People of the Revolution and the USSR
Diplomacy and international organization
Background: Russia
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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- Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar
- Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
- 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
- Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind
- Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact
- Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky Константин Александрович Уманский From TASS correspondent to youngest ambassador in Washington. The sharp, combative face of Stalin's wartime diplomacy
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov Николай Васильевич Новиков Soviet diplomat whose Novikov Telegram answered Kennan's Long Telegram, framing US policy as imperialist expansion
- Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy
- Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice
- Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule
- Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov Валентин Михайлович Бережков Stalin's personal interpreter at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam who became the Soviet Union's leading Americanist