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People

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 Union state institutions 52 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 45 Comintern 14 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

All 8 affiliations

Germany

Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 14

Poland

Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 45 Soviet Union state institutions 52

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Marxism and communism 64

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 66 United States 20 Hungary 10 United Kingdom 6 France 5 Japan 5 Belarus 4 Czechoslovakia 4 Italy 4 China 3 Finland 3 Germany 3 Poland 3 Vietnam 3 Austria 2 Bulgaria 2 Latvia 2 Russia 2 Turkey 2 Albania 1 Angola 1 Armenia 1 Belgium 1 East Germany 1 Ecuador 1 Georgia 1 Lithuania 1 Myanmar 1 Romania 1 South Africa 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 42 Poland 6 Belarus 5 Ukraine 4 Georgia 2 Lithuania 2 Armenia 1 Finland 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Latvia 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 18 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 20 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 17 The last generation1985–1991 9

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2

Diplomacy and international organization Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

66 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1871–1923
Fyodor Aronovich Rothstein Фёдор Аронович Ротштейн Bolshevik historian who became Soviet Russia's first ambassador to Persia after thirty years of exile in Britain Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1871–1953
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1936
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1952
Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1946
Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1951
Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1878–1952
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1881–1964
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1937
Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1938
Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1952
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1955
Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1927
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1954
Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1884–1951
Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1975
Karl Berngardovich Radek Karol Radek The polemicist who survived trial only to die in prison Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1885–1939
Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1927
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1937
Arkady Pavlovich Rozengolts Аркадий Павлович Розенгольц Bolshevik who built the Soviet Air Force and ran foreign trade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1890–1938
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1986
Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1939
Grigory Naumovich Voitinsky Григорий Наумович Войтинский The Comintern's first envoy who midwifed the Chinese Communist Party Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1893–1953
Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1897–1935
Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1942
Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1937
Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1958
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif Павел Александрович Миф Comintern China specialist who cultivated the 28 Bolsheviks Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1901–1938
Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov Василий Васильевич Кузнецов Three-time interim head of state and Gromyko's First Deputy for 22 years Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1990
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
Mikhail Alexeyevich Menshikov Михаил Алексеевич Меньшиков Trade-and-diplomacy official sacked by Stalin over bananas, then returned as a Cold War ambassador under Khrushchev Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1976
Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin Валериан Александрович Зорин The Soviet Cold War diplomat who denied the Cuban missiles at the UN Security Council Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1986
Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev Аркадий Александрович Соболев Soviet diplomat who co-drafted the UN Charter, the Soviet face at the UN through the early Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1964
Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov Николай Васильевич Новиков Soviet diplomat whose Novikov Telegram answered Kennan's Long Telegram, framing US policy as imperialist expansion Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1989
Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1987
Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1980
Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1998
Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1964
Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1963
Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin Георгий Максимович Пушкин The Soviet diplomat who warned Khrushchev about Berlin Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1909–1963
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko Андрей Андреевич Громыко “Mister Nyet,” whose last move was to nominate the reformer Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1909–1989
Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1911–1992
Pyotr Andreyevich Abrassimov Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов The Soviet 'governing ambassador' who managed Cold War Berlin Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1912–2009
Alexander Ivanovich Alexeyev Александр Иванович Алексеев KGB officer turned first Soviet ambassador to Cuba who won Castro's trust and warned Khrushchev against the missile deployment Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–2001

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