1863–1933
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1864–1935
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1932
Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1944
Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1870–1928
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1872–1933
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1878–1937
Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1948
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin Абрам Моисеевич Деборин Founder of Soviet Marxist philosophy, condemned as 'Menshevizing idealism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1963
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1882–1920
Boris Dmitriyevich Grekov Борис Дмитриевич Греков Founder of Soviet medieval studies; established the feudal interpretation of Kievan Rus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1882–1953
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov Government and administration · Soviet Union 1883–1921
Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1938
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1888–1938
Willi Münzenberg Willi Münzenberg The 'Red Millionaire' who exposed Nazi terror through publishing, the Comintern's greatest propagandist, who broke with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1889–1940
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1890–1946
V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1891–1918
Ivan Mikhailovich Gronsky Иван Михайлович Гронский The literary commissar who coined 'socialist realism' with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1894–1985
Aleksei Ivanovich Stetsky Алексей Иванович Стецкий Propaganda chief who moved from Bukharin's 'red professor' circle to Stalin's side Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1896–1948
József Révai Révai József Overseer of culture in the Rákosi era Ideology and propaganda · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1898–1959
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1898–1979
Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1899–1968
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1932
Alexander Sergeyevich Shcherbakov Александр Сергеевич Щербаков Stalin's wartime propaganda chief and Moscow party boss, whose death became a spark for the Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1945
Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов Head of SMAD’s Propaganda Administration who drove the founding of the SED and the Sovietisation of eastern Germany Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1984
Mark Borisovich Mitin Марк Борисович Митин Stalin-era chief philosophical authority who installed dialectical materialism as state doctrine Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1987
Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov Фёдор Васильевич Константинов Chief editor of the 5-volume Philosophical Encyclopedia and architect of the standard Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosophy textbook Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1991
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1902–1982
Rudolf Herrnstadt Rudolf Herrnstadt Editor of Neues Deutschland who helped draft the 1953 New Course, moved against Ulbricht and was purged as a “faction” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1903–1966
Fred Oelßner Fred Oelßner Economist and the SED’s chief ideologue until 1958, when he was expelled from the Politburo in the Schirdewan affair Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1903–1977
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1903–1978
Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov Бонифатий Михайлович Кедров Philosopher of science who systematized dialectical materialism for natural science and created the Kedrov Triangle Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1903–1985
Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1904–1986
Chen Boda 陈伯达 Mao’s political secretary and the codifier of “Mao Zedong Thought”, head of the Cultural Revolution Group until his fall in 1970 Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1904–1989
Anton Ackermann Anton Ackermann German communist who drafted the KPD’s 1945 appeal and argued for a “special German road to socialism” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1905–1973
Najati Sidqi نجاتي صدقي Palestinian activist linking anti-colonialism and anti-fascism Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1905–1979
Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1905–1991
Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev Борис Николаевич Пономарёв The party international chief who managed the communist line abroad Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1995
Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them” Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1905–1995
Ferenc Rózsa Rózsa Ferenc Communist who was the first editor of the underground Szabad Nép and died in custody after his arrest in 1942 Ideology and propaganda · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1906–1942
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1906–1982
Leonid Fyodorovich Ilyichev Леонид Фёдорович Ильичёв Khrushchev's chief ideologue: the philosopher who edited both Pravda and Izvestia, then designed the anti-religious campaign Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Georgy Fyodorovich Alexandrov Георгий Фёдорович Александров Stalin's chief ideological supervisor, broken by a philosophy debate Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1908–1961
Pyotr Nikolayevich Fedoseyev Пётр Николаевич Федосеев The philosophical administrator of the Soviet ideological apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1908–1990
Alexei Vladimirovich Romanov Алексей Владимирович Романов The Goskino chairman who harvested Politburo phone calls every Monday and enforced cuts he didn't always believe in Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1908–1998
Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1910–1974
Deng Tuo 邓拓 People’s Daily editor whose Evening Chats at Yanshan were read as satire of the Great Leap, the Cultural Revolution’s first victim Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1912–1966

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