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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 40 Government and administration 2 Legislature and state representation 2 Military command 19 Security, intelligence and policing 4 Diplomacy and international organization 7 Economy, finance and planning 14 Industry and production 12 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 1 Social movements and organizing 21 Scholarship and theory 4 Science and technology 6 Literature and arts 2 Law and justice 1

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 4 Party Secretariat and cadres 13

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 137 Soviet Union state institutions 115 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 8 Russian Federation state institutions 5 United Russia 3 Our Home – Russia 1

All 6 affiliations

Russia

Russian Federation state institutions 5 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 8 United Russia 3 Our Home – Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 137 Soviet Union state institutions 115

Position

Any Socialist-bloc reform leader 12 Marxism and communism 122 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 137 Russia 8 Estonia 4 Latvia 3 Lithuania 3 Moldova 2 Belarus 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Ukraine 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 96 Ukraine 9 Belarus 7 Armenia 6 Azerbaijan 4 Georgia 3 Kyrgyzstan 3 Estonia 2 Latvia 2 Tajikistan 2 Bulgaria 1 Lithuania 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 202 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 349 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 307 The last generation1985–1991 137

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Citizenship: Soviet Union The last generation 1985–1991 Clear all

137 people

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Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov Фёдор Григорьевич Углов The oldest practicing surgeon in history and the key propagandist of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–2008
Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov Сергей Леонидович Соколов The defence minister removed after the Rust affair Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–2012
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemasov Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов The last Soviet ambassador to watch the GDR dissolve Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1998
Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2010
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв The conservative Second Secretary inside perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2021
Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–2017
Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev Сергей Фёдорович Ахромеев The Soviet Marshal who forged the INF Treaty and could not outlive the USSR Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1991
Pyotr Georgievich Lushev Пётр Георгиевич Лушев The last supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact forces Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1997
Lev Nikolayevich Zaikov Лев Николаевич Зайков The technocrat who rose from defense-plant apprentice to Politburo overseer of the military-industrial complex Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2002
Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev Александр Николаевич Яковлев The architect of glasnost: the ideology chief who dismantled the ideology Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2005
Ivan Moiseevich Tretyak Иван Моисеевич Третьяк Soviet air defence chief who ordered the KAL 007 shootdown Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2007
Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov Валентин Иванович Варенников General who received the Victory Banner and stood alone in the coup dock Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2009
Alexander Yakovlevich Sukharev Александр Яковлевич Сухарев The last reform-era Procurator General of the USSR, who oversaw the legal rehabilitation of Stalin's victims during perestroika Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2021
Karl Genrikhovich Vaino Карл Генрихович Вайно First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party (1978–1988) who resisted perestroika and pushed Russification until Moscow replaced him. Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2022
Tengiz Evgenyevich Abuladze თენგიზ ევგენის ძე აბულაძე Georgian film director whose Repentance fired the cultural starting gun of glasnost Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1924–1994
Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov Георгий Хосроевич Шахназаров Founder of Soviet political science and brains of perestroika's political reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1924–2001
Vasily Aleksandrovich Dinkov Василий Александрович Динков The gas and oil minister who made the USSR the world's largest gas producer Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2001
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov Юрий Павлович Максимов General of the Army who commanded the Strategic Rocket Forces through the Afghan war and the dissolution of the USSR Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2002
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков The KGB chairman who designed the August coup Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2007
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов The last Marshal of the Soviet Union and defence minister of the August coup Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2020
Yuri Filippovich Solovyov Юрий Филиппович Соловьёв Ligachev protégé who led Leningrad during early perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1925–2011
Vladislav Grigoryevich Kolesnikov Владислав Григорьевич Колесников The last Soviet Minister of Electronics, who led microelectronics through perestroika's final years Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2015
Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2012
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2017
Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2018
Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov Яфрэм Евсеевич Сакалоў A Belarusian party leader who combined agricultural development with late-Soviet reform Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2022
Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov The last chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2023
Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin Геннадий Васильевич Колбин The unknown Russian party functionary whose appointment to Kazakhstan ignited the Zheltoksan uprising Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–1998
Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев The last chief of the Soviet railways Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2007
Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев Late Soviet foreign-economic official Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2010
Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov Михаил Иванович Щадов The last Soviet coal minister, who drove open-pit mining and led the miners into the Chernobyl tunnel Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2011
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
Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2013
Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2015
Oleg Timofeyevich Bogomolov Олег Тимофеевич Богомолов An economist of socialist economic integration and reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2015
Mykolas Martinovich Burokevičius Mykolas Burokevičius The only Lithuanian to sit in the CPSU Politburo and the last pro-Moscow party leader, imprisoned for the January Events Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2016
Nikolai Yefimovich Kruchina Николай Ефимович Кручина The last treasurer who guarded the party coffers through perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–1991
Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov Дмитрий Антонович Волкогонов From Soviet military propagandist to the historian who opened the secret archives Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–1995
Igor Sergeyevich Belousov Игорь Сергеевич Белоусов The shipbuilding minister who built the Soviet Navy's strategic parity Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2005
Alexei Dmitrievich Lizichev Алексей Дмитриевич Лизичев The last GlavPUR chief who stood to defend the military political organs through perestroika Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2006
Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2008
Yakov Petrovich Pogrebnyak Яков Петрович Погребняк CPU secretary who oversaw the anti-alcohol campaign in Ukraine and testified that Ligachev ordered the Massandra wine library destroyed Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–2016
Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin Владимир Николаевич Чернавин The last C-in-C of the Soviet Navy, the nuclear submariner who first patrolled under the Arctic ice Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2023
Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–1991
Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–1993
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
Apollon Sergeyevich Systsov Аполлон Сергеевич Сысцов Last Soviet Minister of Aviation Industry: from the Buran shuttle to the privatisation of a military-industrial empire Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2005
Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2008
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov Евгений Максимович Примаков The Arabist premier who turned his plane around over the Atlantic Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2015
Anatoly Ivanovich Mayorets Анатолий Иванович Майорец The last Soviet energy minister sent into the Chernobyl disaster zone Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2016

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