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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

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 Party Secretariat and cadres 83

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1008 Soviet Union state institutions 963 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 144 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Left Opposition 16 Comintern 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 15 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11

All 50 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 3

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutions 1

Germany

Nazi party and regime 2 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 16

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutions 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 32 Socialist-bloc reform leader 15 Dissident 3 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 950 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 1008 Russia 26 Estonia 5 Hungary 3 Latvia 3 Lithuania 3 Moldova 2 Ukraine 2 Azerbaijan 1 Belarus 1 Bulgaria 1 East Germany 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Spain 1 Turkmenistan 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 703 Ukraine 90 Belarus 39 Georgia 26 Latvia 25 Armenia 23 Poland 20 Lithuania 15 Azerbaijan 11 Estonia 9 Germany 7 Kyrgyzstan 5 Moldova 5 Uzbekistan 5 Finland 4 Kazakhstan 3 Tajikistan 3 Bulgaria 2 France 2 Korea 2 Turkey 2 Turkmenistan 2 Hungary 1

Era

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 Clear all

1008 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions 1882–1940
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1941
Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov Борис Михайлович Шапошников The only officer Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, author of The Brain of the Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1945
Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1952
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 state institutions 1882–1955
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
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
Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1927
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
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1938
Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Александр Ильич Егоров The Southern Front commander who broke Denikin: the last of the first five marshals whose name was erased Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1939
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1940
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
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev Алексей Егорович Бадаев Official publisher of Pravda who rose from Duma deputy to nominal head of the Russian republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1951
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1954
Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1954
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1973
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1927
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1936
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
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
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
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1941
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
Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1965
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov Яков Михайлович Свердлов The organizer who linked party and state after October Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1919
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1925
Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1925
Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1885–1936
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
Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev Сергей Павлович Медведев The metalworker who co-led the Workers' Opposition, defeated by the party machine, consumed by the Purge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1937
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1938
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1949
Yefim Afanasievich Shchadenko Ефим Афанасьевич Щаденко From 1st Cavalry Army commissar to the purge's personnel executioner Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1951
Alexander Yakovlevich Parkhomenko Александр Яковлевич Пархоменко Civil War commander who helped defend Tsaritsyn and establish Soviet power in Ukraine Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1921
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

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