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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin Станислав Густавович Струмилин
The economist who designed socialism in numbers
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1877–1974
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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
1883–1951
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Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Иван Павлович Бардин
Father of Soviet ferrous metallurgy who built Kuznetsk
Science and technology
1883–1960
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Grigory Alexandrovich Feldman Григорий Александрович Фельдман
The Gosplan mathematical economist who first formalized the capital-goods-led growth model
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1884–1958
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Jānis Ernestovich Rudzutaks Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак
Latvian Bolshevik who denounced NKVD case fabrication in court
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1887–1938
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Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev Валериан Владимирович Куйбышев
Planning official of the first Five-Year Plans
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1935
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Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович
Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1888–1937
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Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk Валерий Иванович Межлаук
A planner purged by the system he served
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1893–1938
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Lev Yefimovich Maryasin Лев Ефимович Марьясин
The Gosbank chairman Stalin called 'our Red banker' and removed a week later
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1894–1938
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Nikolai Kirillovich Antipov Николай Кириллович Антипов
The control commissar who ran Stalin's personnel-appointment machinery
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1894–1938
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Yakov Ilyich Golev Яков Ильич Голев
The finance technocrat who led Gosbank through the post-war reconstruction years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1894–1960
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Ivan Adamovich Kraval Иван Адамович Краваль
The statistician who counted a population that displeased Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina Полина Семёновна Жемчужина
The first woman to head a Soviet industrial ministry, Molotov's wife, caught between Kremlin power and Jewish identity
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1897–1970
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Ivan Grigoryevich Kabanov Иван Григорьевич Кабанов
The wartime electrical industry chief who delivered lithium-6 for the hydrogen bomb, and Stalin's last foreign trade minister
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1898–1972
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Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev Арсений Григорьевич Зверев
Long-serving finance minister through war and reconstruction
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1969
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Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров
Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1977
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Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко
Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1901–1983
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Ivan Vladimirovich Kovalev Иван Владимирович Ковалёв
The railway general who moved armies in secret, and fell over a pair of earrings
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1901–1993
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Gennady Ivanovich Smirnov Геннадий Иванович Смирнов
Gosplan chief who vanished into the Terror in eight months
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1938
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Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский
Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1950
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Vasily Fyodorovich Popov Василий Фёдорович Попов
The Gosbank chairman who executed postwar monetary reform over a decade
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1964
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Yakov Yermolayevich Chadayev Яков Ермолаевич Чадаев
The Gosplan economist who co-signed wartime decrees with Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1985
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Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин
Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1995
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Pyotr Fyodorovich Krivonos Пётр Фёдорович Кривонос
The locomotive driver who carried productivity innovation onto the railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1980