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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 11 Government and administration 21 Military command 24 Security, intelligence and policing 6 Diplomacy and international organization 20 Economy, finance and planning 2 Social movements and organizing 6 Scholarship and theory 67 Science and technology 3 Literature and arts 5 Law and justice 1

Affiliation

Most people

Any Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1 Socialist Party of America 1

All 2 affiliations

Germany

Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

United States

Socialist Party of America 1

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 2 Western Marxist theorists 2 Marxism and communism 2 Liberalism and republicanism 2 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Soviet Union 70 United States 67 Russia 47 United Kingdom 30 France 10 Germany 8 China 6 Czechoslovakia 4 Hungary 4 Ukraine 3 Finland 2 Israel 2 Poland 2 Spain 2 Yugoslavia 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Austria 1 Belarus 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Cuba 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Ethiopia 1 Guyana 1 Ireland 1 Italy 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Somalia 1 Switzerland 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1

Background

Any United States 46 Russia 4 Armenia 2 Germany 2 India 2 Ukraine 2 United Kingdom 2 China 1 Cuba 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Japan 1 Poland 1 Romania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 1

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 3 Scholars of this history1892–현재 62

Scholarship and theory Citizenship: United States Clear all

67 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois "Capitalism cannot reform itself": father of the modern Negro liberation movement who joined the Communist Party at 93 Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1868–1963
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Питирим Александрович Сорокин SR leader imprisoned by both Tsar and Bolsheviks, who became founder of Harvard's sociology department Scholarship and theory · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1889–1968
Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse Frankfurt School philosopher and the pre-eminent theorist of the 1960s New Left Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1898–1979
George F. Kennan George F. Kennan The American diplomat and historian whose 1946 Long Telegram and X article laid the intellectual foundations of containment Scholarship and theory 1904–2005
Burnett Bolloten Burnett Bolloten A painstaking archival historian of the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1909–1987
Arthur M. Schlesinger Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A liberal historian who became an insider chronicler of power Scholarship and theory 1917–2007
Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson An American historian who interpreted the Spanish Republic and Civil War Scholarship and theory 1921–2019
Richard Edgar Pipes Richard Pipes The Cold War's leading conservative interpreter of Russian history who framed October as a coup Scholarship and theory 1923–2018
Martin Edward Malia Martin Edward Malia A historian who forecast the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1924–2004
Stuart Schram Stuart R. Schram Pioneer of Mao studies, author of The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung and editor of the ten-volume Mao’s Road to Power Scholarship and theory 1924–2012
Robert Vincent Daniels Robert Vincent Daniels A historian who traced revolutionary pluralism and the making of Stalinism Scholarship and theory 1926–2010
Vladimir Treml Vladimir Treml A scholar who quantified the Soviet economy's hidden flows Scholarship and theory 1929–2018
Paul Avrich Paul Avrich Historian who pioneered the history of Russian and American anarchism Scholarship and theory 1931–2006
Maurice Meisner Maurice Meisner Historian whose Mao’s China and After judged the Chinese revolution critically from within the Marxist tradition Scholarship and theory 1931–2012
Robert Owen Paxton Robert Owen Paxton The historian who recast Vichy collaboration Scholarship and theory 1932–
Theodore Merrill Vestal Theodore Vestal U.S. political scientist and Ethiopia specialist Scholarship and theory 1933–2023
Alexander Yevgenyevich Rabinowitch Alexander Evgen'evich Rabinowitch The revisionist historian who overturned the Cold War coup thesis with archival evidence Scholarship and theory 1934–2026
Stanley G. Payne Stanley G. Payne America's most prominent historian arguing the Second Republic's radicalization brought on the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1934–
Vojtech Mastny Vojtěch Mastný A historian who opened the Cold War archives Scholarship and theory 1936–
