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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

Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1937
Arkady Pavlovich Rozengolts Аркадий Павлович Розенгольц Bolshevik who built the Soviet Air Force and ran foreign trade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Moisei Lvovich Rukhimovich Моисей Львович Рухимович The industrial builder Lenin trusted; first People's Commissar for Defence Industry Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Pavel Yefimovich Dybenko Павел Ефимович Дыбенко The first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, whose Baltic sailors tipped the scales in October 1917 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Yan Karlovich Berzin Jānis Ян Карлович Берзин Bērziņš The Latvian Bolshevik who built Soviet military intelligence and was consumed by the purges Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 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 state institutions 1889–1939
Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1941
Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1942
Vasily Vasilievich Ulrikh Василий Васильевич Ульрих Presiding judge of the Moscow show trials, Stalin's 'judicial guillotine' Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1951
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis Лев Захарович Мехлис From Stalin's personal secretary to the Red Army's purge enforcer, nicknamed 'the Inquisitor of the Red Army' Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1953
Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1960
Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1918
Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Boris Mironovich Feldman Борис Миронович Фельдман One of the eight Tukhachevsky-trial defendants; his confession under torture started the chain reaction that consumed the Red Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Grigory Fedorovich Grinko Григорий Фёдорович Гринько From Ukrainian Borotbist to People's Commissar of Finance: the man who funded the Five-Year Plans Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1938
Lev Natanovich Kritsman Лев Натанович Крицман The agrarian Marxist who theorized War Communism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1938
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher Василий Константинович Блюхер “Order of the Red Banner No. 1”: Civil War hero and one of the first five marshals, extinguished in Lefortovo Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1938
Robert Indrikovich Eikhe Роберт Индрикович Эйхе Architect of terror in Siberia, recanted his confession under torture Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1940
Johannes Vares Johannes Vares Poet and doctor whom Zhdanov forced on Estonia as puppet prime minister in June 1940, and who led the petition to join the Soviet Union Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1946
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1946
Grigory Ivanovich Kulik Григорий Иванович Кулик Stalin's artillery chief from Tsaritsyn: Marshal who blocked the T-34, KV-1 and Katyusha Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1950
Vitaly Grigorievich Khlopin Виталий Григорьевич Хлопин The radiochemist who led the Radium Institute and laid the institutional foundations of Soviet nuclear physics Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1950
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1986
V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1918
Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1920
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1937
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1891–1938
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov Михаил Александрович Чернов The commissar who ran agriculture through the second Five-Year Plan, from grain procurement to VDNKh Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1938
Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar Влас Яковлевич Чубарь The economic administrator who led Ukraine's government for 11 years, caught between Stalin's demands and the famine Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1939
Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1940
Yefim Georgiyevich Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов Architect of the Shakhty case and boss of the North Caucasus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1940
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov Владимир Михайлович Петляков The prisoner who gave the Red Air Force its finest tactical bomber: Pe-2, born in a sharashka Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1942
Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov Сергей Иванович Вавилов The physicist-administrator who led the Academy of Sciences through the early atomic age Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1951
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Отто Юльевич Шмидт Mathematician who mastered the Arctic through science and built Glavsevmorput Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1956
Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov Александр Васильевич Горбатов The army general who survived Kolyma, took Berlin, and testified to Stalin-era repression Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1973
Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1973
Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1925
Pyotr Ionovich Baranov Пётр Ионович Баранов Principal architect of the Soviet Air Force and aviation industry Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1933
Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov Александр Григорьевич Червяков Architect of Byelorussian Soviet statehood who turned the gun on himself Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1937
Vsevolod Apollonovich Balitsky Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий The master of the Ukrainian security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1937
Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938

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