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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 30 Government and administration 6 Legislature and state representation 2 Military command 88 Security, intelligence and policing 84 Diplomacy and international organization 11 Economy, finance and planning 17 Industry and production 34 Agriculture and land policy 4 Ideology and propaganda 12 Social movements and organizing 36 Scholarship and theory 2 Science and technology 13 Literature and arts 3 Law and justice 8

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 1 Party Secretariat and cadres 22

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 381 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 349 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Comintern 4 Nazi party and regime 2 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 General Jewish Labour Bund 2

All 19 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

Estonia

Estonia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

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

International organizations

Comintern 4

Japan

Japan state institutionsstate 1

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 United Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 349 Soviet Unionstate 381

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Marxism and communism 345

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 349

Background

Any Russia 243 Ukraine 32 Belarus 13 Georgia 11 Latvia 11 Armenia 8 Lithuania 7 Poland 6 Germany 4 Azerbaijan 3 Estonia 3 Turkey 2 France 1 Hungary 1 Korea 1 Moldova 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 208 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 349 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 310 The last generation1985–1991 162

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 18 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 6 Scholars of this history1892–현재 2

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks People of the Stalin era 1929–1953 Clear all

349 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Nikolai Galaktionovich Nikolayev-Zhurid Николай Галактионович Николаев-Журид Yezhov's counterintelligence chief who ran the army purge and the national operations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1940
Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов The general who built Soviet tank forces and became their first scapegoat Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1941
Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1897–1942
Mikhail Gr. Grigoryevich Yefremov Михаил Григорьевич Ефремов Commander of the 33rd Army at Moscow, encircled at Vyazma and shot himself when Stalin denied retreat Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1942
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov Леонид Александрович Говоров From Kolchak's White Army to Marshal of the USSR who broke the 900-day siege of Leningrad Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1955
Georgy Fedorovich Zakharov Георгий Фёдорович Захаров Peasant-born Army General who led the 2nd Belorussian Front and was demoted after Bagration Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1957
Nikolai Mikhailovich Rychkov Николай Михайлович Рычков The justice commissar without a law degree who ran Soviet courts for a decade, from the Great Terror through the war-crimes trials Law and justice · Soviet Union 1897–1959
Vladimir Viktorovich Kryukov Владимир Викторович Крюков Hero of the Guards cavalry corps, brought down by the Trophy Case, rehabilitated in the Thaw Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1959
Boris Lvovich Vannikov Борис Львович Ванников Ammunition and atomic administrator under Beria Industry and production · Soviet Union 1897–1962
Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков The marshal who survived NKVD torture to break the Leningrad blockade Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1968
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky Василий Данилович Соколовский A peasant's son from the Grodno lands who framed Soviet nuclear-age strategy Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1968
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina Полина Семёновна Жемчужина The first woman to head a Soviet industrial ministry, Molotov's wife, caught between Kremlin power and Jewish identity Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1897–1970
Ivan Stepanovich Konev Иван Степанович Конев The marshal who made encirclement an art, and became a political soldier in peacetime Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1973
Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky Кузьма Никитович Галицкий Army general who survived the Purge and took Königsberg Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1973
Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan Иван Христофорович Баграмян The first non-Slavic front commander, from Bagration to the Baltic Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1982
Pavel Ivanovich Batov Павел Иванович Батов Master of river crossings who led the 65th Army from Stalingrad to the capture of Stettin Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1985
Semyon Zakharovich Ginzburg Семён Захарович Гинзбург First People's Commissar for Construction, who built wartime industry from the ground up Industry and production · Soviet Union 1897–1993
Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1898–1937
Semyon Grigoryevich Firin Семён Григорьевич Фирин The Dmitlag chief who staged the "reforging" propaganda Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1937
Abram Aronovich Slutsky Абрам Аронович Слуцкий The last of Yagoda's department heads, and chief of foreign intelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Georgy Erikhovich Langemak Георгий Эрихович Лангемак Father of the Katyusha rocket, the engineer who perfected the RS‑82 and RS‑132 and coined the word 'cosmonautics' Industry and production · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Pyotr Fyodorovich Bulakh Пётр Фёдорович Булах The Ordzhonikidze NKVD chief who opened fire ahead of schedule Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Yakov Abramovich Deych Яков Абрамович Дейч Yezhov's head of secretariat who went on to sit on the Rostov troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Grigory Fyodorovich Gorbach Григорий Фёдорович Горбач The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who carried quota increases from Omsk to Khabarovsk Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1939
Matvei Davydovich Berman Матвей Давыдович Берман The longest-serving chief who built up the Gulag Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1939
Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev Иван Александрович Мальцев A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Ivan Petrovich Popashenko Иван Петрович Попашенко A 'North Caucasian' Chekist who sat on the mass-operation troika in Kuibyshev Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky Михаил Петрович Фриновский Yezhov’s iron deputy Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов He staged Lithuania's annexation and took the declaration of war in Berlin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1953
Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsarevsky Михаил Михайлович Царевский The NKVD construction general who built the Mayak plutonium complex Industry and production · Soviet Union 1898–1963
Aleksei Pavlovich Panfilov Алексей Павлович Панфилов The GRU chief whose chemical-warfare intelligence moved Churchill, and the tank lieutenant-general who drove to Berlin Military command · Soviet Union 1898–1966
Ivan Grigoryevich Kabanov Иван Григорьевич Кабанов The wartime electrical industry chief who delivered lithium-6 for the hydrogen bomb, and Stalin's last foreign trade minister Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1898–1972
Georgy Samoilovich Isserson Георгий Самойлович Иссерсон The military theorist who completed the deep-operation trio, and the prophet cast aside Military command · Soviet Union 1898–1976
Boris Arkadyevich Yartsev Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин Risky diplomacy conducted behind an intelligence officer’s cover Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1947
Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1951
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1953
Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1955
Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн The transport chief who assembled the deportation trains Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1955
Stepan Akopovich Akopov Степан Акопович Акопов Armenian production boss from wartime medium machine-building to the postwar auto industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1899–1958
Mikhail Sergeyevich Malinin Михаил Сергеевич Малинин Rokossovsky's indispensable chief of staff, planner of the great offensives Military command · Soviet Union 1899–1960
Andrei Grigorievich Kravchenko Андрей Григорьевич Кравченко The tank army commander who led the Red Army's elite armor from Stalingrad to Manchuria Military command · Soviet Union 1899–1963
Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov Николай Николаевич Воронов Architect of Red Army artillery who wove the Stalingrad encirclement Military command · Soviet Union 1899–1968
Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1899–1968
Filipp Sergeyevich Oktyabrsky Филипп Сергеевич Октябрьский Admiral who led the Black Sea Fleet in the defence of Odessa and Sevastopol, and remains at the centre of the evacuation controversy Military command · Soviet Union 1899–1969
Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein Семён Моисеевич Кривошеин The Soviet tank general who reviewed the Brest parade with Guderian and held Oboyan at Kursk Military command · Soviet Union 1899–1978
Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1981
Alexander Grigoryevich Barmine Александр Григорьевич Бармин The Soviet GRU brigadier general who fled Stalin's purges and became one of the few defectors the hunters never caught Military command · Soviet Union 1899–1987
Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern Григорий Михайлович Штерн Victor of Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol, purged Far Eastern Front commander Military command · Soviet Union 1900–1941
Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1954
Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava Лаврентий Фомич Цанава "Second Lavrentiy"; Beria's man who ran the Mikhoels killing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1955

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