People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Government and administration 1 Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Russian Empirestate 51 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 26 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Russian White movement 18 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 18 Soviet Unionstate 17 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 5 Our Home – Russia 2

All 24 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 51 Russian White movement 18 Russian Federation state institutionsstate 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 3 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 5 Russian Provisional Governmentstate 4 Russian Orthodox Church 4 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 18 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 26 Soviet Unionstate 17

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 2

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 1 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 1
Position
Any Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1
Citizenship(set)
Any Russia 2 Soviet Union 1
Background
Any Russia 2
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The last generation1985–1991 1

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Our Home – Russia Citizenship: Russia Clear all
GlossaryOur Home – Russia

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak

Анатолий Александрович Собчак
Russian Federation state institutions Socialist-bloc reform leader Russian Russian 1937–2000 ○ Heart attack

Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg

"Volodya, just don't turn to bronze" — last words to Putin, February 2000

Anatoly Sobchak was a legal scholar and democratic reformer who became the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg (1991–1996) and co-authored the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation as chairman of the Constitutional Assembly. A popular Leningrad State University law professor whose students included Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, he was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies in 1989 and co-chaired the Inter-Regional Deputies Group alongside Andrei Sakharov and Boris Yeltsin. During the August 1991 coup he organized resistance in Leningrad, negotiating with the military commander to keep troops off the streets and rallying 200,000 citizens on Palace Square. Corruption allegations forced him into exile in Paris from 1997 until Putin, then prime minister, secured his return in 1999.

Career timeline
  • 1989–1990USSR People's Deputy
  • 1989–1990Co-chair, Inter-Regional Deputies Group (with Sakharov & Yeltsin)
  • 1990–1991Chairman, Leningrad City Council
  • 1991–1996Mayor of Saint Petersburg
  • 1993Chairman, Constitutional Assembly (co-drafted Russian Constitution)
  • 1997–1999Exile in Paris

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Владимир Владимирович Путин
Russian Federation state institutions Conservatism and Christian democracy Russia Russian 1952–

A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration

“The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”

Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and former Soviet security officer who rose to national power amid the crises of the 1990s. Alternating between the presidency and premiership, he strengthened federal and presidential authority while making the restoration of Russia’s international influence a central narrative of rule. In 2005, he called the Soviet collapse “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” a remark that condensed his memory of dissolution as a Russian experience of loss and dislocation. His rule also narrowed political competition and independent media while expanding the state’s military interventions abroad.

Career timeline
  • 1975–1991Officer, KGB of the Soviet Union
  • 1990–1996Head of the Committee for External Relations and senior deputy official, Saint Petersburg administration
  • 1998–1999Director, Federal Security Service (FSB)
  • 1999Secretary, Security Council of the Russian Federation
  • 1999–2000Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
  • 2000–2008President of the Russian Federation
  • 2008–2012Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
  • 2012–President of the Russian Federation