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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 94 Government and administration 15 Legislature and state representation 2 Military command 126 Security, intelligence and policing 73 Diplomacy and international organization 30 Economy, finance and planning 74 Industry and production 67 Agriculture and land policy 9 Ideology and propaganda 41 Social movements and organizing 132 Scholarship and theory 7 Education 3 Science and technology 39 Literature and arts 9 Law and justice 15

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 8

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 94 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 23 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 11 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Soviet Unionstate 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3

All 25 affiliations

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 2

International organizations

Comintern 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Mongolia

Mongoliastate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 2 Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 11 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 6 Narodnaya Volya 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 23 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 94 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 ↳ Workers' Opposition 1 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1 Soviet Unionstate 4

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 12 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 78 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 89 Russia 5

Background(set)

Any Russia 94 Latvia 11 Ukraine 11 Estonia 8 Georgia 8 Armenia 7 Belarus 7 Azerbaijan 6 Lithuania 5 Kyrgyzstan 4 Uzbekistan 4 Kazakhstan 3 Moldova 3 Poland 3 Tajikistan 3 Turkmenistan 3 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Korea 1 Romania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 30 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 18 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 22 The last generation1985–1991 22

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1

Political and party leadership Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Background: Russia Clear all

94 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband Education · Soviet Union 1869–1939
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Владимир Ильич Ленин The helmsman who changed course at every fork Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1870–1924
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1873–1918
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1875–1946
Konkordia Nikolayevna Samoilova Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова Founder of Rabotnitsa and organizer of Russia's first International Women's Day Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1921
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1876–1941
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1878–1924
Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1943
Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1945
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union 1879–1940
Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1879–1967
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
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
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 1883–1936
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
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union 1884–1928
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
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union 1884–1938
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
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1935
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1939
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1888–1970
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46 Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine 1890–1937
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1890–1986
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp Political and party leadership · Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1892–1947
Sergei Ivanovich Syrtsov Сергей Иванович Сырцов The RSFSR premier who turned against Stalin from Siberia Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв He opened the coffin lid, and became the first leader to die in bed Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1971
Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky Григорий Наумович Каминский First USSR People's Commissar for Health, a founder of Soviet preventive medicine Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev Government and administration · Soviet Union 1895–1975
Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1896–1917
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1896–1948
Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1957
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1898–1979
Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov Николай Григорьевич Игнатов The man who saved Khrushchev and then helped destroy him Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1966
Nikolai Nikolayevich Organov Николай Николаевич Органов RSFSR formal head of state who once sat on an NKVD execution troika Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1982
Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Malyshev Вячеслав Александрович Малышев Production boss from tanks to atomic industry Industry and production · Soviet Union 1902–1957
Filipp Yegorovich Mikheyev Филипп Егорович Михеев An administrator swept into the Leningrad purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1975
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1902–1982
Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1903–1950

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