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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

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Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 165 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 34 Left Opposition 15 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 12 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 5 Soviet Unionstate 5 Left Communists 4 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3

All 19 affiliations

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 26 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Dissident 2 Anarchists 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Narodniks 2 Marxism and communism 169

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 205 Russia 39 France 23 Poland 18 Germany 13 Hungary 11 United States 6 Estonia 5 United Kingdom 5 China 4 Czechoslovakia 4 Romania 4 Belarus 3 Spain 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Albania 2 Czechia 2 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2 Finland 2 Greece 2 Korea 2 South Africa 2 Switzerland 2 Austria 1 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 East Germany 1 El Salvador 1 India 1 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Madagascar 1 Vietnam 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 149 Ukraine 13 Belarus 9 Georgia 8 Latvia 6 Poland 6 Lithuania 3 Finland 2 Moldova 2 Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 1 Estonia 1 Germany 1 Korea 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 3 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 86 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 43 The last generation1985–1991 24

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 7 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Social movements and organizing Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

205 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович 'Iron Lazar', Stalin's hard-line enforcer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1991
Boris Mikhailovich Donskoy Борис Михайлович Донской Left SR sailor who killed the German field marshal Eichhorn with a bomb in Kiev in 1918 and was hanged Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1894–1918
Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1920
Iosif Mikhailovich Vareikis Иосиф Михайлович Варейкис Regional party boss of collectivization and the Great Terror who heard Stalin ask why there were so many spies on his watch Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1938
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
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
Boris Petrovich Sheboldaev Борис Петрович Шеболдаев Party master of the Azov-Black Sea krai, brought down on the eve of the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1937
Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev Андрей Андреевич Андреев The organization man who sat in the Politburo for 20 years, the CC secretary most often dispatched to purge the regions Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1971
Boris Ignatyevich Arvatov Борис Игнатьевич Арватов The Saint-Just of the avant-garde, theorist of production art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1940
Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1966
Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin Пётр Иванович Смородин The worker-Bolshevik who built the Komsomol's mass base and made 'study' its watchword Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1939
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
Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1898–1989
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
Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1981
Arvīds Yanovich Pelše Арвид Янович Пельше Brezhnev-era guardian of party discipline and Latvian-born Politburo member Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1983
Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1929
Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov Борис Георгиевич Бажанов The only defector from Stalin's Secretariat, chronicler of Politburo secrets Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1900–1982
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
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov Георгий Максимилианович Маленков The first loser of the age when losers stopped dying Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1988
Nikolai Pavlovich Chaplin Николай Павлович Чаплин The boy commissar who built the Komsomol into the party's youth-training apparatus Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1938
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov Евгений Петрович Петров Co-author with Ilf of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured NEP-era Soviet life and later edited Ogonyok magazine Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1942
Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1976
Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov Василий Михайлович Андрианов A Stalin-era regional party boss who ran wartime Sverdlovsk, then rebuilt Leningrad after the Leningrad Affair purges Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1978
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко Stalin's trusted partisan chief who orchestrated the Rail War, pushed aside at the threshold of succession Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1984
Vasil Pavlovich Mzhavanadze Васил Павлович Мжаванадзе The Georgian boss who ruled nineteen years, and godfathered a shadow economy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1902–1988
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev Александр Васильевич Косарев The young Komsomol chief who carried out the Great Purge and was then consumed by it Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1939
Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov Пётр Сергеевич Попков Wartime steward of besieged Leningrad, first victim of the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1950
Nikolai Ilyich Belyaev Николай Ильич Беляев Khrushchev loyalist who defended him in 1957, undone by the Temirtau riots Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Averky Borisovich Aristov Аверкий Борисович Аристов Presidium member born a fisherman's son, party cadres chief who loved to fish Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1973
Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1979
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1936
Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1950
Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1982
Nikolai Nikolayevich Shatalin Николай Николаевич Шаталин Malenkov's cadres chief: party organizer who oversaw the security organs after Stalin's death, then sidelined by Khrushchev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1904–1984
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Павел Алексеевич Черенков The Soviet Nobel physicist who discovered the Cherenkov effect Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1990
Alexei Alexandrovich Kuznetsov Алексей Александрович Кузнецов Postwar No. 2 in the Party Secretariat, purged in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1950
Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov Иван Васильевич Спиридонов Khrushchev-era Leningrad party boss who proposed removing Stalin's body from the Mausoleum and stumbled over the apparatus's loyalty test Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1967
Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1968
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1975
Vladimir Nikiforovich Malin Владимир Никифорович Малин 11-year keeper of the party's central document flow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1982
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko Андрей Павлович Кириленко Brezhnev-era senior secretary for cadres Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Ho Ka-i Алексей Хегай Principal organizer of the Workers' Party of Korea and leader of its early Soviet faction Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1908–1953
Frol Romanovich Kozlov Фрол Романович Козлов The second secretary whose stroke opened the Brezhnev era Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1965
Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko Алексей Илларионович Кириченко Khrushchev-era secretary for party appointments Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1975
Vladimir Fyodorovich Promyslov Владимир Фёдорович Промыслов The 23-year mayor who built the Brezhnev-era face of Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1993

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People of the Revolution and the USSR

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Finland

France

International organizations

Mongolia

Poland

Russia

Soviet Union

People of the Soviet Union

People of the wider world

205 people