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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 19 Government and administration 44 Legislature and state representation 15 Military command 230 Security, intelligence and policing 170 Diplomacy and international organization 54 Economy, finance and planning 108 Industry and production 101 Agriculture and land policy 23 Ideology and propaganda 60 Social movements and organizing 5 Scholarship and theory 9 Education 10 Science and technology 125 Literature and arts 12 Law and justice 28

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any State security agencies 164

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 170 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Hungarystate 10 Nazi party and regime 9 United States state institutionsstate 6 Russian Empirestate 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6 East Germanystate 6

All 37 affiliations

Albania

Albaniastate 1

China

Communist Party of China 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 3

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 3 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germanystate 6

France

France state institutionsstate 4 French First Republic state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 3 Nazi party and regime 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Greece state institutionsstate 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 2 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Soviet Unionstate 170

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1

United States

United States state institutionsstate 6 Republican Party (United States) 3

Yugoslavia

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

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Marxism and communism 168

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 168 East Germany 1 Russia 1

Background

Any Russia 103 Ukraine 19 Georgia 11 Belarus 10 Poland 9 Latvia 5 Lithuania 3 Armenia 2 Germany 2 Estonia 1 France 1 Korea 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 24 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 110 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 26 The last generation1985–1991 9

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Security, intelligence and policing Soviet Union (state) Clear all

