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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 16 Government and administration 39 Legislature and state representation 15 Military command 215 Security, intelligence and policing 168 Diplomacy and international organization 54 Economy, finance and planning 103 Industry and production 101 Agriculture and land policy 22 Ideology and propaganda 59 Social movements and organizing 5 Scholarship and theory 6 Education 9 Science and technology 123 Literature and arts 12 Law and justice 27

Affiliation(set)

Soviet institution line

Any Party leadership 1 Party Secretariat and cadres 5 Heads of government 22 Military and defence 204 State security agencies 164 Ideology and propaganda 40 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 118

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 985 Soviet Union state institutions 955 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 128 Communist Party of China 55 People’s Republic of China state institutions 41 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 32 Comintern 26 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 21

All 130 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistan state institutions 3 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albania state institutions 4 Party of Labour of Albania 4

Angola

Angola state institutions 7 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 9

Austria

Austria state institutions 1

Benin

Benin state institutions 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 2

Bulgaria

Bulgaria state institutions 2 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 5

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutions 1

Cambodia

Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 1 Democratic Kampuchea state institutions 2 People’s Republic of Kampuchea state institutions 1

Chile

Communist Party of Chile 1

China

Communist Party of China 55 Kuomintang 5 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 People’s Republic of China state institutions 41

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo state institutions 3 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 3

Cuba

Cuba state institutions 4 Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 5 26th of July Movement 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 11 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 15 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 3

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 9 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 5 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 7

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 21 East Germany state institutions 17

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopia state institutions 3 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 3 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 4

France

France state institutions 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 12 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 4

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 32 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 15 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 13

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 2 Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) 1

Grenada

Grenada state institutions 1 New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 19 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 21 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 7 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 9 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 4 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 1

India

Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 3

International organizations

Comintern 26 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1

Italy

Italy state institutions 1 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 5 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 3

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 3

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutions 1

Laos

Laos state institutions 2 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 2

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutions 1

Madagascar

Madagascar state institutions 1

Moldova

Moldova state institutions 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 4 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 7

Mozambique

Mozambique state institutions 2 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Poland state institutions 10 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 12 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 10 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 9 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 7 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 4

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romania state institutions 6 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 7

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 2 Russian Federation state institutions 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 8 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 128 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11 United Russia 5 Our Home – Russia 1

Somalia

Somalia state institutions 3

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 3 Workers' Party of South Korea 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 985 Soviet Union state institutions 955

Spain

Spain state institutions 1 Spanish Republic state institutions 3 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 5 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 1

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutions 1

Ukraine

Ukraine state institutions 1 Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 3 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate) state institutions 1 ↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 7

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 11 Socialist Party of America 4

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan state institutions 1

Vietnam

Vietnam state institutions 9 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 11

Yemen

Yemen state institutions 1 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 6 South Yemen state institutions 4

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 8 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 10

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 19 Socialist-bloc reform leader 7 Dissident 3 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 2 Marxism and communism 955 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 933 Russia 13 Moldova 2 Azerbaijan 1 Belarus 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Germany 1 Latvia 1 United States 1

Background

Any Russia 681 Ukraine 78 Belarus 38 Armenia 23 Poland 23 Georgia 20 Latvia 20 Azerbaijan 12 Lithuania 10 Germany 9 Estonia 6 Moldova 6 Uzbekistan 5 Finland 4 France 2 Kyrgyzstan 2 Turkey 2 Bulgaria 1 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 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 148 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 379 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 298 The last generation1985–1991 123

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 5 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Soviet Union state institutions Marxism and communism Clear all

