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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

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 1008 Soviet Unionstate 963 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 144 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Left Opposition 16 Comintern 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 15 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11

All 50 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

Estonia

Estonia state institutionsstate 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 3

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Nazi party and regime 2 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 16

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 8 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 41 Socialist-bloc reform leader 20 Dissident 11 Anarchists 5 Non-Bolshevik socialists 11 Narodniks 4 Marxism and communism 1158 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Nationalism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 1325 Russia 203 United States 156 France 129 Germany 106 Hungary 91 United Kingdom 70 China 69 Poland 56 Czechoslovakia 35 Japan 24 East Germany 22 Finland 21 Spain 20 Yugoslavia 20 Italy 18 Romania 18 Estonia 17 Lithuania 16 Vietnam 15 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 13 Greece 11 Angola 10 Austria 10 Latvia 10 Cambodia 9 Ukraine 9 Albania 8 Bulgaria 8 Cuba 8 Yemen 8 Belarus 7 Congo - Brazzaville 7 Czechia 7 Mongolia 7 Afghanistan 6 Ethiopia 6 Turkey 6 Azerbaijan 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 Benin 4 Georgia 4 Korea 4 Somalia 4 South Africa 4 Switzerland 4 Uzbekistan 4 Belgium 3 Indonesia 3 Moldova 3 Netherlands 3 Portugal 3 South Korea 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Armenia 2 Brazil 2 Chile 2 India 2 Israel 2 Mozambique 2 Argentina 1 Australia 1 Burkina Faso 1 Canada 1 DR Congo 1 Ecuador 1 Egypt 1 El Salvador 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guyana 1 Iran 1 Ireland 1 Kazakhstan 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Myanmar 1 Nicaragua 1 Peru 1 Singapore 1 Sweden 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1

Background

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 268 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 453 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 390 The last generation1985–1991 173

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 4 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 15 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 6

Citizenship: Soviet Union

1325 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1872–1936
Aron Aleksandrovich Solts Арон Александрович Сольц The Bolshevik elder called 'conscience of the party': jurist who confronted the Prosecutor General during the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1872–1945
Pavel Ilyich Popov Павел Ильич Попов The founder of Soviet statistics whom Lenin rebuked and relied on Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1950
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 1872–1952
Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky Глеб Максимилианович Кржижановский Early architect of electrification and planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1872–1959
Augusts Kirhenšteins Augusts Kirhenšteins Microbiologist who headed the puppet government chosen by the Soviet embassy in 1940 and requested Latvia’s incorporation into the USSR Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1872–1963
Julius Osipovich Martov Юлий Осипович Мартов Lenin’s oldest friend and most principled adversary Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1873–1923
Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов The man who made Lenin furious over philosophy, then died swapping his own blood: a forerunner of cybernetics Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1928
Jukums Ioakimovich Vācietis Jukums Иоакимович Vācietis The Red Army's first commander-in-chief: an Imperial colonel who built the revolutionary armed forces Military command · Soviet Union 1873–1938
Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine 1873–1941
Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov Юрий Михайлович Стеклов First Soviet editor of Izvestia, architect of the Soviet constitution Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1941
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire Government and administration · Soviet Union 1873–1955
Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova Елена Дмитриевна Стасова The early Secretariat’s practical organizer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1873–1966
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand Инесса Фёдоровна Арманд The woman Bolshevik closest to Lenin: death saved her from the Purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1874–1920
Semyon Ivanovich Balashov Семён Иванович Балашов Bolshevik leader of Ivanovo-Voznesensk who built the first soviet alongside Frunze during the 1905 general strike Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1925
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union 1874–1932
Sergei Ivanovich Gusev Сергей Иванович Гусев Architect of the Red Army's political apparatus, Old Bolshevik who opposed Trotsky's military line Military command · Soviet Union 1874–1933
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1874–1934
Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich Пётр Гермогенович Смидович Iskra agent across three revolutions, KOMZET chairman who shaped Soviet nationality policy and the Birobidzhan Jewish experiment Government and administration · Soviet Union 1874–1935
Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov Владимир Александрович Базаров The Machist philosopher-economist of Gosplan who proposed a genetic-teleological planning synthesis Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1874–1939
Vladimir Gustavovich Groman Владимир Густавович Громан The Menshevik statistician who designed Gosplan's early control figures and balance method, leading voice of genetic planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1874–1940
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд Creator of biomechanics, the architect of theatre who staged revolution on stage Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1940
Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1874–1946
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Николай Александрович Бердяев A Russian thinker who left Marxism to found a Christian existentialist philosophy of freedom Scholarship and theory 1874–1948
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko Николай Александрович Семашко Founder of Soviet public health who designed free universal healthcare (the 'Semashko model') Science and technology · Soviet Union 1874–1949
Mikhail Fyodorovich Vladimirsky Михаил Фёдорович Владимирский Old Bolshevik who watched over the Party's books for a quarter-century Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1951
Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle Евгений Викторович Тарле Historian of Napoleon who won world renown, survived Academic Case exile, and returned under Stalin's personal protection Scholarship and theory 1874–1955
Pyotr Ioakimovich Palchinsky Пётр Иоакимович Пальчинский The Provisional Government's last technocrat who directed the defense of the Winter Palace Science and technology 1875–1929
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov Иван Гаврилович Александров A technical planner who linked electrification to regional development Science and technology 1875–1936
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich Иван Адольфович Теодорович First Commissar for Food, purged for his NEP-era agrarian Marxism Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1875–1937
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1875–1946
Vasily Nikolayevich Kayurov Василий Николаевич Каюров Vyborg Bolshevik organizer who turned the Women's Day protest into the February Revolution Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1936
Boris Mikhailovich Eltsin Борис Михайлович Эльцин A physician of the Left Opposition who shares a name with the first president of Russia Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1876–1937
Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky Владимир Иванович Невский The revolutionary-historian who seized the railways in October and wrote the party's history Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1876–1937
Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин The revolutionary who led Kazakhstan's 'Little October' Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1876–1941
Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko Николай Нилович Бурденко Founder of Soviet neurosurgery and Chief Surgeon of the Red Army Science and technology · Soviet Union 1876–1946
Rozaliya Samoilovna Zemlyachka Розалия Самойловна Землячка The 'Demon' Underground and the Only Woman Vice-Chair of Sovnarkom Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1876–1947
Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1876–1951
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1877–1926
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1877–1937
Nikolai Ivanovich Muralov Николай Иванович Муралов The revolutionary soldier who founded Post No. 1 at Lenin's Mausoleum Military command · Soviet Union 1877–1937
Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization Government and administration · Georgia state institutions 1877–1937
Alexander Petrovich Smirnov Александр Петрович Смирнов The peasant's son who ran the Krestintern and rose from NEP agriculture to the party Secretariat Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union 1877–1938
Boris Aleksandrovich Engelhardt Борис Александрович Энгельгардт Headed the Duma Military Commission whose order sending the garrison back to barracks triggered Order No. 1 Military command · Russian Empire 1877–1962
Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин The economist who designed socialism in numbers Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1877–1974
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin Виктор Павлович Ногин First commissar to resign demanding a coalition, buried on Red Square Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1878–1924
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 1878–1937
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин “The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1938
Moissei Ilyich Frumkin Моисей Ильич Фрумкин 'The countryside is against us': the deputy finance commissar who said it to the Politburo Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1878–1938

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