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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 193 Government and administration 42 Legislature and state representation 16 Military command 233 Security, intelligence and policing 169 Diplomacy and international organization 66 Economy, finance and planning 112 Industry and production 100 Agriculture and land policy 24 Ideology and propaganda 67 Social movements and organizing 205 Scholarship and theory 70 Education 9 Science and technology 133 Literature and arts 85 Religion 1 Law and justice 32

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 14 Soviet Unionstate 12 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1

All 4 affiliations

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 14 Soviet Unionstate 12

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Dissident 4 Anarchists 1 Marxism and communism 46

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 85 Russia 14 France 6 United States 5 Czechoslovakia 4 Germany 4 China 3 Hungary 3 Poland 2 United Kingdom 2 Angola 1 Belarus 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Indonesia 1 Latvia 1 South Africa 1 South Korea 1 Spain 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Turkey 1 Ukraine 1 Vietnam 1

Background

Any Russia 64 Latvia 5 Ukraine 4 Belarus 3 Poland 3 Georgia 2 Azerbaijan 1 Estonia 1 Kyrgyzstan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 37 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 24 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 15 The last generation1985–1991 9

Literature and arts Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

85 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky Константин Сергеевич Станиславский Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and creator of the Stanislavsky system Literature and arts 1863–1938
Alexander Serafimovich Александр Серафимович The Don Cossack's son who gave the revolution its epic Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1863–1949
Alexei Maximovich Gorky Алексей Максимович Горький The stormy petrel, caged Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1868–1936
Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva Мария Фёдоровна Андреева Actress turned Bolshevik financial agent whom Lenin called 'Comrade Phenomenon' Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1868–1953
Nariman Najaf oglu Narimanov Нариман Наджаф оглы Нариманов From Azerbaijani Enlightener to a Head of the Soviet State Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1870–1925
Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1874–1939
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1940
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov Александр Васильевич Александров From choirboy to Soviet anthem composer, founder of the Red Army Choir Literature and arts 1883–1946
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Alexander Konstantinovich Voronsky Александр Константинович Воронский Editor of Krasnaya Nov, Marxist critic who discovered Babel and Pasternak and led Pereval against RAPP Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built Literature and arts 1885–1953
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova Анна Андреевна Ахматова The poet who waited at the prison gates Literature and arts 1889–1966
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
El Markovich Lissitzky Эль Маркович Лисицкий Co-creator of Constructivism who turned Suprematism into architecture, the international link of the revolutionary avant-garde Literature and arts 1890–1941
Victor Lvovich Serge Виктор Львович Серж The Comintern writer-revolutionary who bore literary witness to revolution and the rise of Stalinism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1947
Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels Соломон Михайлович Михоэлс The Yiddish theatre titan who toured the world for Stalin's war effort and was murdered on Stalin's orders Literature and arts 1890–1948
Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1952
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Борис Леонидович Пастернак The poet of Doctor Zhivago and the refused Nobel Prize Literature and arts 1890–1960
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам The poet preserved by memory Literature and arts 1891–1938
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The unpublished writer of the devil Literature and arts 1891–1940
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев The 20th-century master who crossed revolution, emigration, and return, a giant of Soviet music Literature and arts 1891–1953
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg Илья Григорьевич Эренбург The Soviet writer between wartime reportage and The Thaw Literature and arts 1891–1967
Asja Ernestovna Lācis Asja Lācis Proletarian children's theatre pioneer who led Walter Benjamin to Marxism and Brecht Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1979
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Марина Ивановна Цветаева A Silver Age poet writing between exile and return Literature and arts 1892–1941
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin Константин Александрович Федин Novelist who began as a Serapion Brother and became the chief gatekeeper of Soviet literature for 18 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1892–1977
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский The revolution’s megaphone and satirist Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1893–1930
Mykola Hryhorovych Khvylovy Микола Григорович Хвильовий Founder of modern Ukrainian Soviet prose Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1933
Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak Борис Андреевич Пильняк The writer of revolutionary chaos Literature and arts 1894–1938
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel Исаак Эммануилович Бабель The short-story master who saw too much and wrote too little Literature and arts 1894–1940
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko Александр Петрович Довженко Poet of Earth: the Soviet master who sang the Ukrainian land and people through lyrical montage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1956
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko Михаил Михайлович Зощенко The satirist who dissected post-revolutionary Soviet life Literature and arts 1894–1958
Sergei Yesenin Сергей Есенин A poet of peasant memory and revolutionary dissonance Literature and arts 1895–1925
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Robert Petrovich Eideman Роберт Петрович Эйдеман Latvian-born Civil War hero turned defendant in the Tukhachevsky trial Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1937
Peretz Davidovich Markish Перец Давидович Маркиш A radical lyrical voice of Soviet Yiddish literature Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1952
Dziga Arkadyevich Vertov Дзига Аркадьевич Вертов Founder of Kino-Eye: the documentary revolutionary who believed the camera captures truth more completely than the human eye Literature and arts 1896–1954
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf Илья Арнольдович Ильф Co-author of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured the contradictions of NEP-era Soviet society Literature and arts 1897–1937
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov Михаил Ефимович Кольцов A leading voice of Soviet journalism whom Hemingway immortalized as Karkov Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1898–1940
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн Master of montage: the revolutionary filmmaker who created a new cinematic language and reshaped world cinema Literature and arts 1898–1948
Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1951
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1970
Alexei Alexandrovich Surkov Алексей Александрович Сурков Poet of "Zemlyanka" and the Writers' Union enforcer who led the campaign against Pasternak Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1899–1983
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Александр Александрович Фадеев Writers’ Union manager who killed himself at the thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1901–1956
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

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