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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 Communist Party and Bolsheviks 161 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 34 Soviet Union state institutions 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 5 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 4 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 3 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 3

All 27 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 3

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 1

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 21 Socialist-bloc reform leader 3 Non-Bolshevik socialists 5 Marxism and communism 160 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Nationalism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 193 China 40 Germany 39 France 38 Russia 38 Hungary 32 Poland 24 East Germany 15 Czechoslovakia 13 United Kingdom 12 Italy 11 United States 11 Romania 10 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 9 Spain 8 Bulgaria 7 Cambodia 7 Estonia 7 Mongolia 6 Yugoslavia 6 Angola 5 Vietnam 5 Yemen 5 Afghanistan 4 Azerbaijan 4 Cuba 4 Finland 4 Georgia 4 Turkey 4 Albania 3 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Czechia 3 Japan 3 Laos 3 Latvia 3 Lithuania 3 Austria 2 Belarus 2 Ethiopia 2 Greece 2 India 2 Indonesia 2 Korea 2 Madagascar 2 Moldova 2 Mozambique 2 Portugal 2 South Africa 2 Ukraine 2 Argentina 1 Belgium 1 Brazil 1 Chile 1 DR Congo 1 Egypt 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Iran 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Netherlands 1 Peru 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 106 Ukraine 11 Latvia 10 Armenia 8 Georgia 8 Belarus 7 Azerbaijan 5 Estonia 5 Poland 5 Lithuania 4 Finland 3 Kazakhstan 3 Kyrgyzstan 3 Tajikistan 3 Uzbekistan 3 Moldova 2 Turkmenistan 2 Bulgaria 1 France 1 Korea 1 Turkey 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 54 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 33 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 45 The last generation1985–1991 46

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 10 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1

Political and party leadership Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

193 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Zhumabay Shayakhmetovich Shayakhmetov Жумабай Шаяхметович Шаяхметов Kazakh SSR figure who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1966
Filipp Yegorovich Mikheyev Филипп Егорович Михеев An administrator swept into the Leningrad purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1975
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1982
Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1950
Antanas Juozovich Sniečkus Antanas Sniečkus The communist who ruled Soviet Lithuania for 34 years Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1974
Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Николай Викторович Подгорный Head of state in the Brezhnev-Kosygin collective leadership Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1983
Vilis Tenisovich Lācis Вилис Тенисович Лацис From Ulmanis's favorite novelist to the architect of Latvia's Sovietization Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1966
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov Михаил Александрович Шолохов The Russian and Soviet novelist of And Quiet Flows the Don Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1984
Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them” Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1995
Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov Николай Александрович Тихонов The conservative premier of late Brezhnevism Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1997
Johannes Gustavovich Käbin Иван Густавович Кэбин A pragmatic national communist who navigated between Moscow and Estonia for 28 years Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1999
Leonid Georgiyevich Melnikov Леонид Георгиевич Мельников First Secretary who ran the largest republican party in the USSR at the close of the Stalin era Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1981
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев The man whose statecraft was not rocking the boat Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1982
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
Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov Михаил Иванович Родионов The RSFSR premier who turned wartime Gorky into an arsenal Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1907–1950
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
Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov Дмитрий Фёдорович Устинов The defence-industry man who became defence minister Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1984
Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev Николай Семёнович Патоличев The man who ran Soviet foreign trade for 27 years, holder of eleven Orders of Lenin Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1989
Petro Yefimovich Shelest Пётр Ефимович Шелест The republic first secretary removed for investing in Ukrainian culture Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1996
Dmitry Ivanovich Chesnokov Дмитрий Иванович Чесноков The philosopher Stalin elevated to the Politburo in his final act Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1973
Gennady Ivanovich Voronov Геннадий Иванович Воронов The RSFSR premier who never stopped speaking bluntly to Brezhnev Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1994
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Константин Устинович Черненко The last General Secretary of the Brezhnev order Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–1985
Aleksei Pavlovich Shitikov Алексей Павлович Шитиков From Khabarovsk party boss to Chairman of the Soviet of the Union: the institutional face of federal legislation in the Brezhnev era Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–1993
Dinmukhamed Akhmetuly Kunaev Дінмұхамед Ахметұлы Қонаев The republic-builder who led Kazakhstan for 24 years as Brezhnev's partner, whose dismissal sparked the Zheltoksan uprising Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–1993
Jabbor Rasulovich Rasulov Джабар Расулович Расулов Agronomist who led Tajikistan for 21 years, a communist of ascetic modesty and incorruptibility Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1913–1982
Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev Михаил Сергеевич Соломенцев Brezhnev-era industrial technocrat who ran the Russian republic for 12 years Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–2008
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov Юрий Владимирович Андропов The paradox: a reformer’s patron inside the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1914–1984
Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov Кирилл Трофимович Мазуров Belarusian partisan leader who rose to Brezhnev's Politburo and served as USSR First Deputy Premier for thirteen years Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1914–1989
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov Константин Михайлович Симонов The poet of 'Wait for Me': six-time Stalin Prize-winning war correspondent and literary bureaucrat Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1915–1979
Augusts Eduardovich Voss Augusts Voss Latvian party boss turned Soviet of Nationalities chairman Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1916–1994
Sharaf Rashidovich Rashidov Шараф Рашидович Рашидов Writer turned leader who drove Uzbekistan's industrialization and cultural revival for 24 years, later tied to the Cotton Affair Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1917–1983
Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov Тихон Яковлевич Киселёв Belarus's premier for nearly 20 years who rose to First Secretary and candidate Politburo member, then died of cancer two years later Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–1983
Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky Дмитрий Степанович Полянский Brezhnev-era official across agriculture and government Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2001
Pyotr Mironovich Masherov Пётр Миронович Машеров Belarus's partisan-hero leader for 15 years who transformed an agrarian republic into an industrial powerhouse - his death a legend Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1918–1980
Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky Владимир Васильевич Щербицкий The Brezhnev-era republic-builder who led Ukraine for 17 years, linchpin of the Dnepr clan Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1918–1990
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1994
Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul Иван Иванович Бодюл The republic first secretary who ruled Moldavia for nearly 20 years as Brezhnev's close ally Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1918–2013
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2010
Turdakun Usubalievich Usubaliev Турдакун Усубалиевич Усубалиев The builder who transformed Kirghizia from an agrarian to an industrial republic across the Khrushchev-Brezhnev era Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–2015
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–1996
Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1921–1982
Muhammetnazar Gapurovich Gapurov Мухамедназар Гапурович Гапуров 16-year leader of Brezhnev-era Turkmenistan who integrated its cotton and gas economy into the Soviet center Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1922–1999
Lev Nikolayevich Zaikov Лев Николаевич Зайков The technocrat who rose from defense-plant apprentice to Politburo overseer of the military-industrial complex Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2002
Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev Александр Николаевич Яковлев The architect of glasnost: the ideology chief who dismantled the ideology Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1923–2005
Karl Genrikhovich Vaino Карл Генрихович Вайно First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party (1978–1988) who resisted perestroika and pushed Russification until Moscow replaced him. Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2022
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков The KGB chairman who designed the August coup Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2007
Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2012
Yefrem Yevseyevich Sokolov Яфрэм Евсеевич Сакалоў A Belarusian party leader who combined agricultural development with late-Soviet reform Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2022
Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov The last chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2023
Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin Геннадий Васильевич Колбин The unknown Russian party functionary whose appointment to Kazakhstan ignited the Zheltoksan uprising Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–1998

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