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People

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 30 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 1 Monarchs and royalty 3 Military command 34 Security, intelligence and policing 8 Diplomacy and international organization 2 Economy, finance and planning 1 Industry and production 3 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 4 Social movements and organizing 29 Scholarship and theory 44 Science and technology 4 Literature and arts 13 Religion 3 Law and justice 8

Affiliation

Most people

Any Russian Empire state institutions 44 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 20 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 17 Russian White movement 16 Soviet Union state institutions 14 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 6 Narodnaya Volya 5

All 22 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 44 Russian White movement 16 Russian Federation state institutions 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 17 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 3 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 6 Narodnaya Volya 5 Russian Provisional Government state institutions 4 Russian Orthodox Church 3 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 20 Soviet Union state institutions 14

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 58 Counter-revolutionary forces 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Dissident 1 Anarchists 5 Non-Bolshevik socialists 20 Narodniks 13 Russian revolutionary democrats 6 Marxism and communism 23 Liberalism and republicanism 2 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Nationalism 2

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 951 Russia 177 United States 7 France 1 Germany 1 United Kingdom 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 177 Ukraine 7 Armenia 3 Georgia 3 Germany 3 Kazakhstan 2 Poland 2 Korea 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 114 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 9 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 3 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 5 The last generation1985–1991 12

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 5 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 3 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 25

Citizenship: Russia Background: Russia Clear all

177 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Zinovy Yakovlevich Litvin-Sedoy Зиновий Яковлевич Литвин-Седой Organizer of Presnya’s workers’ fighting squads Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1879–1947
Grigory Alekseyevich Alexinsky Григорий Алексеевич Алексинский A polemicist who turned from revolutionary internationalism to wartime patriotism Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1879–1967
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok Александр Александрович Блок Russia's foremost Symbolist poet who embraced the October Revolution Literature and arts 1880–1921
Mikhail Isaakovich Liber Михаил Исаакович Либер A Menshevik who defended the revolution against its Bolshevik direction Political and party leadership · General Jewish Labour Bund 1880–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov Владимир Михайлович Зензинов A Socialist Revolutionary who defended democratic socialism through exile and testimony Literature and arts · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1880–1953
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky Александр Фёдорович Керенский The orator ground away between revolution and counter-revolution Government and administration · Russian Empire state institutions 1881–1970
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin Владимир Владимирович Мазурин Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1882–1906
Abram Rafailovich Gots Абрам Рафаилович Гоц SR Combat Organization veteran who chaired the first-convocation VTsIK in 1917 Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1882–1940
Nikolai Pavlovich Shmit Николай Павлович Шмит The young furniture-factory heir whose plant became the heart of the Presnya uprising Industry and production · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1883–1907
Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel Владимир Оскарович Каппель The White movement's greatest 'soldier-general': conqueror of Kazan who vanished into the ice Military command · Russian White movement 1883–1920
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
Alexei N. Nikolaevich Tolstoy Алексей Николаевич Толстой The Red Count: from émigré to pillar of Stalinist letters Literature and arts 1883–1945
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
Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyaev Виктор Николаевич Пепеляев The Kadet politician who engineered Kolchak's dictatorship and stood with him to the end Government and administration · Russian White movement 1885–1920
Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov Яков Александрович Слащёв White general who held the Perekop gateway Military command · Russian White movement 1885–1929
Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1885–1938
Maxim Maximilianovich Filonenko Максимилиан Максимилианович Филоненко The Socialist Revolutionary official who pressed the revolutionary government toward coercive order Law and justice · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1885–1960
Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky Владимир Савельевич Войтинский A social democrat who changed course between revolution and economics Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1960
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov Николай Степанович Гумилёв Silver Age poet who founded Acmeism and fell to the Cheka's guns Literature and arts 1886–1921
Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг The White Army warlord who liberated Mongolia and dreamed of reviving the empire of Genghis Khan Military command · Russian White movement 1886–1921
Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1889–1922
Ivan Pavlovich Kalmykov Иван Павлович Калмыков Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks who took Khabarovsk in 1918 and became notorious for shootings without trial and plunder Military command · Russian White movement 1890–1920
Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov Григорий Михайлович Семёнов The White ataman who ruled Transbaikal under Japanese protection and defied Kolchak Military command · Russian White movement 1890–1946
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
Arkadi Maslow Аркадий Маслов The pianist-turned-revolutionary who drove the KPD's ultra-left turn, and became the anti-Stalinist left's perpetual dissident Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1891–1941
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov Николай Николаевич Поликарпов The 'King of Fighters' who dominated Soviet fighter aviation for a decade Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1944
Timofey Ivanovich Kirpichnikov Тимофей Иванович Кирпичников A soldier leader who defied imperial orders Military command · Russian Empire state institutions 1892–1917/1918
Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin Николай Владимирович Скоблин A White general turned clandestine Soviet collaborator Security, intelligence and policing 1893–1937/1938?
Anatoly Grigorievich Zheleznyakov Анатолий Григорьевич Железняков The anarchist sailor who dissolved the Constituent Assembly with 'The guard is tired', an icon of the revolution who fell in battle at 24 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1919
Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1896–1917
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
Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin Виктор Васильевич Гришин The face of the Brezhnev era who ran Moscow for eighteen years and died while re-applying for his pension Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–1992
Vladimir Ivanovich Terebilov Владимир Иванович Теребилов Jurist who revived the abolished Justice Ministry and directed the codification of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1916–2004
Vasily Pavlovich Mishin Василий Павлович Мишин Korolev's successor who delivered Soyuz and Salyut, and bore the N-1 lunar failure Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2001
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 state institutions 1925–2013
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
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 state institutions 1929–2007
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2024
Nikolai Pavlovich Laverov Николай Павлович Лавёров The last chairman of Soviet state science policy and a uranium geologist Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1930–2016
Alexei Vladimirovich Yablokov Алексей Владимирович Яблоков An ecologist who tracked Chernobyl’s long-term human costs Science and technology 1933–2017
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Евгений Александрович Евтушенко A poet in Russia is more than a poet: the stadium-filling voice of the Thaw and its contradictions Literature and arts 1933–2017
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–
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анатолий Александрович Собчак Constitutional Assembly chairman and first elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions 1937–2000
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–
Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов The Supreme Soviet chairman who stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks Legislature and state representation · Russian Federation state institutions 1942–2023
Yuri Markovich Goland Юрий Маркович Голанд Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate Scholarship and theory 1943–

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