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Mikhail Fyodorovich Vladimirsky Михаил Фёдорович Владимирский Old Bolshevik who watched over the Party's books for a quarter-century Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1874–1951
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин “The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1878–1938
Matvei Fyodorovich Shkiryatov Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов The eraser poised over party rolls for thirty years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1954
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov Фёдор Васильевич Гладков Classic writer of socialist realism who pioneered the Soviet industrial novel with Cement Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1883–1958
Ivan Ivanovich Korotkov Иван Иванович Коротков From party control to the art museum: an icon-painter Bolshevik Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1885–1949
Sergei Mironovich Kirov Сергей Миронович Киров The Leningrad organizer whose murder became the pretext for the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1934
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev Павел Петрович Постышев Stalin's famine envoy and terror executor called the 'hangman of Ukraine', executed in 1939 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1887–1939
Moisei Iosifovich Kalmanovich Моисей Иосифович Калманович Revolutionary-turned-banker who led Gosbank through collectivization Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik Николай Михайлович Шверник Formal head of state in late Stalinism Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1888–1970
Stanislav Vikentyevich Kosior Станислав Викентьевич Косиор The Ukrainian party boss who denied the famine, felled by Stalin's bullet Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1939
Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1952
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1937
Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrebyshev Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев Stalin's shadow: secretary who filtered all information, drafted the 1936 Constitution & Short Course, ran the Special Sector for 25 years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1965
Karl Yanovich Bauman Карл Янович Бауман A party organiser who drove collectivisation forward Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1892–1937
Yakov Isaakovich Serebryansky Яков Исаакович Серебрянский Builder of Soviet covert ops who kidnapped a White general in Paris, then tortured by his own service Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1956
Mendel Markovich Khataevich Мендель Маркович Хатаевич The party secretary who warned Molotov that grain seizures would leave nobody to plant, shot four years later Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Yakov Saulovich Agranov Яков Саулович Агранов The Cheka’s architect of political investigations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1893–1938
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович 'Iron Lazar', Stalin's hard-line enforcer Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1991
Iosif Mikhailovich Vareikis Иосиф Михайлович Варейкис Regional party boss of collectivization and the Great Terror who heard Stalin ask why there were so many spies on his watch Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1894–1938
Boris Petrovich Sheboldaev Борис Петрович Шеболдаев Party master of the Azov-Black Sea krai, brought down on the eve of the Great Terror Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1937
Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev Андрей Андреевич Андреев The organization man who sat in the Politburo for 20 years, the CC secretary most often dispatched to purge the regions Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1971
Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1966
Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1951
Naum Isaakovich Eitingon Наум Исаакович Эйтингон The NKVD's master of covert action: from Trotsky's assassination to Soviet atomic espionage Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1981
Mikhail Ilyich Romm Михаил Ильич Ромм The director who built Lenin's screen myth for Stalin, then dissected fascism under the Thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1971
Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1976
Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov Василий Михайлович Андрианов A Stalin-era regional party boss who ran wartime Sverdlovsk, then rebuilt Leningrad after the Leningrad Affair purges Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1978
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко Stalin's trusted partisan chief who orchestrated the Rail War, pushed aside at the threshold of succession Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1984
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev Александр Васильевич Косарев The young Komsomol chief who carried out the Great Purge and was then consumed by it Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1939
Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov Пётр Сергеевич Попков Wartime steward of besieged Leningrad, first victim of the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1950
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1950
Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1982
Nikolai Nikolayevich Shatalin Николай Николаевич Шаталин Malenkov's cadres chief: party organizer who oversaw the security organs after Stalin's death, then sidelined by Khrushchev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1904–1984
Alexei Alexandrovich Kuznetsov Алексей Александрович Кузнецов Postwar No. 2 in the Party Secretariat, purged in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1950
Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1967
Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1968
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1975
Iosif Mikhailovich Turko Иосиф Михайлович Турко A Kuznetsov appointee to the Yaroslavl obkom who was sentenced to 15 years instead of death in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1994
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц The radio voice of the besieged city Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1975