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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen Александр Иванович Герцен Founder of Russian peasant socialism, publisher of The Bell Scholarship and theory 1812–1870
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev Николай Платонович Огарёв Russian utopian socialist theorist who co-edited Kolokol with Herzen Scholarship and theory 1813–1877
Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky Николай Яковлевич Данилевский Pan-Slavist philosopher who theorized cultural-historical types to argue for Russia's civilizational distinctiveness Scholarship and theory 1822–1885
Pyotr Lavrovich Lavrov Пётр Лаврович Лавров Foundational theorist of Narodnik philosophy whose Historical Letters declared the intelligentsia's 'debt to the people' Scholarship and theory 1823–1900
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский The revolutionary democrat whose What Is to Be Done? remade Lenin and shaped a generation of revolutionaries Scholarship and theory 1828–1889
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov Николай Фёдорович Фёдоров The founder of Russian cosmism who made the resurrection of the dead into a scientific common task of humanity Scholarship and theory 1829–1903
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov Николай Александрович Добролюбов The literary critic who died at 25 but became the teacher of an entire generation of Russian revolutionaries Scholarship and theory 1836–1861
Nikolai Konstantinovich Mikhailovsky Николай Константинович Михайловский The narodnik intelligentsia's 'ruler of thoughts,' founder of the subjective method in sociology and the theory of heroes and the crowd Scholarship and theory 1842–1904
Pyotr Nikitich Tkachev Пётр Никитич Ткачёв The Russian Jacobin Narodnik who first theorized a conspiratorial vanguard dictatorship, precursor to Leninist party doctrine Scholarship and theory 1844–1886
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky Николай Егорович Жуковский The 'Father of Russian Aviation' who gave aerodynamics its mathematical foundations, built Russia's first wind tunnel, and founded TsAGI Scholarship and theory 1847–1921
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Георгий Валентинович Плеханов The father of Russian Marxism: against his own pupils’ revolution Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1856–1918
Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev Владимир Львович Бурцев 'Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution' who serially exposed Tsarist secret police agents provocateurs Scholarship and theory 1862–1942
Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский From Legal Marxism to ethical socialism: the economist who pioneered business cycle theory Scholarship and theory · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1865–1919
Alexander Lvovich Parvus Александр Львович Парвус Co-author of permanent revolution who arranged Lenin's sealed train: the 'merchant of revolution' Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1867–1924
Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova Екатерина Дмитриевна Кускова A publicist who moved between reformist socialism and anti-party politics Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1869–1958
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov Сергей Николаевич Булгаков The Marxist economist who became a priest and built the theological system of Sophia Scholarship and theory 1871–1944
Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich Сергей Николаевич Прокопович An economist who analysed the tension between markets and state control Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1871–1955
Sadri Maksudi Садри Максуди Tatar lawyer and Duma deputy who headed the national administration of Idel-Ural Political and party leadership 1878–1957
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin Иван Александрович Ильин Hegelian legal philosopher who deemed October a 'national catastrophe' and became a White émigré ideologue Law and justice 1883–1954
Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1970
Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev Дмитрий Сергеевич Лихачёв Gulag survivor, world authority on Old Russian literature, moral conscience of late Soviet society Scholarship and theory 1906–1999
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kurnosov Владимир Александрович Курносов Author and technical director of the 'Shelter' that encased Chernobyl's ruined Reactor 4 Scholarship and theory 1926–1998
Alexandr Alexandrovich Fursenko Александр Александрович Фурсенко The historian who first reconstructed the Cuban Missile Crisis from Soviet archives Scholarship and theory 1927–2008
Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin Евгений Григорьевич Ясин A liberal economist who helped design the transition from a planned to a market economy Scholarship and theory 1934–2023
Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky Эдвард Станиславович Радзинский A popular historian who reconstructed Russia’s tragedies through archives and drama Scholarship and theory 1936–
Leonid Yanovich Gibianskii Леонид Янович Гибианский The historian whose archival discoveries rewrote the study of the Tito-Stalin split Scholarship and theory 1936–
Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov Юрий Николаевич Жуков A historian who reopened the question of responsibility in the Stalin era Scholarship and theory 1938–2023
Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov Валерий Александрович Тишков An ethnologist who challenged the nation as a fixed essence Scholarship and theory 1941–
Yuri Markovich Goland Юрий Маркович Голанд Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate Scholarship and theory 1943–
Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev Евгений Михайлович Андреев A mathematical demographer who made mortality and life expectancy legible Scholarship and theory 1944–
Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznechevsky Владимир Дмитриевич Кузнечевский A historian who traces the Russian question through Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1944–
Aleksandr Antonovich Lyakhovsky Александр Антонович Ляховский Russian general-major and insider historian of the Afghan war Scholarship and theory 1946–2009
Rustem Makhmutovich Nureyev Рустем Махмутович Нуреев The institutional economist who crystallized the 50-year debate over the Kosygin reform in a single book title Scholarship and theory 1950–2023
Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko Геннадий Васильевич Костырченко The archival historian of Stalin's state antisemitism who argued the 1953 deportation was a myth Scholarship and theory 1954–
Vladislav Martinovich Zubok Владислав Мартинович Зубок The Cold War historian who read the Soviet collapse as 'a perfect storm and a hapless captain': a man-made disaster Scholarship and theory 1958–
Nikolai Sergeyevich Simonov Николай Сергеевич Симонов The VPK's chronicler, the historian who dissected the Soviet military-industrial complex Scholarship and theory 1959–
Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк An archival historian of Stalin's political power Scholarship and theory 1959–
Sergei Viktorovich Iarov Сергей Викторович Яров A historian who widened the blockade story from heroism to everyday ethics Scholarship and theory 1959–2015
Leonid Anatolyevich Naumov Леонид Анатольевич Наумов The Moscow history teacher who read the Great Terror through its regional statistics Scholarship and theory 1961–
Yuri Mikhailovich Kilin Юрий Михайлович Килин A historian who recalculated the Winter War casualty record Scholarship and theory 1961–
Kirill Anatolyevich Boldovsky Кирилл Анатольевич Болдовский A historian tracing what the Leningrad Affair left unresolved Scholarship and theory 1963–
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Pyzhikov Александр Владимирович Пыжиков A historian of the 1950s-60s USSR and the Russian church schism Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1965–2019
Aleksandr Vladlenovich Shubin Александр Владленович Шубин A historian who reads the Soviet collapse as elite power struggle Scholarship and theory 1965–
Andrei Valerevich Sushkov Андрей Валерьевич Сушков Historian who advanced an alternative theory that corruption among Leningrad leaders provoked the late-Stalinist purge Scholarship and theory 1975–
Andrei Mikhailovich Markevich Андрей Михайлович Маркевич A quantitative reinterpreter of Russian economic history Scholarship and theory 1977–
Alexei Vasilyevich Safronov Алексей Васильевич Сафронов A historian of the Soviet economy's reform possibilities and limits Scholarship and theory 1987–
Nikita Yuryevich Pivovarov Никита Юрьевич Пивоваров A historian of the institutional limits of Soviet industrial reform Scholarship and theory ?–