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People
Activity
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
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Yevsei Grigoryevich Liberman Евсей Григорьевич Либерман
Theoretical catalyst of the 1965 Soviet economic reform
Scholarship and theory
1897–1981
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Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов
An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1989
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Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev Алексей Матвеевич Румянцев
The political economist who opened Khrushchev's economic debate, and institutional founder of Soviet sociology
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1993
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Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев
A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1918–2010
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Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov Георгий Аркадьевич Арбатов
The USSR's preeminent Americanist who built a think-tank on Arbat Street, not in Akademgorodok, and designed détente
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1923–2010
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Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya Татьяна Ивановна Заславская
Founder of Soviet economic sociology; her 1983 report lit the intellectual fuse of perestroika
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions
1927–2013
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Ivan Timofeyevich Frolov Иван Тимофеевич Фролов
The philosopher who gave perestroika its humanist foundations: from defending genetics to founding the science of Man
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1929–1999
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Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin Леонид Иванович Абалкин
Chief economic theorist of late perestroika, architect of the 'regulated market' between radical reformers and conservative planners
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1930–2011
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Arnold Vasilyevich Voylukov Арнольд Васильевич Войлуков
The Soviet banker who testified about reform's hidden origins
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1932–2016
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Stanislav Sergeyevich Shatalin Станислав Сергеевич Шаталин
Architect of the 500 Days programme, radical reform economist who tried to convert the Soviet planned economy to the market in one leap
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1934–1997
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Yuri Nikolayevich Afanasyev Юрий Николаевич Афанасьев
The historian who called the conservative majority 'aggressively obedient'
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1934–2015
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Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov Гавриил Харитонович Попов
Moscow's first elected mayor, who told the U.S. ambassador of the coming coup
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1936–
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Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анатолий Александрович Собчак
Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1937–2000
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Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis Геннадий Эдуардович Бурбулис
The philosopher who proposed the one sentence that declared the Soviet Union dead at Belovezh
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1945–2022
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Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy Александр Владимирович Руцкой
Russia's only vice president: stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1947–
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Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky Григорий Алексеевич Явлинский
Architect of the 500 Days Program: perestroika economist who drafted a rapid transition from planned economy to market
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1952–
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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar Егор Тимурович Гайдар
Architect of shock therapy, the economist who dismantled the planned economy and laid the first stones of Russian capitalism
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1956–2009