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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 170 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Hungarystate 10 Nazi party and regime 9 United States state institutionsstate 6 Russian Empirestate 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6 East Germanystate 6

All 37 affiliations

Albania

Albaniastate 1

China

Communist Party of China 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 3

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 3 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germanystate 6

France

France state institutionsstate 4 French First Republic state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 3 Nazi party and regime 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Greece state institutionsstate 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 2 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Soviet Unionstate 170

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1

United States

United States state institutionsstate 6 Republican Party (United States) 3

Yugoslavia

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

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 6 Counter-revolutionary forces 10 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Socialist-bloc reform leader 3 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 1 Fascists and Nazis 12 Marxism and communism 193 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Monarchy and royalism 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 169 Germany 10 Hungary 10 Russia 8 East Germany 7 United States 6 France 5 China 3 Czechoslovakia 3 Poland 2 Albania 1 Greece 1 Japan 1 Latvia 1 Madagascar 1 Romania 1 Somalia 1 Spain 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 110 Ukraine 19 Germany 16 Georgia 11 Poland 11 Belarus 10 Hungary 9 France 6 Latvia 6 United States 6 Lithuania 4 China 3 Armenia 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Albania 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Greece 1 Japan 1 Korea 1 Madagascar 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 Somalia 1 Spain 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 24 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 111 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 26 The last generation1985–1991 10

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 3

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 24 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 26

Security, intelligence and policing

232 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1892–1955
Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1956
Karl Viktorovich Pauker Карл Викторович Паукер The operations chief who guarded Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1893–1937
Nikolai Iosifovich Antonov-Gritsyuk Николай Иосифович Антонов-Грицюк Chekist who went from chairing the Kabardino-Balkar troika to heading the NKVD prison department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1893–1939
Wilhelm Zaisser Wilhelm Zaisser First East German Minister for State Security, purged in 1953 after trying to replace Ulbricht Security, intelligence and policing · East Germany 1893–1958
Allen Dulles Allen Dulles The American intelligence official who institutionalized covert war Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1893–1969
Konstantinos Maniadakis Κωνσταντίνος Μανιαδάκης Architect of the dictatorship's security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Greece state institutions 1893–1972
Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin Николай Владимирович Скоблин A White general turned clandestine Soviet collaborator Security, intelligence and policing 1893–1937/1938?
Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1893–1938
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 1894–1919
Eduard Petrovich Berzin Эдуард Петрович Берзин The Latvian Chekist who built Dalstroy and colonised Kolyma with forced labour for gold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky Леонид Михайлович Заковский The Hammer of Leningrad Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Sergei Naumovich Mironov Сергей Наумович Миронов The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who opened the mass operations in West Siberia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1940
Shalva Otarovich Tsereteli Шалва Отарович Церетели From tsarist officer to Beria's untitled enforcer in state security Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1955
Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин The NKVD rezident who ran a Gestapo mole and coordinated Soviet atomic espionage in America Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1972
Georgy Yevgenyevich Prokofiev Георгий Евгеньевич Прокофьев The deputy commissar who manufactured the wrecking cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1937
Pavel Petrovich Bulanov Павел Петрович Буланов Yagoda's secretary who staged the Moscow trials and became a defendant himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Izrail Yakovlevich Dagin Израиль Яковлевич Дагин From North Caucasus NKVD chief to government protection head, an executor of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Vladimir Yefimovich Tsesarsky Владимир Ефимович Цесарский Yezhov’s confidant who kept the Great Terror’s ledgers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Zinovy Markovich Ushakov Зиновий Маркович Ушаков The interrogator who beat a confession out of Tukhachevsky, and spoke of beating only once it was his turn Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Richard Gustavovich Sorge Рихард Густавович Зорге The spy who stole the war’s timetable in Tokyo Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1944
Friedrich Jeckeln Friedrich Jeckeln Higher SS and Police Leader who directed the mass shootings at Kamianets-Podilskyi, Babi Yar and Rumbula Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1895–1946
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов The NKGB chief named first in the Katyn order, who wrote plays under a pseudonym Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1953
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin Василий Михайлович Блохин The executioner who served twenty-seven years under three chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1955
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov Александр Михайлович Орлов The NKVD chief in Spain who shipped the Republic's gold to Moscow and broke the POUM, then fled Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1973
Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Israel Moiseyevich Leplevsky Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский The man who drove the Ukrainian mass operations to their peak Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Semyon Borisovich Zhukovsky Семён Борисович Жуковский The trade official who became a deputy commissar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1940
Vasily Fyodorovich Dementiev Василий Фёдорович Дементьев A 'North Caucasian' Chekist moved from Chechnya to Primorye Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1940
Voldemar Avgustovich Ulmer Вольдемар Августович Ульмер Operational secretary of the GUGB whose 'certified' signature closes the Great Terror's operational orders Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1945
Vasily Vasilyevich Chernyshev Василий Васильевич Чернышёв The only Yezhov deputy to survive, who ran the GULAG as Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1952
Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik Николай Сидорович Власик Stalin's shadow for 25 years as head of personal security Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1967
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
Georgy Andreyevich Molchanov Георгий Андреевич Молчанов Yagoda's chief of the Secret Political Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Ignaty Ignatyevich Sosnovsky Игнатий Игнатьевич Сосновский A Polish intelligence agent turned Cheka counter-intelligence officer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kursky Владимир Михайлович Курский The 'North Caucasian' deputy commissar who shot himself at the peak of his career Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Nikolai Kuzmich Kruchinkin Николай Кузьмич Кручинкин Divisional commander who headed the NKVD border and internal troops and was shot Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1938
Aleksey Alekseyevich Nasedkin Алексей Алексеевич Наседкин Smolensk NKVD chief who fabricated the 'Latvian National Centre' case and launched the Latvian operation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1940
Nikolai Galaktionovich Nikolayev-Zhurid Николай Галактионович Николаев-Журид Yezhov's counterintelligence chief who ran the army purge and the national operations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1940
Sergei Mikhailovich Shpigelglas Сергей Михайлович Шпигельглас Architect of NKVD foreign operations during the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1940
Semyon Grigoryevich Firin Семён Григорьевич Фирин The Dmitlag chief who staged the "reforging" propaganda Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1937
Abram Aronovich Slutsky Абрам Аронович Слуцкий The last of Yagoda's department heads, and chief of foreign intelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Pyotr Fyodorovich Bulakh Пётр Фёдорович Булах The Ordzhonikidze NKVD chief who opened fire ahead of schedule Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Yakov Abramovich Deych Яков Абрамович Дейч Yezhov's head of secretariat who went on to sit on the Rostov troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Grigory Fyodorovich Gorbach Григорий Фёдорович Горбач The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who carried quota increases from Omsk to Khabarovsk Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1939
Matvei Davydovich Berman Матвей Давыдович Берман The longest-serving chief who built up the Gulag Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1939
Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev Иван Александрович Мальцев A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Ivan Petrovich Popashenko Иван Петрович Попашенко A 'North Caucasian' Chekist who sat on the mass-operation troika in Kuibyshev Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940

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