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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 Union state institutions 58 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 48 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

All 6 affiliations

Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 48 Soviet Union state institutions 58

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1

Position

Any Dissident 1 Anarchists 1 Marxism and communism 65

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 67 Hungary 8 China 5 East Germany 4 Germany 4 Russia 4 France 3 Lithuania 2 Benin 1 Estonia 1 Romania 1 Turkey 1 United Kingdom 1

Background

Any Russia 52 Armenia 4 Belarus 4 Ukraine 3 Lithuania 2 Turkmenistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 14 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 16 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 30 The last generation1985–1991 6

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1

Ideology and propaganda Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

67 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1863–1933
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1864–1935
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1868–1932
Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1868–1944
Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1870–1928
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1933
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1878–1937
Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1948
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin Абрам Моисеевич Деборин Founder of Soviet Marxist philosophy, condemned as 'Menshevizing idealism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1963
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1920
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1882–1945
Boris Dmitriyevich Grekov Борис Дмитриевич Греков Founder of Soviet medieval studies; established the feudal interpretation of Kievan Rus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1953
Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1886–1938
Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1938
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1938
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1946
Ivan Mikhailovich Gronsky Иван Михайлович Гронский The literary commissar who coined 'socialist realism' with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1985
Aleksei Ivanovich Stetsky Алексей Иванович Стецкий Propaganda chief who moved from Bukharin's 'red professor' circle to Stalin's side Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1938
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1948
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1979
Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1899–1968
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1932
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
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
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
Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov Фёдор Васильевич Константинов Chief editor of the 5-volume Philosophical Encyclopedia and architect of the standard Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosophy textbook Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1991
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1982
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1978
Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov Бонифатий Михайлович Кедров Philosopher of science who systematized dialectical materialism for natural science and created the Kedrov Triangle Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1985
Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1986
Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1991
Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev Борис Николаевич Пономарёв The party international chief who managed the communist line abroad Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1995
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 Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1982
Leonid Fyodorovich Ilyichev Леонид Фёдорович Ильичёв Khrushchev's chief ideologue: the philosopher who edited both Pravda and Izvestia, then designed the anti-religious campaign Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Georgy Fyodorovich Alexandrov Георгий Фёдорович Александров Stalin's chief ideological supervisor, broken by a philosophy debate Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1961
Pyotr Nikolayevich Fedoseyev Пётр Николаевич Федосеев The philosophical administrator of the Soviet ideological apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1990
Alexei Vladimirovich Romanov Алексей Владимирович Романов The Goskino chairman who harvested Politburo phone calls every Monday and enforced cuts he didn't always believe in Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1998
Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1974
Sergei Pavlovich Trapeznikov Сергей Павлович Трапезников The gatekeeper of academic orthodoxy in the Brezhnev era Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1912–1984
Vladimir Ilyich Stepakov Владимир Ильич Степаков Brezhnev-era Agitprop chief removed over a misattributed Lenin quote Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1912–1987
Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin Сергей Георгиевич Лапин Brezhnev's broadcasting czar who ran all Soviet TV and radio for 15 years Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1912–1990
Vasily Filimonovich Shauro Василий Филимонович Шауро The 'Great Mute' who presided as the party's gatekeeper of Soviet culture for 21 years Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–2007
Sergei Mitrofanovich Kovalev Сергей Митрофанович Ковалёв Soviet ideologue who codified the Brezhnev Doctrine in the pages of Pravda Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1913–1990
Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin Михаил Васильевич Зимянин Brezhnev's 'number two party ideologist' after Suslov Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–1995
Pyotr Nilovich Demichev Пётр Нилович Демичев A Brezhnev-era manager of cultural policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2010
Lev Nikolayevich Tolkunov Лев Николаевич Толкунов From Izvestia editor to Soviet of the Union chairman: a Brezhnev-era media mandarin who became the face of the supreme legislature Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–1989
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2006
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–2011

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