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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 160 Government and administration 35 Legislature and state representation 16 Military command 216 Security, intelligence and policing 167 Diplomacy and international organization 64 Economy, finance and planning 102 Industry and production 100 Agriculture and land policy 22 Ideology and propaganda 65 Social movements and organizing 169 Scholarship and theory 31 Education 9 Science and technology 121 Literature and arts 46 Law and justice 27

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 950 Soviet Union state institutions 933 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 119 Comintern 14 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 8 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 5

All 34 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 1

Finland

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

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

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

International organizations

Comintern 14

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutions 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 950 Soviet Union state institutions 933

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 2 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate) state institutions 1 ↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1

Position(set)

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 1158 China 54 Russia 30 Hungary 26 Germany 22 East Germany 19 Poland 15 Czechoslovakia 14 Yugoslavia 12 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 11 Vietnam 11 Angola 10 France 10 United States 10 Romania 8 Yemen 7 Mongolia 6 Albania 5 Bulgaria 5 Cambodia 5 Cuba 5 Italy 5 Spain 5 United Kingdom 5 Afghanistan 4 Ethiopia 4 Japan 4 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Czechia 3 Estonia 3 Laos 3 Moldova 3 Somalia 3 Azerbaijan 2 Brazil 2 Greece 2 Indonesia 2 Latvia 2 Mozambique 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 Argentina 1 Belarus 1 Benin 1 Burkina Faso 1 Chile 1 Finland 1 Grenada 1 Guyana 1 India 1 Kazakhstan 1 Korea 1 Madagascar 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Switzerland 1 Turkey 1 Turkmenistan 1 Ukraine 1 Uzbekistan 1

Background

Any Russia 822 Ukraine 92 Belarus 45 Georgia 30 Latvia 27 Poland 27 Armenia 25 Lithuania 16 Azerbaijan 14 Estonia 9 Germany 7 Uzbekistan 7 Finland 5 Kyrgyzstan 5 Moldova 5 Kazakhstan 3 Tajikistan 3 France 2 Korea 2 Turkey 2 Turkmenistan 2 Bulgaria 1 Czechia 1 Hungary 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 203 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 428 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 366 The last generation1985–1991 146

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 12 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Marxism and communism Citizenship: Soviet Union Clear all

1158 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1882–1932
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 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 state institutions 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
Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions 1882–1940
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1941
Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov Борис Михайлович Шапошников The only officer Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, author of The Brain of the Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1945
Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1952
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
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1955
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky Владимир Михайлович Загорский Revolutionary organizer who led the Moscow party and pioneered early Soviet diplomacy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1919
Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1927
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1936
Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky Николай Николаевич Крестинский An early Bolshevik responsible secretary later put in the dock Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1938
Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Александр Ильич Егоров The Southern Front commander who broke Denikin: the last of the first five marshals whose name was erased Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1939
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1940
Olga Davidovna Kameneva Ольга Давыдовна Каменева Trotsky's sister and Kamenev's wife: the architect of Soviet cultural diplomacy with the West Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1941
Ivan Dmitrievich Chugurin Иван Дмитриевич Чугурин Vyborg worker-Bolshevik who handed Lenin his party card Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1947
Aleksei Yegorovich Badayev Алексей Егорович Бадаев Official publisher of Pravda who rose from Duma deputy to nominal head of the Russian republic Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1951
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1954
Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1954
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk Science and technology 1883–1960
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1960
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1973
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1926
Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921 Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1927
Grigory Yeremeyevich Evdokimov Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов Zinoviev's right hand who saved Petrograd, then vanished at Stalin's first show trial Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1936
Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt Head of the Estonian Workers' Commune and leader of the 1924 rising Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin Владимир Павлович Милютин First People's Commissar for Agriculture who laid the statistical foundations of Soviet planning Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1937
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin Евгений Иванович Замятин The architect of a forbidden future Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1884–1937
Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky Александр Павлович Серебровский The "Soviet Rockefeller" who rebuilt Baku oil and organized the Soviet gold rush Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1938
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva Варвара Николаевна Яковлева The finance commissar who passed from Cheka to the Left Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1941
Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1884–1951

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