955 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov Анатолий Иванович Грибков Secret planner of the Cuban Missile Crisis deployment and last Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2008
Boris Grigorievich Dubovsky Борис Григорьевич Дубовский The physicist who built the dosimetry for F-1's first criticality and founded the Soviet reactor radiation safety system Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2008
Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov Дмитрий Ильич Козлов Korolev's right hand who led the R-7 through design, mass production, and every successive variant Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2009
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2010
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub Иван Никитович Кожедуб Top Allied fighter ace who scored 64 victories and was never downed by an enemy Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–1991
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–1996
Yadgar Sadykovna Nasriddinova Ядгар Садыковна Насриддинова Uzbek SSR figure who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–2006
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–2011
Ivan Lavrentievich Ustinov Иван Лаврентьевич Устинов Military counterintelligence chief of the Brezhnev era Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–2020
Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Василий Иосифович Сталин Lieutenant general of aviation and founder of Soviet ice hockey, the leader's son Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1962
Vadim Stepanovich Tikunov Вадим Степанович Тикунов Shelepin-network RSFSR interior minister who led Khrushchev-era policing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1980
Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1997
Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov Виктор Георгиевич Куликов Longest-serving Warsaw Pact supreme commander, who led its forces for twelve years Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–2013
Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–2017
Pyotr Stepanovich Pleshakov Пётр Степанович Плешаков Architect of Soviet radio-electronic warfare Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1987
Georgi Nikitovich Bolshakov Георгий Никитович Большаков The GRU officer who ran the secret backchannel between Khrushchev and the Kennedys Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1989
Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1994
Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov Николай Геннадиевич Басов Nobel-winning physicist who laid the foundations of the maser and laser, then extended quantum electronics into missile defense Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2001
Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko Вадим Алексеевич Кирпиченко KGB First Chief Directorate deputy who ran Soviet foreign intelligence for twelve years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2005
Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky Олег Генрихович Ивановский The engineer who turned early Soviet spacecraft designs into tested machines Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2014
Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin Леонид Митрофанович Замятин Information architect of the Brezhnev system Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–2019
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya Зоя Анатольевна Космодемьянская The first woman Hero of the Soviet Union, the 18-year-old partisan who cried 'Stalin will come!' from the gallows Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1941
Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov Виктор Михайлович Глушков Father of Soviet cybernetics whose OGAS network envisioned real-time socialist planning decades before the internet Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1982
Nikolai Vasilyevich Sutyagin Николай Васильевич Сутягин The Soviet ace with MiG Alley’s highest score Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1986
Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev Сергей Фёдорович Ахромеев The Soviet Marshal who forged the INF Treaty and could not outlive the USSR Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1991
Alexander Ivanovich Koldunov Александр Иванович Колдунов The top Yak ace of the war who rose to command the Air Defence Forces, and fell after a teenager landed on Red Square Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1992
Pyotr Georgievich Lushev Пётр Георгиевич Лушев The last supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact forces Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1997
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov Виктор Михайлович Чебриков KGB chairman from late stagnation into perestroika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–1999
Vladimir Fyodorovich Utkin Владимир Фёдорович Уткин Father of the SS-18 'Satan' and architect of the late Cold War nuclear balance Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2000
Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2002
Lev Nikolayevich Zaikov Лев Николаевич Зайков The technocrat who rose from defense-plant apprentice to Politburo overseer of the military-industrial complex Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2002
Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev Александр Николаевич Яковлев The architect of glasnost: the ideology chief who dismantled the ideology Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2005
Boris Pavlovich Bugayev Борис Павлович Бугаев Brezhnev's personal pilot who became Chief Marshal and the head of Soviet civil aviation Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2007
Ivan Moiseevich Tretyak Иван Моисеевич Третьяк Soviet air defence chief who ordered the KAL 007 shootdown Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2007
Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaitsev Михаил Митрофанович Зайцев GSFG Commander-in-Chief and Army General who oversaw Soviet operations in Afghanistan Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2009
Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov Валентин Иванович Варенников General who received the Victory Banner and stood alone in the coup dock Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2009
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yefimov Александр Николаевич Ефимов Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Il-2 assault ace who rose to command the Soviet Air Force at its zenith Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2012
Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareev Махмут Ахметович Гареев A staff general who turned wartime experience into military theory Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2019
Alexander Yakovlevich Sukharev Александр Яковлевич Сухарев The last reform-era Procurator General of the USSR, who oversaw the legal rehabilitation of Stalin's victims during perestroika Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2021
Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Эвальд Васильевич Ильенков A Soviet European who excavated dialectical logic from Marx's Capital Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1979
Viktor Petrovich Makeyev Виктор Петрович Макеев Founder of Soviet naval strategic rocketry, the man the CIA called 'the Ural Dragon' Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1985
Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey Алексей Иванович Аджубей Khrushchev's son-in-law and the editor who turned Izvestia into the most-read Soviet newspaper of the thaw Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1993
Mikhail Fyodorovich Reshetnev Михаил Фёдорович Решетнёв The chief designer who built a Soviet satellite empire in the Siberian taiga Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–1996
Vasily Aleksandrovich Dinkov Василий Александрович Динков The gas and oil minister who made the USSR the world's largest gas producer Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2001
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny Владимир Ефимович Семичастный The KGB chairman during Khrushchev’s fall Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2001
Yuri Pavlovich Maksimov Юрий Павлович Максимов General of the Army who commanded the Strategic Rocket Forces through the Afghan war and the dissolution of the USSR Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2002
Vladimir Leonidovich Govorov Владимир Леонидович Говоров Son of a marshal who led the Chernobyl response and turned Soviet civil defence toward peacetime emergencies Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2006
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков The KGB chairman who designed the August coup Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2007
Vladimir Petrovich Pirozhkov Владимир Петрович Пирожков The KGB constant: 20 years as deputy chairman under four chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2009
Karen Nersesovich Brutents Карен Нерсесович Брутенц The International Department theorist who designed Soviet Third World policy under Brezhnev Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2017

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