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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 Unionstate 955 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 128 Communist Party of China 55 People’s Republic of Chinastate 41 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 32 Comintern 26 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 21

All 130 affiliations

Afghanistan

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

Albania

Albaniastate 4 Party of Labour of Albania 4

Angola

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

Austria

Austria state institutionsstate 1

Benin

Beninstate 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 2

Bulgaria

Bulgariastate 2 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 5

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutionsstate 1

Cambodia

Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 1 Democratic Kampucheastate 2 People’s Republic of Kampucheastate 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 Chinastate 41

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congostate 3 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 3

Cuba

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

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 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 Koreastate 7

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 21 East Germanystate 17

Estonia

Estonia state institutionsstate 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 3 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

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

France

France state institutionsstate 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 institutionsstate 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

Grenadastate 1 New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 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 institutionsstate 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 institutionsstate 1

Laos

Laosstate 2 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 2

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 1

Moldova

Moldova state institutionsstate 1

Mongolia

Mongoliastate 4 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 7

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 2 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Polandstate 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

Romaniastate 6 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 7

Russia

Russian Empirestate 2 Russian Federation state institutionsstate 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

Somaliastate 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 Unionstate 955

Spain

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

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutionsstate 1

Ukraine

Ukraine state institutionsstate 1 Ukrainian People's Republicstate 3 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 1 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 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 institutionsstate 1

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 9 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 11

Yemen

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

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 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) Marxism and communism Clear all

955 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов The last Marshal of the Soviet Union and defence minister of the August coup Military command · Soviet Union 1924–2020
Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh Владимир Иванович Долгих The CC secretary who ran Soviet heavy industry and energy for 16 years under Brezhnev Industry and production · Soviet Union 1924–2020
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev Павел Иванович Беляев The fighter pilot who commanded the first spacewalk Science and technology · Soviet Union 1925–1970
Vladlen Mikhailovich Mikhailov Владлен Михайлович Михайлов The last chief of Soviet GRU who led military intelligence through the USSR's dissolution Military command · Soviet Union 1925–2004
Georgy Markovich Korniyenko Георгий Маркович Корниенко Gromyko's point man on America who ran arms-control talks, opposed the Afghan invasion, and demanded truth over KAL 007 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1925–2006
Gury Ivanovich Marchuk Гурий Иванович Марчук Last President of the USSR Academy of Sciences and pioneer of computational mathematics in Siberia Science and technology · Soviet Union 1925–2013
Vladislav Grigoryevich Kolesnikov Владислав Григорьевич Колесников The last Soviet Minister of Electronics, who led microelectronics through perestroika's final years Industry and production · Soviet Union 1925–2015
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
Boris Ivanovich Aristov Борис Иванович Аристов The last Minister of Foreign Trade, who inherited a 27-year incumbent's post only to see the ministry itself abolished on his watch Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1925–2018
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
Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov Василий Александрович Архипов Soviet submarine officer who refused to launch a nuclear torpedo and prevented nuclear war Military command · Soviet Union 1926–1998
Vasily Aleksandrovich Shamshin Василий Александрович Шамшин Engineer-turned-minister who led the modernization of Soviet communications infrastructure Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1926–2009
Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away Government and administration · Soviet Union 1926–2012
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1926–2017
Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1926–2018
Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov Яфрэм Евсеевич Сакалоў A Belarusian party leader who combined agricultural development with late-Soviet reform Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1926–2022
Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov The last chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1926–2023
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov Владимир Михайлович Комаров Voskhod 1 commander and the first human to perish in a spaceflight Science and technology · Soviet Union 1927–1967
Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1927–2006
Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев The last chief of the Soviet railways Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1927–2007
Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев Late Soviet foreign-economic official Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1927–2010
Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov Михаил Иванович Щадов The last Soviet coal minister, who drove open-pit mining and led the miners into the Chernobyl tunnel Industry and production · Soviet Union 1927–2011
Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1927–2013
Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1927–2015
Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov Дмитрий Антонович Волкогонов From Soviet military propagandist to the historian who opened the secret archives Military command · Soviet Union 1928–1995
Viktor Pavlovich Karpov Виктор Павлович Карпов The face of Soviet arms control diplomacy across SALT, INF, and START Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1928–1997
Nikolai Alexeyevich Maltsev Николай Алексеевич Мальцев The minister who led Soviet oil to its peak through the West Siberian fields Industry and production · Soviet Union 1928–2001
Lev Petrovich Feoktistov Лев Петрович Феоктистов From nuclear-weapon designer to critic of the arms race Science and technology · Soviet Union 1928–2002
Dzhermen Mikhailovich Gvishiani Джермен Михайлович Гвишиани Philosopher who bridged Soviet planning science and Western systems analysis Science and technology · Soviet Union 1928–2003
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev Владимир Михайлович Каменцев The technocrat who brought Soviet fisheries to global leadership Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1928–2003
Igor Sergeyevich Belousov Игорь Сергеевич Белоусов The shipbuilding minister who built the Soviet Navy's strategic parity Industry and production · Soviet Union 1928–2005
Alexei Dmitrievich Lizichev Алексей Дмитриевич Лизичев The last GlavPUR chief who stood to defend the military political organs through perestroika Military command · Soviet Union 1928–2006
Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov Чингиз Торекулович Айтматов Kyrgyz writer and diplomat who carved a Central Asian voice into world literature Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1928–2008
Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1928–2008
German Arsenyevich Goncharov Герман Арсеньевич Гончаров Physicist from Sakharov's group who became the lead declassifier and historian of the Soviet H-bomb project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1928–2009
Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze ედუარდ შევარდნაძე The Soviet foreign minister who ended the Cold War, then led Georgia Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1928–2014
Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц Agriculture minister of late stagnation Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1928–2019
Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin Владимир Николаевич Чернавин The last C-in-C of the Soviet Navy, the nuclear submariner who first patrolled under the Arctic ice Military command · Soviet Union 1928–2023
Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1929–1991
Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1929–1993
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev Андриян Григорьевич Николаев Soviet cosmonaut who flew humanity's first multi-day spaceflight aboard Vostok 3 Science and technology · Soviet Union 1929–2004
Apollon Sergeyevich Systsov Аполлон Сергеевич Сысцов Last Soviet Minister of Aviation Industry: from the Buran shuttle to the privatisation of a military-industrial empire Industry and production · Soviet Union 1929–2005
Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1929–2007
Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1929–2008
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
Anatoly Ivanovich Mayorets Анатолий Иванович Майорец The last Soviet energy minister sent into the Chernobyl disaster zone Industry and production · Soviet Union 1929–2016
Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov Евгений Иванович Чазов The father of Soviet cardiology who ran Kremlin medicine for 20 years Science and technology · Soviet Union 1929–2021
Stepan Alekseyevich Shalaev Степан Алексеевич Шалаев The last leader of the Soviet trade-union system Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1929–2022
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kozlovsky Евгений Александрович Козловский Longest-serving geology minister who presided over the 'golden age' of Soviet mineral exploration Industry and production · Soviet Union 1929–2022
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis Government and administration · Soviet Union 1929–2024

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