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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
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Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский
From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine
1873–1941
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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
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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
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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
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Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош
First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine
1879–1925
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Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen
Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918
Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP)
1880–1937
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Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков
Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1881–1938
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Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling
Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1881–1938
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Prosh Perchevich Proshian Прош Перчевич Прошьян
Left SR People's Commissar in the first Soviet coalition: 'the core of the party'
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1883–1918
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1883–1921
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Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов
Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–1918
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Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев
A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–?
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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
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Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч
Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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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
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Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов
Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди
Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1970
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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
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Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов
Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1891–1940
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Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов
Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1892–1938
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Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба
Stalin's closest friend turned Beria's first victim: the red prince of Abkhazia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1893–1936
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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
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Turar Ryskulovich Ryskulov Турар Рыскулович Рыскулов
The Kazakh Bolshevik strategist who argued for a unified Turkestan against Stalin's national delimitation
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1894–1938
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Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko Демьян Сергеевич Коротченко
Khrushchev's loyal executor: a peasant-born apparatchik who twice led Soviet Ukraine's government
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1894–1969
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Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov Иван Сергеевич Хохлов
The weaver who became wartime premier of the Russian republic
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1895–1973
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин
The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1895–1975
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Faizulla Gubaidullayevich Khodzhayev Файзулла Губайдуллаевич Ходжаев
Son of a Bukharan merchant who rose from the Jadid reform movement to become the first head of government of Soviet Uzbekistan
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1896–1938
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Serafima Alexandrovna Ryzhova Серафима Александровна Рыжова
Yezhov’s longtime secretary, source of the first deposition against him
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1898–1940
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Konstantin Dmitriyevich Pamfilov Константин Дмитриевич Памфилов
Wartime RSFSR acting premier who oversaw civilian evacuation amid the Moscow panic
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1901–1943
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Pyotr Georgievich Lazutin Пётр Георгиевич Лазутин
Chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and one of the six executed in the Leningrad Affair
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1905–1950
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov Николай Александрович Тихонов
The conservative premier of late Brezhnevism
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1905–1997
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Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov Борис Николаевич Черноусов
The RSFSR premier who rose in the Leningrad Affair's wake and fell at the 19th Party Congress
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1908–1978
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков
The non-Politburo power who was the institutional memory of the Soviet government for 25 years
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1909–2004
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev Михаил Сергеевич Соломенцев
Brezhnev-era industrial technocrat who ran the Russian republic for 12 years
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1913–2008
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Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov Кирилл Трофимович Мазуров
Belarusian partisan leader who rose to Brezhnev's Politburo and served as USSR First Deputy Premier for thirteen years
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1914–1989
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Alexander Pavlovich Lyashko Александр Павлович Ляшко
The Donetsk-born Soviet economic manager who led Ukraine's government for 15 years through the Brezhnev era
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1915–2002
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Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov Тихон Яковлевич Киселёв
Belarus's premier for nearly 20 years who rose to First Secretary and candidate Politburo member, then died of cancer two years later
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1917–1983
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Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников
The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1926–2012
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Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков
Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1929–2024
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Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich Вячаслаў Францавіч Кебіч
Belarus's first prime minister; co-signed the Belovezh Accords and later testified the Russian delegation alone arrived with a plan
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1936–2020
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Ayaz Niyazi oghlu Mutalibov Ајаз Нијази оғлу Мүтәллибов
The last Soviet leader caught between a renewed union and independence
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1938–2022
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Andrei Serafimovich Grachev Андрей Серафимович Грачёв
An insider witness to the collapse of reform
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1941–
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Alexander Mitrofanovich Obolensky Александр Митрофанович Оболенский
The engineer who became the first person in Soviet history to run against a sitting General Secretary
Political and party leadership
1943–
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Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков
Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920
Military command · Soviet Union
?–1920