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People of the Revolution and the USSR
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People of the Soviet Union
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Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский
The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1871–1923
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин
The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1936
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Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов
The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1876–1951
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Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский
The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1878–1952
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Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი
Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Diplomacy and international organization · Georgia state institutions
1881–1954
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Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий
From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1938
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Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский
From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1955
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев
He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский
ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943)
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1959
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Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин
Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1884–1951
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Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский
From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1884–1975
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Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин
Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1890–1938
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов
“Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1890–1986
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Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников
From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1892–1939