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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 38 Government and administration 27 Legislature and state representation 2 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 39 Security, intelligence and policing 8 Diplomacy and international organization 2 Economy, finance and planning 4 Industry and production 3 Agriculture and land policy 2 Ideology and propaganda 4 Social movements and organizing 39 Scholarship and theory 47 Science and technology 4 Literature and arts 14 Religion 6 Law and justice 8

Affiliation

Most people

Any Russian Empirestate 51 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 26 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Russian White movement 18 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 18 Soviet Unionstate 17 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 5

All 24 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 Empirestate 51 Russian White movement 18 Russian Federation state institutionsstate 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 3 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 5 Russian Provisional Governmentstate 4 Russian Orthodox Church 4 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 18 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 26 Soviet Unionstate 17

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 2

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 1 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 64 Counter-revolutionary forces 5 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Dissident 1 Anarchists 5 Non-Bolshevik socialists 21 Narodniks 14 Fascists and Nazis 1 Russian revolutionary democrats 6 Marxism and communism 30 Revolutionary socialism 1 Liberalism and republicanism 2 Conservatism and Christian democracy 3 Nationalism 6

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 1325 Russia 203 United States 156 France 129 Germany 106 Hungary 91 United Kingdom 70 China 69 Poland 56 Czechoslovakia 35 Japan 24 East Germany 22 Finland 21 Spain 20 Yugoslavia 20 Italy 18 Romania 18 Estonia 17 Lithuania 16 Vietnam 15 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 13 Greece 11 Angola 10 Austria 10 Latvia 10 Cambodia 9 Ukraine 9 Albania 8 Bulgaria 8 Cuba 8 Yemen 8 Belarus 7 Congo - Brazzaville 7 Czechia 7 Mongolia 7 Afghanistan 6 Ethiopia 6 Turkey 6 Azerbaijan 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 Benin 4 Georgia 4 Korea 4 Somalia 4 South Africa 4 Switzerland 4 Uzbekistan 4 Belgium 3 Indonesia 3 Moldova 3 Netherlands 3 Portugal 3 South Korea 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Armenia 2 Brazil 2 Chile 2 India 2 Israel 2 Mozambique 2 Argentina 1 Australia 1 Burkina Faso 1 Canada 1 DR Congo 1 Ecuador 1 Egypt 1 El Salvador 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guyana 1 Iran 1 Ireland 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Myanmar 1 Nicaragua 1 Peru 1 Singapore 1 Sweden 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1

Background

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 130 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 12 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 3 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 5 The last generation1985–1991 13

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 5 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 9 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 25

Citizenship: Russia

203 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Timofey Ivanovich Kirpichnikov Тимофей Иванович Кирпичников A soldier leader who defied imperial orders Military command · Russian Empire 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 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 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 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 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 1929–2007
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis Government and administration · Soviet Union 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 1930–2016
Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko Владимир Антонович Ивашко The last deputy general secretary before dissolution Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1932–1994
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–
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
Aleksei Polyansky Алексей Полянский The KGB-veteran writer who published Yezhov's case file wrapped in novelistic reconstruction Literature and arts 1947–1998
Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy Александр Владимирович Руцкой Russia's only vice president: stood with Yeltsin against the coup, then fell to Yeltsin's tanks Military command · Soviet Union 1947–
Pavel Ruslanovich Palazhchenko Павел Русланович Палажченко The interpreter who mediated summit diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1949–
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
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Владимир Владимирович Путин A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions 1952–
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–
Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin Сергей Владимирович Суровикин A Russian general shaped by obedience and uncompromising war Military command · Russian Federation state institutions 1966–
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–
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov Александр Васильевич Суворов Russian imperial field marshal and generalissimo, the 'Russian Hannibal' Military command · Russian Empire 1729/1730–1800
Alexander Sapozhkov Александр Сапожков Red Army division commander who raised the "Red Army of Truth" against grain requisitioning in 1920 Military command · Soviet Union ?–1920
Bogusław Zborowski Saul Zborowski The briefly recorded first chair of the Petersburg Soviet Social movements and organizing ?–?

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