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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 3 Government and administration 15 Legislature and state representation 3 Military command 33 Security, intelligence and policing 22 Diplomacy and international organization 11 Economy, finance and planning 26 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 4 Ideology and propaganda 15 Social movements and organizing 1 Scholarship and theory 2 Education 4 Science and technology 4 Literature and arts 4 Law and justice 9

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party Secretariat and cadres 1 Heads of government 6 Military and defence 28 State security agencies 20 Ideology and propaganda 9 Culture and literary control 3 Formal heads of state 1 Foreign affairs 10 Nationalities and federal management 3 Central planning agencies 10 Economic management 15 Heavy industry and military industry 3 Agriculture 3 Science, nuclear and space development 3

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 176 Soviet Unionstate 148 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 87 Comintern 7 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 3 Ukrainian People's Republicstate 2

All 14 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

International organizations

Comintern 7

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 2 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 3

Russia

Russian Empirestate 2 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 87

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 176 Soviet Unionstate 148

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 2 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 2

Position(set)

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 18 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 148

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 143 Russia 5

Background

Any Russia 96 Ukraine 11 Poland 9 Belarus 6 Latvia 6 Armenia 3 Moldova 3 Estonia 2 Germany 2 Lithuania 2 Azerbaijan 1 France 1 Georgia 1 Kazakhstan 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 148 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 379 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 298 The last generation1985–1991 123

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 5 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Soviet Union (state) Marxism and communism The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

148 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky Александр Петрович Карпинский First elected Academy president who steered science through the Revolution Science and technology · Soviet Union 1847–1936
Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1863–1933
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1864–1935
Pēteris Ivanovich Stučka Пётр Иванович Стучка Architect of Soviet Marxist legal theory who defined law as class relations Law and justice · Soviet Union 1865–1932
Andrei Yevgenyevich Snesarev Андрей Евгеньевич Снесарев Tsarist general turned Red Army theorist who clashed with Stalin at Tsaritsyn Military command · Soviet Union 1865–1937
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1932
Alexander Grigorievich Shlikhter Александр Григорьевич Шлихтер Bolshevik agrarian policymaker: first Agriculture Commissar, later VP of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1868–1940
Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1944
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
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years Law and justice · Soviet Union 1869–1944
Nariman Najaf oglu Narimanov Нариман Наджаф оглы Нариманов From Azerbaijani Enlightener to a Head of the Soviet State Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1870–1925
Leonid Borisovich Krasin Леонид Борисович Красин From revolutionary engineer to Soviet diplomatic architect, the only Bolshevik who could do business with Western capital Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1870–1926
Alexander Dmitrievich Tsyurupa Александр Дмитриевич Цюрупа The Civil War food administrator who designed the grain dictatorship Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1870–1928
Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1870–1928
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1870–1939
Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich Михаил Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич The first Imperial general to join the Bolsheviks: military director who led the founding of the Red Army Military command · Soviet Union 1870–1956
Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1871–1923
Fyodor Aronovich Rothstein Фёдор Аронович Ротштейн Bolshevik historian who became Soviet Russia's first ambassador to Persia after thirty years of exile in Britain Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1871–1953
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1872–1933
Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev Павел Павлович Лебедев From tsarist major general to first Chief of the Red Army Staff, operational architect of Civil War victory Military command · Soviet Union 1872–1933
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1872–1936
Aron Aleksandrovich Solts Арон Александрович Сольц The Bolshevik elder called 'conscience of the party': jurist who confronted the Prosecutor General during the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1872–1945
Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1950
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1872–1952
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1959
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
Jukums Ioakimovich Vācietis Jukums Иоакимович Vācietis The Red Army's first commander-in-chief: an Imperial colonel who built the revolutionary armed forces Military command · Soviet Union 1873–1938
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire Government and administration · Soviet Union 1873–1955
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
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union 1874–1932
Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line Military command · Soviet Union 1874–1933
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1874–1934
Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich Пётр Гермогенович Смидович Iskra agent across three revolutions, KOMZET chairman who shaped Soviet nationality policy and the Birobidzhan Jewish experiment Government and administration · Soviet Union 1874–1935
Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1874–1939
Vladimir Gustavovich Groman Владимир Густавович Громан The Menshevik statistician who designed Gosplan's early control figures and balance method, leading voice of genetic planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1874–1940
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Николай Александрович Семашко Founder of Soviet public health who designed free universal healthcare (the 'Semashko model') Science and technology · Soviet Union 1874–1949
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1875–1937
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1876–1937
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1876–1941
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1877–1926
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1877–1937
Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1877–1938
Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune Government and administration · Soviet Union 1878–1918
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1878–1937
Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин 'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1941
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1937

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