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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 33 Government and administration 11 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 109 Security, intelligence and policing 110 Diplomacy and international organization 20 Economy, finance and planning 24 Industry and production 42 Agriculture and land policy 5 Ideology and propaganda 16 Social movements and organizing 41 Scholarship and theory 13 Education 3 Science and technology 39 Literature and arts 24 Law and justice 12

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 379 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 349 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Comintern 4 Nazi party and regime 2 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 General Jewish Labour Bund 2

All 18 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 1

Germany

Nazi party and regime 2 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 4

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 United Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 349 Soviet Union state institutions 379

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 3 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 428

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 453 Russia 3 Germany 1 Japan 1 United States 1

Background

Any Russia 324 Ukraine 34 Belarus 18 Georgia 15 Latvia 11 Poland 11 Armenia 10 Lithuania 7 Azerbaijan 4 Germany 4 Estonia 3 Turkey 2 Czechia 1 France 1 Hungary 1 Korea 1 Moldova 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 15 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 268 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 453 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 390 The last generation1985–1991 173

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 4 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 15 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 6

Citizenship: Soviet Union People of the Stalin era 1929–1953 Clear all

453 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Ivan Yakovlevich Lavrushin Иван Яковлевич Лаврушин NKVD chief who chaired the Gorky oblast troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1940
Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern Григорий Михайлович Штерн Victor of Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol, purged Far Eastern Front commander Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1941
Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1954
Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava Лаврентий Фомич Цанава "Second Lavrentiy"; Beria's man who ran the Mikhoels killing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1955
Grigory Artemyevich Arutinov Григорий Артемьевич Арутинов 'Grigory the Builder': led Soviet Armenia for 16 years under Stalin, driving industrialization and a national cultural revival Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1900–1957
Dmitri Vasilyevich Yefremov Дмитрий Васильевич Ефремов The electrical engineer under NKVD investigation who became minister and delivered isotope separation for the atomic bomb Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1960
Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin Семён Алексеевич Лавочкин Fighter designer who secured Soviet air supremacy with the La-5 and La-7 Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1960
Pavel Fyodorovich Zhigarev Павел Фёдорович Жигарев Twice Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force: led the VVS through Barbarossa and rebuilt it in the post-Stalin era Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1963
Pyotr Vasilyevich Fedotov Пётр Васильевич Федотов 38-year Chekist who commanded both counterintelligence and foreign intelligence from Cheka to KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1963
Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev Арсений Григорьевич Зверев Long-serving finance minister through war and reconstruction Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1969
Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov Александр Александрович Новиков The VVS commander who rebuilt a shattered force into the air armada that swept the Luftwaffe from the sky Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1976
Mikhail Yefimovich Katukov Михаил Ефимович Катуков Marshal of Armoured Troops who stopped Guderian and led the 1st Guards Tank Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1976
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov Сергей Иванович Огольцов An operative who spanned every iteration of Soviet state security across 35 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1976
Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky Иван Иванович Федюнинский Hero of Khalkhin Gol who commanded the army that broke the siege of Leningrad Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1977
Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1977
Vladimir Filippovich Tributs Владимир Филиппович Трибуц Longest-serving wartime fleet commander, from the Tallinn breakout to Königsberg Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1977
Filipp Ivanovich Golikov Филипп Иванович Голиков The GRU chief who held the intelligence yet missed the invasion, and fought his way back to marshal Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1980
Vasily Gavrilovich Grabin Василий Гаврилович Грабин Master of Soviet field artillery, creator of the speed-design method Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1980
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov Василий Иванович Чуйков “There is no land for us beyond the Volga” Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1982
Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin Павел Алексеевич Курочкин From Civil War cavalryman to the commander whose army liberated Auschwitz, the last surviving wartime Front commander Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1989
Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov Илья Григорьевич Старинов The 'grandfather of Soviet special forces,' a sabotage engineer who designed the radio-controlled mine and the partisan rail war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–2000
Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1939
Dmitry Matveyevich Dmitriev Дмитрий Матвеевич Дмитриев The Sverdlovsk NKVD chief whose testimony first unspooled the 'NKVD conspiracy' Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1939
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Pamfilov Константин Дмитриевич Памфилов Wartime RSFSR acting premier who oversaw civilian evacuation amid the Moscow panic Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1943
Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin Николай Фёдорович Ватутин Strategic architect of Stalingrad and Kursk, the army general who fell at the front Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1944
Alexander Sergeyevich Shcherbakov Александр Сергеевич Щербаков Stalin's wartime propaganda chief and Moscow party boss, whose death became a spark for the Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1945
Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov Андрей Андреевич Власов Hero of the Battle of Moscow who defected to lead the Nazi-backed Russian Liberation Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1946
Nikolai Vladimirovich Feklenko Николай Владимирович Фекленко An armoured commander tested by shifting fronts Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1951
Sergo Arsenievich Goglidze Сергей Арсеньевич Гоглидзе From running the terror in Georgia to overlord of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1953
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Александр Александрович Фадеев Writers’ Union manager who killed himself at the thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1956
Avraami Pavlovich Zavenyagin Авраамий Павлович Завенягин Industrial organizer of the Stalin era, from Magnitogorsk and Norilsk to the atomic bomb Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1956
Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev Михаил Васильевич Хруничев The aviation minister who persuaded Stalin to buy British jet engines and opened the MiG-15 era Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1961
Nikolai Karotamm Nikolai Karotamm First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party in 1944–1950, removed in 1950 for allegedly shielding “bourgeois nationalists” Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1969
Mikhail Ilyich Romm Михаил Ильич Ромм The director who built Lenin's screen myth for Stalin, then dissected fascism under the Thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1971
Pyotr Akimovich Dibrova Пётр Акимович Диброва Soviet commandant of Berlin who declared a state of emergency in East Berlin on 17 June 1953 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1971
Aleksei Semyonovich Zhadov Алексей Семёнович Жадов The commander Stalin made change his name, who led the 5th Guards Army from Stalingrad to Prague Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1977
Pavel Alekseyevich Rotmistrov Павел Алексеевич Ротмистров The Marshal of Armour who commanded history's largest tank battle at Prokhorovka Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1982
Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1983
Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов Head of SMAD’s Propaganda Administration who drove the founding of the SED and the Sovietisation of eastern Germany Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1984
Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko Дмитрий Данилович Лелюшенко 'General Forward' who halted Guderian at the gates of Moscow and drove the 4th Guards Tank Army to Prague Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1987
Mark Borisovich Mitin Марк Борисович Митин Stalin-era chief philosophical authority who installed dialectical materialism as state doctrine Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1987
Ivan Vladimirovich Kovalev Иван Владимирович Ковалёв The railway general who moved armies in secret, and fell over a pair of earrings Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1993
Nikolai Nikolayevich Selivanovsky Николай Николаевич Селивановский The counterintelligence officer who bypassed the chain of command and telegraphed Stalin to replace Stalingrad's commander Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1997
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky Александр Иванович Успенский The Ukrainian NKVD chief who faked his suicide and ran Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1940
Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich Яков Владимирович Смушкевич A victorious air-force builder destroyed by the purges Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1941
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky Константин Александрович Уманский From TASS correspondent to youngest ambassador in Washington. The sharp, combative face of Stalin's wartime diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1945
Viktor Pavlovich Zhuravlev Виктор Павлович Журавлёв Author of the letter that brought Yezhov down Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1946
Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev Василий Васильевич Вахрушев The commissar who turned coal into a weapon Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1947
Sergei Alexandrovich Khudyakov Сергей Александрович Худяков Stalin's air adviser at Tehran and Yalta. The Red Army's only Armenian Marshal of Aviation, executed 1950 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1950
Nikita Alekseyevich Izotov Никита Алексеевич Изотов Pioneer of the Izotov movement (1932): mass on-the-job mentoring that became the template for Stakhanovism Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1951

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