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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 161 Government and administration 21 Legislature and state representation 9 Military command 170 Security, intelligence and policing 123 Diplomacy and international organization 45 Economy, finance and planning 84 Industry and production 83 Agriculture and land policy 13 Ideology and propaganda 48 Social movements and organizing 165 Scholarship and theory 12 Education 3 Science and technology 54 Literature and arts 14 Law and justice 20

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 11

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 161 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 34 Soviet Union state institutions 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 5 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 3

All 27 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 3

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 1

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 17 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 142 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 161 Russia 7 Estonia 3 Latvia 3 Lithuania 2 Moldova 2 Azerbaijan 1 Hungary 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Turkmenistan 1 Ukraine 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 89 Ukraine 10 Georgia 8 Latvia 8 Armenia 7 Belarus 7 Azerbaijan 5 Estonia 5 Kyrgyzstan 3 Lithuania 3 Tajikistan 3 Uzbekistan 3 Kazakhstan 2 Poland 2 Turkmenistan 2 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Moldova 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 43 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 30 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 44 The last generation1985–1991 40

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 4

Political and party leadership Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

161 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Feliks Yakovlevich Kon Феликс Яковлевич Кон From Warsaw boy patriot to Comintern old revolutionary: the Pole who returned in the sealed train Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1864–1941
Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ფილიპე იესეს ძე მახარაძე The Bolshevik elder removed by Stalin for trying to Sovietize Georgia gently Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1941
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1869–1939
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин The helmsman who changed course at every fork Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1870–1924
Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов The man who made Lenin furious over philosophy, then died swapping his own blood: a forerunner of cybernetics Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1928
Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1873–1941
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand Инесса Фёдоровна Арманд The woman Bolshevik closest to Lenin: death saved her from the Purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1920
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1875–1946
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1941
Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1876–1947
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1878–1924
Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1943
Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1945
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1958
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1879–1940
Vincas Kapsukas Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas Founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party who headed Soviet Lithuania and Litbel Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1880–1935
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1919
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt Head of the Estonian Workers' Commune and leader of the 1924 rising Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Alexander Gavrilovich Shlyapnikov Александр Гаврилович Шляпников Leader of the Workers' Opposition, defeated by Lenin, devoured by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1925
Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Григорий Константинович (Серго) Орджоникидзе Commander of the industrial front: he pulled the trigger himself Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1937
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Jānis Ernestovich Rudzutaks Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак Latvian Bolshevik who denounced NKVD case fabrication in court Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1928
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1935
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1970
Akaki Vissarionovich Kabakhidze Акакий Виссарионович Кабахидзе An Old Bolshevik of the Georgian Affair Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1937
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov Георгий Леонидович Пятаков The Bolshevik between revolution and the industrial plan Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1890–1937
Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46 Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1890–1937
Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1890–1938
Robert Indrikovich Eikhe Роберт Индрикович Эйхе Architect of terror in Siberia, recanted his confession under torture Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1940
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1946

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