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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

Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin Александр Семёнович Панюшкин Soviet foreign intelligence chief who directed operations under ambassadorial cover in China and the United States Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1974
Ivan Alexandrovich Serov Иван Александрович Серов The first chairman of the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1990
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1993
Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан Released in 1938, shot in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann SS officer who ran the deportation of Europe’s Jews to the death camps and in 1944 oversaw that of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1906–1962
Nikolai Pavlovich Dudorov Николай Павлович Дудоров Khrushchev's civilian interior minister who tried and failed to dismantle the informant system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1977
Luo Ruiqing 罗瑞卿 First minister of public security and chief of the general staff, purged on the eve of the Cultural Revolution as Lin Biao’s target Security, intelligence and policing · People’s Republic of China 1906–1978
Gábor Péter Péter Gábor Founder of Hungary's secret police, and its prisoner Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1906–1993
Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartsman Лев Леонидович (Аронович) Шварцман MGB's most brutal interrogator, killer of Blyukher, Babel, and Meyerhold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1955
Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukhodolsky Владимир Николаевич Суходольский NKVD major-general who led Tula's wartime defence and fell from grace Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1966
Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin Павел Михайлович Фитин The man who rebuilt foreign intelligence from the wreckage of the Yezhovshchina and stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1971
Sergey Nikiforovich Kruglov Сергей Никифорович Круглов The last NKVD People's Commissar, the longest-serving MVD minister, killed by a train Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1977
Konstantin Fyodorovich Lunev Константин Фёдорович Лунёв A party cadre elevated into the security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1980
Alexander Ivanovich Langfang Александр Иванович Лангфанг An interrogator convicted of falsifying cases and torturing prisoners Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1990
Georgy Karpovich Tsinev Георгий Карпович Цинёв Brezhnev's other pair of eyes inside the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1996
Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов Stalin’s spymaster who eliminated Trotsky, then spent fifteen years in Stalin’s prisons Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1996
Erich Fritz Emil Mielke Erich Mielke East Germany's 'Master of Fear': the Stasi chief who ruled state security for 32 years Security, intelligence and policing · East Germany 1907–2000
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Виктор Семёнович Абакумов Stalin's security chief who commanded SMERSH and ruled the MGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1908–1954
Josef Pavel Josef Pavel Prague Spring interior minister whose security reforms were undermined by KGB subversion and internal betrayal Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia 1908–1973
Teohari Georgescu Teohari Georgescu The first communist interior minister, builder of the Securitate, purged in 1952 alongside Pauker and Luca for "shielding" them Security, intelligence and policing · Romania 1908–1976
Edward Geary Lansdale Edward Lansdale The Mongoose architect whose six-phase Cuba overthrow plan convinced the Soviets invasion was coming Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1908–1987
László Rajk Rajk László Interior minister who built the ÁVH secret police, then fell as the first major victim of Stalinist show trials in Eastern Europe Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1909–1949
Aleksandar Ranković Александар Ранковић Tito's third man, who directed the Cominform purges Security, intelligence and policing · Yugoslavia 1909–1983
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Sakharovsky Александр Михайлович Сахаровский State-security officer who led Soviet foreign intelligence for 15 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1909–1983
René Bousquet René Bousquet Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions 1909–1993
Pyotr Ivanovich Ivashutin Пётр Иванович Ивашутин The KGB man who led the GRU for 24 years: Soviet military intelligence's longest-serving chief Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1909–2002
Pavel Yakovlevich Meshik Павел Яковлевич Мешик Beria's inner circle and an organiser of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1910–1953
Nikolai Anisimovich Shchelokov Николай Анисимович Щёлоков Brezhnev's 16-year police chief who rebuilt the MVD into a modern force Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1910–1984
Viktors Arājs Viktors Arājs Latvian former policeman whose Arajs Kommando, under the SS Security Service, murdered about half of Latvia’s Jews Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1910–1988
Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov Николай Иванович Кузнецов Soviet spy who posed as a German officer in Nazi-occupied Ukraine and personally eliminated high-ranking officials Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1911–1944
Koçi son of Dhimitër Xoxe Koçi Xoxe Albania's postwar interior minister and deputy premier Security, intelligence and policing · Albania 1911–1949
Vasily Mikhailovich Vinevitin Василий Михайлович Виневитин The NKVD sniper lieutenant who shot the Japanese gendarme on Frinovsky's order Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1938
Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин Engineer of the Doctors' Plot, NKVD bookkeeper turned deputy minister Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1954
Nikita Arkadyevich Krimyan Никита Аркадьевич Кримян The investigator who became Armenia's security minister at thirty-one Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1955
Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1913–1991
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov Юрий Владимирович Андропов The paradox: a reformer’s patron inside the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1914–1984
Juan Pujol García Juan Pujol García The double agent who made fiction a strategic weapon Security, intelligence and policing · United Kingdom state institutions 1914–1988
Arthur Lundahl Arthur C. Lundahl The founding father of photo interpretation whose analysts spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba and triggered the crisis Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1915–1992
Józef Światło Józef Światło Deputy head of Poland’s security Department X whose 1953 defection and broadcasts exposed the ministry’s torture and purges Security, intelligence and policing · Poland 1915–1994
Yevgeny Petrovich Pitovranov Евгений Петрович Питовранов A survivor who transformed from Stalin's counter-intelligence chief to Brezhnev's trade diplomat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1915–1999
Vladimir Ivanovich Komarov Владимир Иванович Комаров Abakumov's deputy interrogator who beat prisoners and fabricated protocols in the Leningrad Affair Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1916–1954
Wang Dongxing 汪东兴 Mao’s bodyguard chief whose Zhongnanhai Unit 8341 arrested the Gang of Four, then pushed aside for the “two whatevers” Security, intelligence and policing · People’s Republic of China 1916–2015
Semyon Kuzmich Tsvigun Семён Кузьмич Цвигун Brezhnev's watcher planted beside Andropov Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1917–1982
Vadim Aleksandrovich Matrosov Вадим Александрович Матросов The military axis of the KGB: 17 years commanding the border army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1917–1999
Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin Фёдор Константинович Мортин Sakharovsky's 13-year right hand and the short-lived PGU chief of early détente Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1990
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1994
Ivan Kirillovich Yakovlev Иван Кириллович Яковлев The MVD general who turned the Internal Troops into a mobile strike force and sealed Chernobyl Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2002
Grigory Fyodorovich Grigorenko Григорий Фёдорович Григоренко Architect of Soviet counterintelligence for 40 years, from SMERSH radio games to chief of the KGB Second Chief Directorate Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2007
Vitaly Vasilyevich Fedorchuk Виталий Васильевич Федорчук The brief KGB chairman after Andropov Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2008

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