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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 185 Government and administration 30 Legislature and state representation 10 Military command 170 Security, intelligence and policing 124 Diplomacy and international organization 47 Economy, finance and planning 85 Industry and production 83 Agriculture and land policy 13 Ideology and propaganda 49 Social movements and organizing 175 Scholarship and theory 13 Education 3 Science and technology 56 Literature and arts 14 Law and justice 21

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party Secretariat and cadres 85

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 175 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 21 Left Opposition 16 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 8 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6

All 70 affiliations

Albania

Party of Labour of Albania 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 2

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 3 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 2

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1 Cordeliers Club 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1 Enragés 1 Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2 Jacobin Club 2

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 8 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Hungary

Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 1

India

Indian National Congress 1

Romania

Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 21 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Narodnaya Volya 6 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 Our Home – Russia 1

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1 African National Congress (ANC) 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 175 ↳ Left Communists 4 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 ↳ Workers' Opposition 2 ↳ Left Opposition 16 ↳ Union of Marxist-Leninists (Ryutin group) 1 Soviet Unionstate 5

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 2 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 4 Democratic Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 2

Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 25 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Marxism and communism 148 Nationalism 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 165 Russia 7 Estonia 2 Spain 1

Background

Any Russia 132 Ukraine 12 Latvia 6 Poland 6 Georgia 5 Belarus 3 Estonia 2 Germany 2 Lithuania 2 Bulgaria 1 Finland 1 Korea 1 Spain 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 3 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 63 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 36 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 42 The last generation1985–1991 24

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 6 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Social movements and organizing Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Clear all

175 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Nikolai Ilyich Belyaev Николай Ильич Беляев Khrushchev loyalist who defended him in 1957, undone by the Temirtau riots Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Averky Borisovich Aristov Аверкий Борисович Аристов Presidium member born a fisherman's son, party cadres chief who loved to fish Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1973
Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1979
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1936
Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1950
Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1982
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Павел Алексеевич Черенков The Soviet Nobel physicist who discovered the Cherenkov effect Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1990
Alexei Alexandrovich Kuznetsov Алексей Александрович Кузнецов Postwar No. 2 in the Party Secretariat, purged in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1950
Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov Иван Васильевич Спиридонов Khrushchev-era Leningrad party boss who proposed removing Stalin's body from the Mausoleum and stumbled over the apparatus's loyalty test Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1967
Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1968
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1975
Vladimir Nikiforovich Malin Владимир Никифорович Малин 11-year keeper of the party's central document flow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1982
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko Андрей Павлович Кириленко Brezhnev-era senior secretary for cadres Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Ho Ka-i Алексей Хегай Principal organizer of the Workers' Party of Korea and leader of its early Soviet faction Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1908–1953
Frol Romanovich Kozlov Фрол Романович Козлов The second secretary whose stroke opened the Brezhnev era Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1965
Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko Алексей Илларионович Кириченко Khrushchev-era secretary for party appointments Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1975
Vladimir Fyodorovich Promyslov Владимир Фёдорович Промыслов The 23-year mayor who built the Brezhnev-era face of Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1993
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 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1994
Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov Константин Викторович Русаков Brezhnev's secretary who ran party-to-party diplomacy with the socialist bloc Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1909–1993
Aleksandr Petrovich Rudakov Александр Петрович Рудаков Heavy-industry secretary in Khrushchev's bifurcated industrial Secretariat Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1966
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц The radio voice of the besieged city Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1975
Georgy Sergeyevich Pavlov Георгий Сергеевич Павлов Brezhnev's 18-year steward of the party treasury and 'party gold' Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1991
Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov Михаил Тимофеевич Ефремов From Volga orphanage boy to Kosygin's deputy premier: a party cadres specialist who ran three obkoms Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1911–2000
Leonid Nikolayevich Yefremov Леонид Николаевич Ефремов The party man who handed Stavropol to Gorbachev, then called him a renegade Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–2007
Nikolai Romanovich Mironov Николай Романович Миронов The party's overseer of the power ministries who organized Khrushchev's removal Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1913–1964
Sergei Mitrofanovich Kovalev Сергей Митрофанович Ковалёв Soviet ideologue who codified the Brezhnev Doctrine in the pages of Pravda Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1913–1990
Nikolai Ivanovich Savinkin Николай Иванович Савинкин The personnel gatekeeper of the Soviet power ministries for 19 years under Brezhnev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1913–1993
Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin Виктор Васильевич Гришин The face of the Brezhnev era who ran Moscow for eighteen years and died while re-applying for his pension Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–1992
Aleksei Mikhailovich Shkolnikov Алексей Михайлович Школьников The apparatchik who ran three oblasts under Khrushchev and rose to People's Control Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–2003
Ivan Vasilyevich Kapitonov Иван Васильевич Капитонов The personnel chief who ran the nomenklatura for 21 years under Brezhnev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1915–2002
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov Александр Михайлович Прохоров Nobel-winning laser co-inventor who helmed the Great Soviet Encyclopedia for three decades Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1916–2002
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург From the H-bomb's 'second idea' to the Nobel Prize: a century-spanning theoretical physicist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1916–2009
Vasily Sergeyevich Tolstikov Василий Сергеевич Толстиков Leningrad party leader during the Thaw who became ambassador to China Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1917–2003
Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov Фёдор Давыдович Кулаков Agriculture secretary seen as a Brezhnev successor whose sudden death opened the seat for Gorbachev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1918–1978
Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin Фёдор Константинович Мортин Sakharovsky's 13-year right hand and the short-lived PGU chief of early détente Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1990
Viktor Mikhailovich Bushuyev Виктор Михайлович Бушуев CC department head who directed the Soviet chemical industry Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–1996
Georgy Emmanuilovich Tsukanov Георгий Эммануилович Цуканов The quiet gatekeeper who controlled Brezhnev's paper flow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–2001
Nikolai Grigoryevich Yegorychev Николай Григорьевич Егорычев The Moscow party boss who challenged Brezhnev and was exiled to diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2005
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв The conservative Second Secretary inside perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2021
Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov Григорий Васильевич Романов From Leningrad to Moscow: the successor halted one step short Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2008
Sergei Iosifovich Manyakin Сергей Иосифович Манякин The longest-serving regional party secretary in Soviet history, who led Omsk for 26 years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2010
Tengiz Evgenyevich Abuladze თენგიზ ევგენის ძე აბულაძე Georgian film director whose Repentance fired the cultural starting gun of glasnost Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1924–1994
Yuri Filippovich Solovyov Юрий Филиппович Соловьёв Ligachev protégé who led Leningrad during early perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1925–2011
Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1927–2015
Oleg Timofeyevich Bogomolov Олег Тимофеевич Богомолов An economist of socialist economic integration and reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2015
Nikolai Yefimovich Kruchina Николай Ефимович Кручина The last treasurer who guarded the party coffers through perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–1991
Yakov Petrovich Pogrebnyak Яков Петрович Погребняк CPU secretary who oversaw the anti-alcohol campaign in Ukraine and testified that Ligachev ordered the Massandra wine library destroyed Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–2016

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