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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

Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov Николай Павлович Брюханов The commissar who steered from famine's shadow to NEP finance, then fell under industrialization's demands Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1941
Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1943
Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1945
Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1878–1952
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин The leader born to a poor Georgian family who came to dominate party and state Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1953
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky Григорий Иванович Петровский Worker-Bolshevik who gave his name to Dnipropetrovsk and led Soviet Ukraine for two decades Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1958
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Boris Savinkov Борис Савинков Terrorist, Counter-Revolutionary: the Black Horse of the Revolution Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1879–1925
Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine 1879–1925
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky Яков Станиславович Ганецкий The Polish revolutionary who ran Lenin's financial pipeline from Kraków to Stockholm Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1938
Leon Davidovich Trotsky Лев Давидович Троцкий The orator who built the Red Army, felled by an ice axe Military command · Soviet Union 1879–1940
Evgeny Samuilovich Varga Varga Jenő The Marxist economist who predicted the Great Depression, and was punished for arguing capitalism could adapt Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1879–1964
Semyon Aronovich Klivansky Семён Аронович Кливанский Menshevik Bundist intellectual who drafted the core of Order No. 1 among the soldiers Social movements and organizing · General Jewish Labour Bund 1879 – 1944 이후
Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov Михаил Артемьевич Муравьёв Tsarist officer turned Red commander who took Kyiv, battled in Bessarabia, and rebelled against Brest-Litovsk Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1918
Vincas Kapsukas Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas Founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party who headed Soviet Lithuania and Litbel Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1880–1935
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky Михаил Павлович Томский Chief of the Soviet trade unions, third man of the Right Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1880–1936
Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov Александр Михайлович Краснощёков The pragmatic Bolshevik who designed and led the Far Eastern Republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1880–1937
Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1880–1937
Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев The Soviet Union's greatest fortification scientist, who chose martyrdom at Mauthausen over collaboration with the Nazis Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1945
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1948
Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov Василий Алексеевич Дегтярёв Founder of Soviet firearms design, creator of the DP-27, DShK, and PTRD Industry and production · Soviet Union 1880–1949
Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe Абрам Фёдорович Иоффе The 'Papa Ioffe' who reared all of Soviet physics Science and technology · Soviet Union 1880–1960
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Karpinsky Вячеслав Алексеевич Карпинский Lenin's trusted Bolshevik publicist and a 68-year party veteran Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1880–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence Military command · Soviet Union 1880–1969
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander Military command · Soviet Union 1881–1925
Ivan Nikitich Smirnov Иван Никитич Смирнов The Siberian Bolshevik of the Left Opposition Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1936
Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union 1881–1936
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition Government and administration · Soviet Union 1881–1938
Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1881–1938
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1948
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin Абрам Моисеевич Деборин Founder of Soviet Marxist philosophy, condemned as 'Menshevizing idealism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1963
Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1881–1964
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов Stalin’s marshal, sustained by loyalty more than command Military command · Soviet Union 1881–1969
Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotieva Лидия Александровна Фотиева Lenin's personal secretary and conduit of his final political struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1975
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1882–1920
Kamo Симон Тер-Петросян The Bolsheviks' legendary expropriator, the revolutionary who feigned madness and survived four death sentences Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1922
Yuri Mikhailovich Larin Юрий Михайлович Ларин An imaginative economic theorist who bridged NEP and central planning, co-founded Gosplan, and championed Jewish agricultural settlement Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1882–1932
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1882–1937
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1882–1937
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union 1882–1938
Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1938
Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov Пётр Алексеевич Богданов Architect of NEP industrialization who championed trusts against Glavkist centralization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1882–1938
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1882–1940

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