Ronald Radosh Ronald Radosh A historian whose break with communism led to conservative anti-communism Scholarship and theory 1937–
Stephen F. Frand Cohen Stephen F. Cohen American Russia scholar who argued through Bukharin's biography that the Soviet Union had reformable alternatives and collapse was avoidable Scholarship and theory 1938–2020
Samuel Farber Samuel Farber American sociologist who reopened the debate on the Cuban Revolution Scholarship and theory 1939–
Graham Allison Graham Allison Political scientist whose analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis reshaped the study of foreign-policy decision-making Scholarship and theory 1940–
Ronald Grigor Suny Ronald Grigor Suny The historian who argued the USSR built nations, not destroyed them, the 'revenge of the past' thesis Scholarship and theory 1940–
John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis The post-revisionist historian who, after the Soviet archives opened, argued Stalin bore primary responsibility for the Cold War Scholarship and theory 1941–
Paul R. Gregory Paul R. Gregory An economic historian who traced the bureaucracy of Soviet planning Scholarship and theory 1941–
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa 長谷川毅 A historian who recast the international history of Japan's surrender Scholarship and theory 1941–
William Chase Taubman William Chase Taubman A biographer who reshaped the study of Soviet leadership Scholarship and theory 1941–
Bruce Cumings Bruce Cumings The revisionist historian who recast the Korean War as fundamentally a civil war Scholarship and theory 1943–
Angela Davis Angela Davis Marxist feminist philosopher who theorised the prison-industrial complex, co-founder of Critical Resistance Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1944–
Nina Tumarkin Nina Tumarkin The preeminent chronicler of Soviet memory politics who traced the Lenin cult and the Great Patriotic War myth Scholarship and theory 1945–
William Whitney Stueck William Stueck The US diplomatic historian who reframed the Korean War as a substitute for World War III and led the post-revisionist challenge to Cumings Scholarship and theory 1945–
Amy Knight Amy Knight The American historian whose Beria biography revealed the paradox of Stalin's executioner as unlikely reformer Scholarship and theory 1946–
David Kotz David M. Kotz A political economist of Soviet system change Scholarship and theory 1946–
Richard B. Frank Richard B. Frank An archival military historian of the Pacific War Scholarship and theory 1947–
Robert C. Allen Robert C. Allen The Oxford economic historian who reassessed Soviet industrialization as one of the most successful development stories of the 20th century Scholarship and theory 1947–
Jonathan Brent Jonathan Brent American historian and publisher who documented Stalin's last conspiracy Scholarship and theory 1949–
J. Arch Getty J. Arch Getty A revisionist historian of Soviet political history Scholarship and theory 1950–2025
Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs An archival journalist who reconstructed the Cold War's most dangerous crises Scholarship and theory 1950–
Vladimir Kontorovich Владимир Конторович Economic historian who argued partial reform would only destroy the planning system Scholarship and theory 1950–
Vladimir Tismăneanu Vladimir Tismăneanu Romanian-American political scientist and authority on the 1989 revolutions Scholarship and theory 1951–
Barry Eichengreen Barry Eichengreen An economist who reads international monetary order through history Scholarship and theory 1952–
Bernd Jürgen Fischer Bernd Jürgen Fischer Balkan historian whose Albania at War brought Albania's wartime experience into European historiography Scholarship and theory 1952–
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama The scholar who read 1989 as liberal democracy's endpoint Scholarship and theory 1952–
Frederick Kempe Frederick Kempe A journalist-historian of Cold War crises Scholarship and theory 1954–
Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz A scholar who reread war after withdrawal Scholarship and theory 1954–
Mark R. Beissinger Mark R. Beissinger Political scientist who argued the Soviet collapse was produced by the event-driven tide of nationalism, not structural inevitability Scholarship and theory 1954–
Edward W. Walker Edward W. Walker A political scientist who analyzed Soviet dissolution through the paradoxes of federalism Scholarship and theory 1955–
Rafael Reuveny Rafael Reuveny Israeli-born political economist who established the causal-mechanism framework linking the Soviet-Afghan war to the USSR's collapse Scholarship and theory 1957–
Serhii Mykolayovych Plokhy Сергій Миколайович Плохій Harvard historian who argued Chernobyl was a direct cause of the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1957–

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