People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle Евгений Викторович Тарле Historian of Napoleon who won world renown, survived Academic Case exile, and returned under Stalin's personal protection
- Alexander Andreyevich Svechin Александр Андреевич Свечин “The Russian Clausewitz”. Theorist of strategy and operational art
- Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky Емельян Михайлович Ярославский The Party's Chief Atheist, Called 'the Soviet Priest'
- Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky Владимир Викторович Адоратский IMEL director and the first Marxist philosopher to publicly anoint Stalin as a theorist
- Dmitry Ivanovich Shcherbakov Дмитрий Иванович Щербаков A geologist who helped design the Soviet uranium search
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin Михаил Михайлович Бахтин Philosopher of dialogue and carnival, returned after thirty years of oblivion
- Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism
- Isai Izrailevich Gurevich Исай Израилевич Гуревич A nuclear theorist who made reactor design possible
- Leonid Moiseyevich Sabsovich Леонид Моисеевич Сабсович The economist who blueprinted Stalin's accelerated industrialization, standard-bearer of the 'socialist city' Urbanists