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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Security, intelligence and policing 100

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party Secretariat and cadres 2 Heads of government 15 Military and defence 161 State security agencies 100 Ideology and propaganda 34 Culture and literary control 18 Formal heads of state 1 Foreign affairs 35 Central planning agencies 30 Economic management 49 Heavy industry and military industry 80 Agriculture 12 Science, nuclear and space development 92

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 723 Soviet Unionstate 706 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 107 Russian Empirestate 49 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 29 Russian White movement 17 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 11 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 10

All 41 affiliations

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Nazi party and regime 2 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 1

Position

Any Marxism and communism 100

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 99 Russia 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 100 Ukraine 19 Georgia 11 Belarus 10 Poland 9 Latvia 5 Lithuania 3 Armenia 2 Estonia 1 France 1 Germany 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 10 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 62 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 21 The last generation1985–1991 7

Soviet Union (state) State security agencies Background: Russia Clear all

100 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
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
Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1883–1938
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1883–1940
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1883–1960
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1884–1926
Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1885–1925
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1939
Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1939
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1937
Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1938
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda Генрих Григорьевич Ягода The NKVD chief who expanded the Gulag and became a purge defendant Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1938
Yefim Georgiyevich Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов Architect of the Shakhty case and boss of the North Caucasus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1940
Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1938
Karl Viktorovich Pauker Карл Викторович Паукер The operations chief who guarded Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1893–1937
Sergei Naumovich Mironov Сергей Наумович Миронов The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who opened the mass operations in West Siberia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1940
Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин The NKVD rezident who ran a Gestapo mole and coordinated Soviet atomic espionage in America Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1972
Georgy Yevgenyevich Prokofiev Георгий Евгеньевич Прокофьев The deputy commissar who manufactured the wrecking cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1937
Pavel Petrovich Bulanov Павел Петрович Буланов Yagoda's secretary who staged the Moscow trials and became a defendant himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Izrail Yakovlevich Dagin Израиль Яковлевич Дагин From North Caucasus NKVD chief to government protection head, an executor of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
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
Zinovy Markovich Ushakov Зиновий Маркович Ушаков The interrogator who beat a confession out of Tukhachevsky, and spoke of beating only once it was his turn Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1940
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов The NKGB chief named first in the Katyn order, who wrote plays under a pseudonym Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1953
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin Василий Михайлович Блохин The executioner who served twenty-seven years under three chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1895–1955
Georgy Ivanovich Blagonravov Георгий Иванович Благонравов Bolshevik commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Semyon Borisovich Zhukovsky Семён Борисович Жуковский The trade official who became a deputy commissar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1940
Vasily Fyodorovich Dementiev Василий Фёдорович Дементьев A 'North Caucasian' Chekist moved from Chechnya to Primorye Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1940
Vasily Vasilyevich Chernyshev Василий Васильевич Чернышёв The only Yezhov deputy to survive, who ran the GULAG as Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1952
Georgy Andreyevich Molchanov Георгий Андреевич Молчанов Yagoda's chief of the Secret Political Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kursky Владимир Михайлович Курский The 'North Caucasian' deputy commissar who shot himself at the peak of his career Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1937
Nikolai Kuzmich Kruchinkin Николай Кузьмич Кручинкин Divisional commander who headed the NKVD border and internal troops and was shot Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1938
Aleksey Alekseyevich Nasedkin Алексей Алексеевич Наседкин Smolensk NKVD chief who fabricated the 'Latvian National Centre' case and launched the Latvian operation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1940
Sergei Mikhailovich Shpigelglas Сергей Михайлович Шпигельглас Architect of NKVD foreign operations during the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1897–1940
Abram Aronovich Slutsky Абрам Аронович Слуцкий The last of Yagoda's department heads, and chief of foreign intelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Yakov Abramovich Deych Яков Абрамович Дейч Yezhov's head of secretariat who went on to sit on the Rostov troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1938
Matvei Davydovich Berman Матвей Давыдович Берман The longest-serving chief who built up the Gulag Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1939
Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev Иван Александрович Мальцев A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky Михаил Петрович Фриновский Yezhov’s iron deputy Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Vasily Abramovich Karutsky Василий Абрамович Каруцкий NKVD chief who sat on a mass-operation troika and killed himself before his arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1938
Ivan Yakovlevich Lavrushin Иван Яковлевич Лаврушин NKVD chief who chaired the Gorky oblast troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1940
Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1954
Pyotr Vasilyevich Fedotov Пётр Васильевич Федотов 38-year Chekist who commanded both counterintelligence and foreign intelligence from Cheka to KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1963
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov Сергей Иванович Огольцов An operative who spanned every iteration of Soviet state security across 35 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1976
Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1939
Dmitry Matveyevich Dmitriev Дмитрий Матвеевич Дмитриев The Sverdlovsk NKVD chief whose testimony first unspooled the 'NKVD conspiracy' Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1939
Nikolai Nikolayevich Selivanovsky Николай Николаевич Селивановский The counterintelligence officer who bypassed the chain of command and telegraphed Stalin to replace Stalingrad's commander Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1997
Semyon Grigoryevich Gendin Семён Григорьевич Гендин Cheka-bred intelligence officer who led the GRU during the Great Purge and saved Sorge's Tokyo station Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1939
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky Александр Иванович Успенский The Ukrainian NKVD chief who faked his suicide and ran Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1940

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