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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 4 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 5 Military command 174 Security, intelligence and policing 103 Diplomacy and international organization 38 Economy, finance and planning 88 Industry and production 82 Agriculture and land policy 14 Ideology and propaganda 47 Social movements and organizing 2 Scholarship and theory 4 Education 8 Science and technology 95 Literature and arts 9 Law and justice 21

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 Union state institutions 706 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 107 Russian Empire state institutions 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

Yugoslavia state institutions 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 13 Socialist-bloc reform leader 6 Dissident 2 Anarchists 1 Marxism and communism 681

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 692 Russia 14

Background(set)

Any Russia 706 Ukraine 83 Belarus 40 Armenia 24 Poland 23 Latvia 21 Georgia 20 Azerbaijan 12 Germany 10 Lithuania 10 Estonia 6 Moldova 6 Uzbekistan 5 Finland 4 Bulgaria 2 France 2 Kyrgyzstan 2 Turkey 2 Czechia 1 Hungary 1 Kazakhstan 1 Korea 1 Tajikistan 1 Turkmenistan 1 United States 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 2 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 109 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 264 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 240 The last generation1985–1991 91

Soviet Union state institutions Background: Russia Clear all

706 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1948
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов Stalin’s marshal, sustained by loyalty more than command Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1969
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1920
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1932
Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1938
Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov Борис Михайлович Шапошников The only officer Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, author of The Brain of the Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1945
Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1952
Boris Dmitriyevich Grekov Борис Дмитриевич Греков Founder of Soviet medieval studies; established the feudal interpretation of Kievan Rus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1953
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1955
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 state institutions 1883–1921
Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1927
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Александр Ильич Егоров The Southern Front commander who broke Denikin: the last of the first five marshals whose name was erased Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1939
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1940
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev Алексей Егорович Бадаев Official publisher of Pravda who rose from Duma deputy to nominal head of the Russian republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1951
Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk Science and technology 1883–1960
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1960
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1973
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1927
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1928
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1937
Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1941
Grigory Alexandrovich Feldman Григорий Александрович Фельдман The Gosplan mathematical economist who first formalized the capital-goods-led growth model Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1958
Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1965
Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1975
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 state institutions 1885–1925
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1938
Aron Lvovich Sheinman Арон Львович Шейнман Architect of the chervonets who tamed NEP inflation, then broke with Stalin as the first high-ranking Soviet financial defector Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1944
Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–?
Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1938
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1919
Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев A Red Army commander shaped by the air war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1934
Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1936
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Pyotr Kirillovich Koganovich Пётр Кириллович Коганович The Siberian food chief whose name is one letter away from a Politburo member Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov Николай Иванович Вавилов The geneticist who built the world's largest seed bank and stood against Lysenko Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1943
Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1927
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1935
Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский The Red commander of the Urals Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1936
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937

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