People of the Revolution and the USSR
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
Background: Georgia
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
- Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Григорий Константинович (Серго) Орджоникидзе Commander of the industrial front: he pulled the trigger himself
- Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization
- Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов He staged Lithuania's annexation and took the declaration of war in Berlin
- Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms
- Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade
- Grigory Artemyevich Arutinov Григорий Артемьевич Арутинов 'Grigory the Builder': led Soviet Armenia for 16 years under Stalin, driving industrialization and a national cultural revival
- Sergo Arsenievich Goglidze Сергей Арсеньевич Гоглидзе From running the terror in Georgia to overlord of the Far East
- Grigory Teofilovich Karanadze Григорий Теофилович Каранадзе The Georgian interior minister who survived the purge
- Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat
- Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow