People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Background: Belarus
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police
- Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations
- Nikolai Matveyevich Goloded Николай Матвеевич Голодед The decade-long head of Byelorussia's government who signed the Academy purge, then stood in the same dock
- Isaak Ilyich Shapiro Исаак Ильич Шапиро Yezhov's chief of secretariat, keeper of the Great Terror's papers and figures
- Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov Александр Михайлович Орлов The NKVD chief in Spain who shipped the Republic's gold to Moscow and broke the POUM, then fled Stalin
- Israel Moiseyevich Leplevsky Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский The man who drove the Ukrainian mass operations to their peak
- Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev Яков Аркадьевич Яковлев Agriculture commissar of collectivization
- Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik Николай Сидорович Власик Stalin's shadow for 25 years as head of personal security
- Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky Василий Данилович Соколовский A peasant's son from the Grodno lands who framed Soviet nuclear-age strategy
- Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage
- Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war
- Iosif Mikhailovich Turko Иосиф Михайлович Турко A Kuznetsov appointee to the Yaroslavl obkom who was sentenced to 15 years instead of death in the Leningrad Affair
- Alexander Yefimovich Vorontsov Александр Ефимович Воронцов A frontline cameraman who recorded liberation