People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 93 Soviet Unionstate 83 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Ukrainian People's Republicstate 7 Soviet Ukrainestate 3 Left Opposition 3 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 2 Comintern 2 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

All 20 affiliations

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 1

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

International organizations

Comintern 2

Russia

Russian Empirestate 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 Russian Orthodox Church 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 93 ↳ Left Communists 1 ↳ Left Opposition 3 Soviet Unionstate 83

Ukraine

Ukraine state institutionsstate 1 Ukrainian People's Republicstate 7 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 2 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 3 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Soviet Union 1
Background(set)
Any Russia 10 Ukraine 1
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The last generation1985–1991 1
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) Background: Ukraine Clear all
GlossaryCommunist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Gubenko

Николай Николаевич Губенко
Soviet Union Soviet communism Soviet Union Ukraine 1941–2020 ○ Natural causes

The last Soviet culture minister

In his diploma performance as Hitler, Gubenko poured all his hatred for the man who killed his parents into the role. Lyubimov saw it and immediately brought him to the Taganka Theatre.

An actor and film director who rose from war orphan to People's Artist of the RSFSR. He was the first working arts professional to become Soviet Minister of Culture (1989–1991) since Anatoly Lunacharsky. After the USSR collapsed, he entered left-wing politics, serving as chair of the Duma's Culture Committee and deputy speaker of the Moscow City Duma, where he defended Soviet cultural heritage. Following the Taganka Theatre split, he founded and led the Sodruzhestvo Aktyorov Taganki until his death in 2020.

Career timeline
  • 1989–1991Minister of Culture