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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 157 Government and administration 22 Legislature and state representation 9 Military command 165 Security, intelligence and policing 124 Diplomacy and international organization 46 Economy, finance and planning 78 Industry and production 83 Agriculture and land policy 11 Ideology and propaganda 48 Social movements and organizing 148 Scholarship and theory 5 Education 3 Science and technology 55 Literature and arts 11 Law and justice 21

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 11

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 157 Communist Party of China 36 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 27 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 18 Soviet Unionstate 16 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 15 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 11 French Communist Party (PCF) 10

All 89 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistanstate 2 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albaniastate 1 Party of Labour of Albania 3

Angola

Angolastate 2 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 5

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgariastate 2 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 5

Cambodia

Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 1 Democratic Kampucheastate 2 People’s Republic of Kampucheastate 1

Chile

Communist Party of Chile 1

China

Communist Party of China 36 Kuomintang 3 People’s Republic of Chinastate 10

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congostate 2 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 2

Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 4

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 5 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 9 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 7 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 4 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 3

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 15 East Germanystate 3

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 1 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 4

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 10 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 3

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 18 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 10 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 6

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Grenada

New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 1 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 5 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 7 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 1 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 3

International organizations

Comintern 4

Italy

Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 5 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 3

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 3

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutionsstate 1

Laos

Laosstate 1 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Mongolia

Mongoliastate 2 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 6

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Polandstate 2 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 11 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 4 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 6 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 5 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 2

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 3 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4

Russia

Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 27 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 4 Our Home – Russia 1

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of South Korea 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 157 Soviet Unionstate 16

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 4 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 1

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 7 Socialist Party of America 2

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 2 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 6

Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 5 South Yemenstate 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 3 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 5

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 17 Socialist-bloc reform leader 6 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 157 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 142 Russia 4 Latvia 2 Moldova 2 Azerbaijan 1 Estonia 1 Hungary 1 Kazakhstan 1 Turkmenistan 1 Ukraine 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 78 Ukraine 10 Latvia 9 Armenia 7 Belarus 7 Georgia 7 Azerbaijan 6 Estonia 6 Uzbekistan 4 Kazakhstan 3 Kyrgyzstan 3 Lithuania 3 Moldova 3 Tajikistan 3 Turkmenistan 3 France 1 Korea 1 Poland 1 Romania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 30 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 29 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 45 The last generation1985–1991 46

People of the wider world

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

Political and party leadership Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Marxism and communism Clear all

157 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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Feliks Yakovlevich Kon Феликс Яковлевич Кон From Warsaw boy patriot to Comintern old revolutionary: the Pole who returned in the sealed train Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1864–1941
Filipp Yeseyevich Makharadze ფილიპე იესეს ძე მახარაძე The Bolshevik elder removed by Stalin for trying to Sovietize Georgia gently Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1941
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
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand Инесса Фёдоровна Арманд The woman Bolshevik closest to Lenin: death saved her from the Purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1874–1920
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
Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1876–1947
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
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1958
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
Vincas Kapsukas Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas Founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party who headed Soviet Lithuania and Litbel Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1880–1935
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
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
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
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
Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt Head of the Estonian Workers' Commune and leader of the 1924 rising Political and party leadership · 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
Alexandra Petrovna Kim Александра Петровна Ким The first Korean communist, who gave her life bridging the Russian Revolution and Korean liberation Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1918
Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1886–1925
Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Григорий Константинович (Серго) Орджоникидзе Commander of the industrial front: he pulled the trigger himself Industry and production · Soviet Union 1886–1937
Béla Kun Kun Béla 133 days of the second Soviet state in Europe, and the execution cellar 19 years later Political and party leadership · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1886–1938
Jānis Ernestovich Rudzutaks Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак Latvian Bolshevik who denounced NKVD case fabrication in court Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1887–1938
Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed Government and administration · Soviet Union 1888–1928
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
Akaki Vissarionovich Kabakhidze Акакий Виссарионович Кабахидзе An Old Bolshevik of the Georgian Affair Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1937
Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1890–1938
Robert Indrikovich Eikhe Роберт Индрикович Эйхе Architect of terror in Siberia, recanted his confession under torture Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1890–1940
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1890–1946
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1890–1986
Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar Влас Яковлевич Чубарь The economic administrator who led Ukraine's government for 11 years, caught between Stalin's demands and the famine Government and administration · Soviet Union 1891–1939
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
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 Government and administration · Soviet Union 1894–1937
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
Mir Jafar Abbasovich Bagirov Мир Аббасович Джафар Багиров Stalin-era party boss who ruled Azerbaijan for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1895–1956
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev Government and administration · Soviet Union 1895–1975

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