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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Legislature and state representation 1 Scholarship and theory 151 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 3

Affiliation

Most people

Any Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 2 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of China 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 1 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

All 7 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 2

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 Western Marxist theorists 2 Marxism and communism 6 Liberalism and republicanism 4 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1

Citizenship

Any United States 62 United Kingdom 26 Russia 23 Soviet Union 6 China 3 France 3 Ukraine 3 Czechoslovakia 2 Hungary 2 Israel 2 Spain 2 Yugoslavia 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Cuba 1 Ethiopia 1 Finland 1 Ireland 1 Italy 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Poland 1 Portugal 1 Somalia 1 Switzerland 1

Background

Any United States 43 Russia 32 United Kingdom 25 Ukraine 5 China 4 Poland 4 Armenia 3 Czechoslovakia 3 France 3 Croatia 2 Cuba 2 Hungary 2 India 2 Ireland 2 Spain 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Ethiopia 1 Finland 1 Germany 1 Israel 1 Italy 1 Japan 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Somalia 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 23 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 13 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 19 The last generation1985–1991 12

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 2 People of the Mao era1949–1976 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 13 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 17 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 11 Scholars of this history1892–현재 151

Scholarship and theory Scholars of this history 1892–현재 Clear all

151 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Yang Jisheng 杨继绳 The Xinhua reporter who lost his father to the famine and, in Tombstone, documented 36 million Great Famine deaths Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of China 1940–
Ángel Viñas Ángel Viñas The Spanish Civil War historian who demolished Francoist myths with archival evidence Scholarship and theory 1941–
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–
Sebastian Balfour Sebastian Balfour British historian whose 'Castro' argued US hostility pushed Cuba toward socialism Scholarship and theory 1941–
Sheila Fitzpatrick Sheila Fitzpatrick Revisionist trailblazer who reconstructed Soviet social history 'from below' 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–
Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov Валерий Александрович Тишков An ethnologist who challenged the nation as a fixed essence 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–
Yuri Markovich Goland Юрий Маркович Голанд Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate Scholarship and theory 1943–
Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev Евгений Михайлович Андреев A mathematical demographer who made mortality and life expectancy legible Scholarship and theory 1944–
Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznechevsky Владимир Дмитриевич Кузнечевский A historian who traces the Russian question through Soviet history Scholarship and theory 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–
Aleksandr Antonovich Lyakhovsky Александр Антонович Ляховский Russian general-major and insider historian of the Afghan war Scholarship and theory 1946–2009
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–
Fred Halliday Fred Halliday Irish scholar of Middle East international politics and South Yemen Scholarship and theory 1946–2010
Bahru Zewde ባህሩ ዘውዴ Historian of modern Ethiopia Scholarship and theory 1947–
Richard B. Frank Richard B. Frank An archival military historian of the Pacific War Scholarship and theory 1947–
Richard Overy Richard Overy A historian who connects war’s military outcomes to its psychological meaning 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–
Robert Service Robert Service A contentious biographer of Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1947–
Stephen G. Wheatcroft Stephen G. Wheatcroft Australian economic historian who reconstructed Soviet famine and repression statistics from the archives Scholarship and theory 1947–
Pío Moa Pío Moa Former Maoist urban guerrilla turned Francoist revisionist historian who reignited Spain's Civil War debates Scholarship and theory 1948–
Jonathan Brent Jonathan Brent American historian and publisher who documented Stalin's last conspiracy Scholarship and theory 1949–
Marifeli Pérez-Stable Marifeli Pérez-Stable Cuban-born US sociologist and historian of the Cuban Revolution Scholarship and theory 1949–
Mark Harrison Mark Harrison the British economic historian whose three-position taxonomy of NEP's failure shaped the historiographical debate Scholarship and theory 1949–
J. Arch Getty J. Arch Getty A revisionist historian of Soviet political history Scholarship and theory 1950–2025
Jan Pauer Jan Pauer The historian who interpreted the Prague Spring between the tanks and the memory wars Scholarship and theory 1950–
Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs An archival journalist who reconstructed the Cold War's most dangerous crises Scholarship and theory 1950–
Rustem Makhmutovich Nureyev Рустем Махмутович Нуреев The institutional economist who crystallized the 50-year debate over the Kosygin reform in a single book title Scholarship and theory 1950–2023
Shen Zhihua 沈志华 A historian who reread Sino-Soviet relations through Cold War archives 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–
Dalila Cabrita Mateus Dalila Cabrita Mateus Portuguese historian of the colonial war and of Angola's 1977 purge Scholarship and theory 1952–2014
David Marples David Marples A historian connecting Chernobyl to modern Eastern European history 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–
Gao Hua 高华 Nanjing University historian whose How the Red Sun Rose dissected the Yan’an rectification movement Scholarship and theory 1954–2011
Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko Геннадий Васильевич Костырченко The archival historian of Stalin's state antisemitism who argued the 1953 deportation was a myth Scholarship and theory 1954–
Henry Rousso Henry Rousso A historian who reshaped the history of Vichy and wartime memory Scholarship and theory 1954–
Julian Jackson Julian Jackson A historian who clarified the political conflicts of modern France 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–
Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash British historian who coined 'refolution' to define the peaceful revolutions of 1989 Scholarship and theory 1955–

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