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People

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 37 Government and administration 6 Legislature and state representation 1 Military command 31 Security, intelligence and policing 13 Diplomacy and international organization 10 Economy, finance and planning 22 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 3 Ideology and propaganda 11 Social movements and organizing 63 Scholarship and theory 11 Education 4 Science and technology 6 Literature and arts 28 Religion 1 Law and justice 6

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 137 Soviet Union state institutions 109 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 70 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 10 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 9 Left Opposition 8 Russian Empire state institutions 6 Comintern 5

All 20 affiliations

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 5

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 26 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 4 Marxism and communism 139

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 179 Russia 9

Background(set)

Any Russia 188 Ukraine 19 Poland 16 Latvia 12 Belarus 9 Georgia 8 Armenia 4 Lithuania 4 Moldova 4 Germany 3 Kazakhstan 3 Estonia 2 Uzbekistan 2 Azerbaijan 1 Bulgaria 1 France 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 130 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 188 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 328 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 306 The last generation1985–1991 131

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 9 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2 Scholars of this history1892–현재 34

Background: Russia The revolutionary generation 1917–1940 Clear all

188 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Aron Lvovich Sheinman Арон Львович Шейнман Architect of the chervonets who tamed NEP inflation, then broke with Stalin as the first high-ranking Soviet financial defector Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1885–1944
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin Владимир Евграфович Татлин Creator of the most enduring symbol of revolutionary utopia: a tower that was never built Literature and arts 1885–1953
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov Николай Александрович Угланов The Right Opposition's institutional anchor in Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1938
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1919
Yuri Khrisanfovich Lutovinov Лутовинов, Хрисанфович Юрий Bolshevik revolutionary and metalworker from Lugansk, a leader of the Workers' Opposition Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1924
Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев A Red Army commander shaped by the air war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1934
Innokenty Nikolayevich Stukov Иннокентий Николаевич Стуков A revolutionary who consistently pursued the intra-party left line, from Left Communism to the United Opposition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1936
Andrei Lukich Kolegayev Андрей Лукич Колегаев First People's Commissar for Agriculture in the Soviet coalition, co-author of the Law on the Socialization of Land Agriculture and land policy · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1937
Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov Николай Павлович Глебов-Авилов First People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs who later built Rostselmash, flagship of Soviet agricultural machinery Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Timofei Vladimirovich Sapronov Тимофей Владимирович Сапронов Leader of the 'Democratic Centralists' who demanded inner-party workers' democracy Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Smirnov Владимир Михайлович Смирнов From Moscow uprising artillery commander to Left Communist and Democratic Centralist Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1937
Pyotr Kirillovich Koganovich Пётр Кириллович Коганович The Siberian food chief whose name is one letter away from a Politburo member Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky Валериан Валерианович Оболенский First chairman of VSNKh; theorist of the Left Communists and of Democratic Centralism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1887–1938
Sergei Yakovlevich Bagdatev Сергей Яковлевич Багдатьев A Bolshevik praktik who pushed the movement's radical edge Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1949
Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya Ирина Константиновна Каховская Left SR who organised the 1918 assassination of the German field marshal Eichhorn in Kiev and spent decades in Soviet prisons and exile Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1960
Yakov Moiseevich Fishman Яков Моисеевич Фишман Revolutionary who went from Left SR leader to architect of Soviet chemical warfare Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1887–1961
Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1927
Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский The Red commander of the Urals Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1936
Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov Александр Васильевич Чаянов The agrarian economist who uncovered the moral logic of peasant economy Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Semyon Semyonovich Lobov Семён Семёнович Лобов Bolshevik industrial administrator who rose from the Cheka to chair VSNKh RSFSR Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko Антон Семёнович Макаренко Educator who raised street children through labour and self-rule: one of UNESCO's four great 20th-c. pedagogues Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov Григорий Яковлевич Сокольников The finance commissar of NEP stabilization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1939
Alexander Stepanovich Antonov Александр Степанович Антонов The man whose name became the rebellion: SR leader of the Tambov 'Antonovshchina,' the largest peasant uprising against Bolshevik rule Social movements and organizing · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1889–1922
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1942
Gavriil Ilyich Myasnikov Гавриил Ильич Мясников Worker-Bolshevik who demanded press freedom from Lenin, sparking the 'myasnikovshchina' polemic Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1945
Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1969
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan Фанни Ефимовна Каплан The SR activist who shot Lenin, believing him a 'traitor to the revolution' Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1890–1918
Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1918
Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin Мартемьян Никитич Рютин Right Oppositionist who authored the 'Ryutin Platform': the last organized intra-party call to remove Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1937
Yakov Naumovich Drobnis Яков Наумович Дробнис Founder of Ukrainian Bolshevism, signatory of the Declaration of the 46 Political and party leadership · Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1890–1937
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
Lev Natanovich Kritsman Лев Натанович Крицман The agrarian Marxist who theorized War Communism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1938
El Markovich Lissitzky Эль Маркович Лисицкий Co-creator of Constructivism who turned Suprematism into architecture, the international link of the revolutionary avant-garde Literature and arts 1890–1941
Victor Lvovich Serge Виктор Львович Серж The Comintern writer-revolutionary who bore literary witness to revolution and the rise of Stalinism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1947
V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1918
Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1920
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1937
Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1938
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The unpublished writer of the devil Literature and arts 1891–1940
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1973
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924
Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1925
Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938

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