People of the Revolution and the USSR
Legislature and state representation
Marxism and communism
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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- Augusts Kirhenšteins Augusts Kirhenšteins Microbiologist who headed the puppet government chosen by the Soviet embassy in 1940 and requested Latvia’s incorporation into the USSR
- Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин The long-serving formal head of state
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism
- Johannes Vares Johannes Vares Poet and doctor whom Zhdanov forced on Estonia as puppet prime minister in June 1940, and who led the petition to join the Soviet Union