People of the Revolution and the USSR
Affiliation(set)
Soviet institution line
Any
Party leadership 1
Party Secretariat and cadres 5
Heads of government 22
Military and defence 206
State security agencies 164
Ideology and propaganda 41
Culture and literary control 21
Formal heads of state 3
Foreign affairs 50
Nationalities and federal management 6
Central planning agencies 38
Economic management 58
Heavy industry and military industry 98
Agriculture 17
Science, nuclear and space development 119
Most people
Any
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1061
Soviet Unionstate 992
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 165
Hungarystate 74
United States state institutionsstate 72
Russian Empirestate 59
Communist Party of China 57
Germany state institutionsstate 52
All 215 affiliations
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Chile
China
Congo - Brazzaville
Cuba
Czechia
Czechoslovakia
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
DR Congo
East Germany
Estonia
Ethiopia
Finland
France
France state institutionsstate 39
French revolutionary movement 1
French First Republic state institutionsstate 19
Consulate and First Empire state institutionsstate 5
French monarchystate 5
French Communist Party (PCF) 17
French Workers' Party (POF) 3
General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 2
Girondins 3
Jacobin Club 1
The Mountain (Montagnards) 4
Cordeliers Club 4
Paris Commune (1789–1795) 3
Feuillants 4
French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 14
Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) 3
Army of Condé 1
Action Française 1
Enragés 2
Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2
Jacobin Club 12
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guinea-Bissau
Hungary
Hungarystate 74
Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 26
Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 12
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 14
Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 9
Unity Party (Hungary) 6
Party of National Unity / Party of Hungarian Life (NEP/MÉP) 7
Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 5
India
Indonesia
International organizations
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lithuania
Madagascar
Moldova
Mongolia
Mozambique
Netherlands
Poland
Polandstate 23
Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 20
Solidarity (Solidarność) 7
Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2
Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3
Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 11
Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 12
Polish People's Party (PSL) 3
Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 8
Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1
Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 7
Freedom Union (Poland) 5
Democratic Union (Poland) 4
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Russian Empirestate 59
Russian White movement 20
Russian Federation state institutionsstate 9
Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1
Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 42
Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 18
Mensheviks (RSDLP) 12
Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 4
Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 11
Narodnaya Volya 7
Russian Provisional Governmentstate 5
Russian Orthodox Church 5
General Jewish Labour Bund 5
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 165
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11
United Russia 7
Our Home – Russia 3
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Soviet Union
Spain
Switzerland
Tanzania
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Position
Citizenship
Background
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Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov Юрий Иванович Дроздов
Legendary Soviet spymaster who headed KGB illegal intelligence for 12 years
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1925–2017
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Filip Denisovich Bobkov Филипп Денисович Бобков
Architect of KGB ideological counterintelligence, 45-year Chekist under 12 chiefs
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1925–2019
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Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov Евгений Максимович Примаков
The Arabist premier who turned his plane around over the Atlantic
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1929–2015
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Viktor Fyodorovich Grushko Виктор Фёдорович Грушко
The KGB operational deputy who bridged foreign intelligence and counterintelligence
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1930–2001
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Yuri Sergeyevich Plekhanov Юрий Сергеевич Плеханов
From KGB eavesdropping chief to head of leadership security, the man who pulled the coup's trigger
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1930–2002
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Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov Александр Владимирович Власов
Creator of OMON and the last communist prime minister of Russia, defeated by Yeltsin
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1932–2002
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Oleg Danilovich Kalugin Олег Данилович Калугин
Youngest KGB general turned its highest-ranking defector-critic
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1934–
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Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin Леонид Владимирович Шебаршин
Last chief of Soviet foreign intelligence
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1935–2012
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Boris Karlovich Pugo Борис Карлович Пуго
From Latvian KGB chief to USSR interior minister, a guardian of order shattered in the coup he backed
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1937–1991
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Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin Вадим Викторович Бакатин
The last KGB chairman, appointed to dismantle it
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1937–2022
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko Николай Михайлович Голушко
The last chairman of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, who went on to serve the security services of three states: USSR, Ukraine, and Russia
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1937–2025
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Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky Олег Антонович Гордиевский
The highest-ranking KGB officer to defect, and the key source on the 1983 war scare
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1938–2025
-
Genrikh Lyushkov Генрих Люшков
Far East NKVD chief, the highest-ranking defector
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1900/1902–1945
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Mikhail Kozlovsky Михаил Козловский
KGB security officer who commanded border troops under Andropov
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
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