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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 106 Government and administration 20 Legislature and state representation 5 Military command 177 Security, intelligence and policing 102 Diplomacy and international organization 42 Economy, finance and planning 93 Industry and production 81 Agriculture and land policy 16 Ideology and propaganda 52 Social movements and organizing 149 Scholarship and theory 55 Education 8 Science and technology 104 Literature and arts 64 Religion 1 Law and justice 23

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 703 Soviet Union state institutions 692 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 94 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 11 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 10 Left Opposition 8 Comintern 8 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 8

All 34 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 8 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 27 Socialist-bloc reform leader 15 Dissident 6 Anarchists 4 Non-Bolshevik socialists 9 Narodniks 4 Marxism and communism 822 Liberalism and republicanism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 951 Russia 177 United States 7 France 1 Germany 1 United Kingdom 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 951 Ukraine 100 Belarus 48 Georgia 35 Latvia 32 Poland 32 Armenia 28 Lithuania 17 Azerbaijan 14 Estonia 11 Germany 8 Uzbekistan 7 Moldova 6 Finland 5 Kyrgyzstan 5 Kazakhstan 4 Tajikistan 3 Turkey 3 Bulgaria 2 France 2 Korea 2 Turkmenistan 2 Czechia 1 Hungary 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 15 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 179 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 324 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 301 The last generation1985–1991 119

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 5 Scholars of this history1892–현재 5

Citizenship: Soviet Union Background: Russia Clear all

951 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Yuri Filippovich Solovyov Юрий Филиппович Соловьёв Ligachev protégé who led Leningrad during early perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1925–2011
Vladislav Grigoryevich Kolesnikov Владислав Григорьевич Колесников The last Soviet Minister of Electronics, who led microelectronics through perestroika's final years Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2015
Boris Ivanovich Aristov Борис Иванович Аристов The last Minister of Foreign Trade, who inherited a 27-year incumbent's post only to see the ministry itself abolished on his watch Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2018
Filip Denisovich Bobkov Филипп Денисович Бобков Architect of KGB ideological counterintelligence, 45-year Chekist under 12 chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1925–2019
Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov Василий Александрович Архипов Soviet submarine officer who refused to launch a nuclear torpedo and prevented nuclear war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–1998
Vasily Aleksandrovich Shamshin Василий Александрович Шамшин Engineer-turned-minister who led the modernization of Soviet communications infrastructure Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2009
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
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky Всеволод Серафимович Мураховский First chairman of Gosagroprom Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2017
Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1926–2018
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov Владимир Михайлович Комаров Voskhod 1 commander and the first human to perish in a spaceflight Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–1967
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
Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2006
Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев The last chief of the Soviet railways Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2007
Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев Late Soviet foreign-economic official Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2010
Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov Михаил Иванович Щадов The last Soviet coal minister, who drove open-pit mining and led the miners into the Chernobyl tunnel Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2011
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya Татьяна Ивановна Заславская Founder of Soviet economic sociology; her 1983 report lit the intellectual fuse of perestroika Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2013
Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2013
Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky Фёдор Михайлович Бурлацкий Architect of Khrushchev's reforms and pioneer of Soviet political science Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2014
Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1927–2015
Oleg Timofeyevich Bogomolov Олег Тимофеевич Богомолов An economist of socialist economic integration and reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2015
Nikolai Yefimovich Kruchina Николай Ефимович Кручина The last treasurer who guarded the party coffers through perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–1991
Dmitry Antonovich Volkogonov Дмитрий Антонович Волкогонов From Soviet military propagandist to the historian who opened the secret archives Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–1995
Viktor Pavlovich Karpov Виктор Павлович Карпов The face of Soviet arms control diplomacy across SALT, INF, and START Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–1997
Nikolai Alexeyevich Maltsev Николай Алексеевич Мальцев The minister who led Soviet oil to its peak through the West Siberian fields Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2001
Lev Petrovich Feoktistov Лев Петрович Феоктистов From nuclear-weapon designer to critic of the arms race Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2002
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev Владимир Михайлович Каменцев The technocrat who brought Soviet fisheries to global leadership Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2003
Igor Sergeyevich Belousov Игорь Сергеевич Белоусов The shipbuilding minister who built the Soviet Navy's strategic parity Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2005
Alexei Dmitrievich Lizichev Алексей Дмитриевич Лизичев The last GlavPUR chief who stood to defend the military political organs through perestroika Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2006
Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2008
German Arsenyevich Goncharov Герман Арсеньевич Гончаров Physicist from Sakharov's group who became the lead declassifier and historian of the Soviet H-bomb project Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2009
Yakov Petrovich Ryabov Яков Петрович Рябов Yeltsin's political patron and CPSU defence secretary who forced the T-72 tank through against Ustinov's opposition Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–2018
Valentin Karpovich Mesyats Валентин Карпович Месяц Agriculture minister of late stagnation Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2019
Yevgeny Mikhailovich Tyazhelnikov Евгений Михайлович Тяжельников The model Brezhnev-era youth-cadre pipeline apparatchik Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1928–2020
Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin Владимир Николаевич Чернавин The last C-in-C of the Soviet Navy, the nuclear submariner who first patrolled under the Arctic ice Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1928–2023
Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–1991
Sergei Pavlovich Pavlov Сергей Павлович Павлов The anti-thaw Komsomol chief who delivered the Moscow Olympics Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–1993
Viktor Petrovich Nikonov Виктор Петрович Никонов Gorbachev's agriculture successor who became his last internal critic Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–1993
Ivan Timofeyevich Frolov Иван Тимофеевич Фролов The philosopher who gave perestroika its humanist foundations: from defending genetics to founding the science of Man Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–1999
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev Андриян Григорьевич Николаев Soviet cosmonaut who flew humanity's first multi-day spaceflight aboard Vostok 3 Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2004
Apollon Sergeyevich Systsov Аполлон Сергеевич Сысцов Last Soviet Minister of Aviation Industry: from the Buran shuttle to the privatisation of a military-industrial empire Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2005
Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2008
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov Евгений Максимович Примаков The Arabist premier who turned his plane around over the Atlantic Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2015
Yuly Yakovlevich Olsevich Юлий Яковлевич Ольсевич Soviet economist who identified two incompatible regulators, plan and quasi-market, as the core contradiction of the Kosygin reform Scholarship and theory 1929–2016
Yuri Nikolayevich Khristoradnov Юрий Николаевич Христораднов Party chief who led the Gorky region for 14 years and the last Soviet overseer of religious affairs Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–2018
Grigori Fedotovich Krivosheyev Григорий Фёдорович Кривошеев The statistician who made Soviet war losses countable Scholarship and theory 1929–2019
Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov Евгений Иванович Чазов The father of Soviet cardiology who ran Kremlin medicine for 20 years Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2021
Stepan Alekseyevich Shalaev Степан Алексеевич Шалаев The last leader of the Soviet trade-union system Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2022
Vadim Andreyevich Medvedev Вадим Андреевич Медведев The last ideology secretary who dismantled ideology opened the spetskhran and abolished party orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1929–2025
Viktor Fyodorovich Grushko Виктор Фёдорович Грушко The KGB operational deputy who bridged foreign intelligence and counterintelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1930–2001
Yuri Sergeyevich Plekhanov Юрий Сергеевич Плеханов From KGB eavesdropping chief to head of leadership security, the man who pulled the coup's trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1930–2002

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