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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

Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky Михаил Петрович Фриновский Yezhov’s iron deputy Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
László Baky Baky László Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre Government and administration · Hungary 1898–1946
Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов He staged Lithuania's annexation and took the declaration of war in Berlin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1953
Ernst Wollweber Ernst Wollweber Communist who ran an anti-fascist sabotage network before the war and headed the Stasi from 1953 to 1957 Security, intelligence and policing · East Germany 1898–1967
Kang Sheng 康生 Mao’s inquisitor who ran party security and intelligence from the Yan’an “rescue” campaign to the Cultural Revolution Security, intelligence and policing · People’s Republic of China 1898–1975
Ignace Stanislavovich Reiss Игнатий Станиславович Рейсс Soviet illegal who broke publicly with Stalin and was murdered by the NKVD Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1937
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky Вальтер Германович Кривицкий The defector who first told the West how Stalin's secret service worked Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1941
Boris Arkadyevich Yartsev Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин Risky diplomacy conducted behind an intelligence officer’s cover Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1947
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1953
Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1955
Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн The transport chief who assembled the deportation trains Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1955
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 1899–1981
Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1929
Vasily Abramovich Karutsky Василий Абрамович Каруцкий NKVD chief who sat on a mass-operation troika and killed himself before his arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1938
Ivan Yakovlevich Lavrushin Иван Яковлевич Лаврушин NKVD chief who chaired the Gorky oblast troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1940
Walter Stahlecker Walter Stahlecker SS officer who led Einsatzgruppe A in 1941, instigating the Kaunas pogrom and directing the murder of Baltic Jews Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1900–1942
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler A principal architect of the Nazi racial state Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1900–1945
Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1954
Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava Лаврентий Фомич Цанава "Second Lavrentiy"; Beria's man who ran the Mikhoels killing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1955
Pyotr Vasilyevich Fedotov Пётр Васильевич Федотов 38-year Chekist who commanded both counterintelligence and foreign intelligence from Cheka to KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1963
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov Сергей Иванович Огольцов An operative who spanned every iteration of Soviet state security across 35 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1976
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1900–1984
Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1939
Dmitry Matveyevich Dmitriev Дмитрий Матвеевич Дмитриев The Sverdlovsk NKVD chief whose testimony first unspooled the 'NKVD conspiracy' Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1939
Hotsumi Ozaki 尾崎秀実 Konoe's confidant and the spy who helped save Moscow Security, intelligence and policing 1901–1944
Sergo Arsenievich Goglidze Сергей Арсеньевич Гоглидзе From running the terror in Georgia to overlord of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1953
Nikolai Nikolayevich Selivanovsky Николай Николаевич Селивановский The counterintelligence officer who bypassed the chain of command and telegraphed Stalin to replace Stalingrad's commander Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1997
Semyon Grigoryevich Gendin Семён Григорьевич Гендин Cheka-bred intelligence officer who led the GRU during the Great Purge and saved Sorge's Tokyo station Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1939
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky Александр Иванович Успенский The Ukrainian NKVD chief who faked his suicide and ran Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1940
Viktor Pavlovich Zhuravlev Виктор Павлович Журавлёв Author of the letter that brought Yezhov down Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1946
Grigory Teofilovich Karanadze Григорий Теофилович Каранадзе The Georgian interior minister who survived the purge Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1970
Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1976
Mikhail Pavlovich Shreyder Михаил Павлович Шрейдер Insider chronicler of the NKVD during the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1978
John Alexander McCone John Alexander McCone CIA director who alone warned that Soviet missiles were coming to Cuba Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1902–1991
Timofei Amvrosievich Strokach Тимофей Амвросиевич Строкач The Ukrainian MVD chief whose warning to Khrushchev, after Beria threatened to make him 'camp dust,' triggered Beria's arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1903–1963
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
Sardion Nikolayevich Nadaraya Сардион Николаевич Надарая Beria's bodyguard chief, formerly of the internal prison Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1903–1982
Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich Nazi official who led SS intelligence and police agencies in implementing the Holocaust. Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions 1904–1942
Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov Богдан Захарович Кобулов Beria's closest deputy, executor of Katyn and the mass deportations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1953
Sergei Romanovich Savchenko Сергей Романович Савченко The state security chief who dismantled the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by force, then ran Soviet foreign intelligence in late Stalinism Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1966
Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev Семён Денисович Игнатьев The last MGB minister of Stalin’s final years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1983
Vasily Stepanovich Ryasnoy Василий Степанович Рясной NKVD chief who directed the suppression of Ukraine's nationalist insurgency Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1995
Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1940
Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin Виктор Григорьевич Наседкин The camp empire's administrator who ran the GULAG through the Great Patriotic War Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1950
Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский Head of the unit for especially important cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1953
Anatoly Alexandrovich Esaulov Анатолий Александрович Эсаулов The interrogator of Yezhov: the hand that kept the record as the machine devoured its own master Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1954
Konstantin Sergeyevich Savitsky Константин Сергеевич Савицкий Kobulov's personal secretary, condemned in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1955
Nikolai Maksimovich Rukhadze Николай Максимович Рухадзе He drove the Mingrelian affair and then fell himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1955
Boris Rodos Борис Вениаминович Родос The Great Purge's chief interrogator: NKVD Investigation Deputy Chief who broke Politburo members, generals, and writers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1956
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

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