170 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Timofei Amvrosievich Strokach Тимофей Амвросиевич Строкач The Ukrainian MVD chief whose warning to Khrushchev, after Beria threatened to make him 'camp dust,' triggered Beria's arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1903–1963
Rudolf Herrnstadt Rudolf Herrnstadt Editor of Neues Deutschland who helped draft the 1953 New Course, moved against Ulbricht and was purged as a “faction” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1903–1966
Sardion Nikolayevich Nadaraya Сардион Николаевич Надарая Beria's bodyguard chief, formerly of the internal prison Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1903–1982
Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov Богдан Захарович Кобулов Beria's closest deputy, executor of Katyn and the mass deportations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1953
Sergei Romanovich Savchenko Сергей Романович Савченко The state security chief who dismantled the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by force, then ran Soviet foreign intelligence in late Stalinism Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1966
Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev Семён Денисович Игнатьев The last MGB minister of Stalin’s final years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1983
Vasily Stepanovich Ryasnoy Василий Степанович Рясной NKVD chief who directed the suppression of Ukraine's nationalist insurgency Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1995
Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1940
Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin Виктор Григорьевич Наседкин The camp empire's administrator who ran the GULAG through the Great Patriotic War Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1950
Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский Head of the unit for especially important cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1953
Anatoly Alexandrovich Esaulov Анатолий Александрович Эсаулов The interrogator of Yezhov: the hand that kept the record as the machine devoured its own master Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1954
Konstantin Sergeyevich Savitsky Константин Сергеевич Савицкий Kobulov's personal secretary, condemned in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1955
Nikolai Maksimovich Rukhadze Николай Максимович Рухадзе He drove the Mingrelian affair and then fell himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1955
Boris Rodos Борис Вениаминович Родос The Great Purge's chief interrogator: NKVD Investigation Deputy Chief who broke Politburo members, generals, and writers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1956
Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin Александр Семёнович Панюшкин Soviet foreign intelligence chief who directed operations under ambassadorial cover in China and the United States Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1974
Ivan Alexandrovich Serov Иван Александрович Серов The first chairman of the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1990
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1993
Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан Released in 1938, shot in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Nikolai Pavlovich Dudorov Николай Павлович Дудоров Khrushchev's civilian interior minister who tried and failed to dismantle the informant system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1977
Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartsman Лев Леонидович (Аронович) Шварцман MGB's most brutal interrogator, killer of Blyukher, Babel, and Meyerhold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1955
Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukhodolsky Владимир Николаевич Суходольский NKVD major-general who led Tula's wartime defence and fell from grace Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1966
Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin Павел Михайлович Фитин The man who rebuilt foreign intelligence from the wreckage of the Yezhovshchina and stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1971
Sergey Nikiforovich Kruglov Сергей Никифорович Круглов The last NKVD People's Commissar, the longest-serving MVD minister, killed by a train Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1977
Konstantin Fyodorovich Lunev Константин Фёдорович Лунёв A party cadre elevated into the security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1980
Alexander Ivanovich Langfang Александр Иванович Лангфанг An interrogator convicted of falsifying cases and torturing prisoners Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1990
Georgy Karpovich Tsinev Георгий Карпович Цинёв Brezhnev's other pair of eyes inside the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1996
Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов Stalin’s spymaster who eliminated Trotsky, then spent fifteen years in Stalin’s prisons Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1996
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Виктор Семёнович Абакумов Stalin's security chief who commanded SMERSH and ruled the MGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1908–1954
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Sakharovsky Александр Михайлович Сахаровский State-security officer who led Soviet foreign intelligence for 15 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1909–1983
Pyotr Ivanovich Ivashutin Пётр Иванович Ивашутин The KGB man who led the GRU for 24 years: Soviet military intelligence's longest-serving chief Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1909–2002
Pavel Yakovlevich Meshik Павел Яковлевич Мешик Beria's inner circle and an organiser of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1910–1953
Nikolai Anisimovich Shchelokov Николай Анисимович Щёлоков Brezhnev's 16-year police chief who rebuilt the MVD into a modern force Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1910–1984
Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov Николай Иванович Кузнецов Soviet spy who posed as a German officer in Nazi-occupied Ukraine and personally eliminated high-ranking officials Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1911–1944
Vasily Mikhailovich Vinevitin Василий Михайлович Виневитин The NKVD sniper lieutenant who shot the Japanese gendarme on Frinovsky's order Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1938
Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин Engineer of the Doctors' Plot, NKVD bookkeeper turned deputy minister Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1954
Nikita Arkadyevich Krimyan Никита Аркадьевич Кримян The investigator who became Armenia's security minister at thirty-one Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1913–1955
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov Юрий Владимирович Андропов The paradox: a reformer’s patron inside the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1914–1984
Yevgeny Petrovich Pitovranov Евгений Петрович Питовранов A survivor who transformed from Stalin's counter-intelligence chief to Brezhnev's trade diplomat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1915–1999
Vladimir Ivanovich Komarov Владимир Иванович Комаров Abakumov's deputy interrogator who beat prisoners and fabricated protocols in the Leningrad Affair Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1916–1954
Semyon Kuzmich Tsvigun Семён Кузьмич Цвигун Brezhnev's watcher planted beside Andropov Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1917–1982
Vadim Aleksandrovich Matrosov Вадим Александрович Матросов The military axis of the KGB: 17 years commanding the border army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1917–1999
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
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1994
Ivan Kirillovich Yakovlev Иван Кириллович Яковлев The MVD general who turned the Internal Troops into a mobile strike force and sealed Chernobyl Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2002
Grigory Fyodorovich Grigorenko Григорий Фёдорович Григоренко Architect of Soviet counterintelligence for 40 years, from SMERSH radio games to chief of the KGB Second Chief Directorate Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2007
Vitaly Vasilyevich Fedorchuk Виталий Васильевич Федорчук The brief KGB chairman after Andropov Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–2008
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky Олег Владимирович Пеньковский The GRU colonel who fed the West over 5,000 classified documents on Soviet missile weakness, exposing Khrushchev's strategic bluff Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1919–1963
Ivan Lavrentievich Ustinov Иван Лаврентьевич Устинов Military counterintelligence chief of the Brezhnev era Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1920–2020
Vadim Stepanovich Tikunov Вадим Степанович Тикунов Shelepin-network RSFSR interior minister who led Khrushchev-era policing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1921–1980

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