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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 21 Government and administration 6 Legislature and state representation 2 Military command 81 Security, intelligence and policing 63 Diplomacy and international organization 12 Economy, finance and planning 19 Industry and production 35 Agriculture and land policy 3 Ideology and propaganda 13 Social movements and organizing 33 Scholarship and theory 10 Education 2 Science and technology 30 Literature and arts 21 Law and justice 9

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 62 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 45 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

All 3 affiliations

Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 45 Soviet Union state institutions 62

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Marxism and communism 62

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 62 Russia 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 63 Ukraine 13 Georgia 11 Belarus 8 Poland 4 Lithuania 3 Armenia 2 Estonia 1 France 1 Germany 1 Korea 1 Latvia 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 13 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 63 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 21 The last generation1985–1991 7

Security, intelligence and policing Background: Russia People of the Stalin era 1929–1953 Clear all

63 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1938
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1960
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1937
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1939
Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1939
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda Генрих Григорьевич Ягода The NKVD chief who expanded the Gulag and became a purge defendant Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1938
Yefim Georgiyevich Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов Architect of the Shakhty case and boss of the North Caucasus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1940
Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Karl Viktorovich Pauker Карл Викторович Паукер The operations chief who guarded Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1937
Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin Николай Владимирович Скоблин A White general turned clandestine Soviet collaborator Security, intelligence and policing 1893–1937/1938?
Sergei Naumovich Mironov Сергей Наумович Миронов The 'North Caucasian' Chekist who opened the mass operations in West Siberia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1940
Vasily Mikhailovich Zarubin Василий Михайлович Зарубин The NKVD rezident who ran a Gestapo mole and coordinated Soviet atomic espionage in America Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1894–1972
Georgy Yevgenyevich Prokofiev Георгий Евгеньевич Прокофьев The deputy commissar who manufactured the wrecking cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1937
Pavel Petrovich Bulanov Павел Петрович Буланов Yagoda's secretary who staged the Moscow trials and became a defendant himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1938
Izrail Yakovlevich Dagin Израиль Яковлевич Дагин From North Caucasus NKVD chief to government protection head, an executor of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov Николай Иванович Ежов The Bloody Dwarf, an executor of the Great Terror shaped by the party personnel apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Zinovy Markovich Ushakov Зиновий Маркович Ушаков The interrogator who beat a confession out of Tukhachevsky, and spoke of beating only once it was his turn Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1940
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов The NKGB chief named first in the Katyn order, who wrote plays under a pseudonym Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1953
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin Василий Михайлович Блохин The executioner who served twenty-seven years under three chiefs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1955
Semyon Borisovich Zhukovsky Семён Борисович Жуковский The trade official who became a deputy commissar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1940
Vasily Fyodorovich Dementiev Василий Фёдорович Дементьев A 'North Caucasian' Chekist moved from Chechnya to Primorye Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1940
Vasily Vasilyevich Chernyshev Василий Васильевич Чернышёв The only Yezhov deputy to survive, who ran the GULAG as Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1952
Georgy Andreyevich Molchanov Георгий Андреевич Молчанов Yagoda's chief of the Secret Political Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1937
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kursky Владимир Михайлович Курский The 'North Caucasian' deputy commissar who shot himself at the peak of his career Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1937
Nikolai Kuzmich Kruchinkin Николай Кузьмич Кручинкин Divisional commander who headed the NKVD border and internal troops and was shot Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1938
Aleksey Alekseyevich Nasedkin Алексей Алексеевич Наседкин Smolensk NKVD chief who fabricated the 'Latvian National Centre' case and launched the Latvian operation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1940
Sergei Mikhailovich Shpigelglas Сергей Михайлович Шпигельглас Architect of NKVD foreign operations during the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1940
Abram Aronovich Slutsky Абрам Аронович Слуцкий The last of Yagoda's department heads, and chief of foreign intelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1938
Yakov Abramovich Deych Яков Абрамович Дейч Yezhov's head of secretariat who went on to sit on the Rostov troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1938
Matvei Davydovich Berman Матвей Давыдович Берман The longest-serving chief who built up the Gulag Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1939
Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev Иван Александрович Мальцев A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1940
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky Михаил Петрович Фриновский Yezhov’s iron deputy Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1940
Vasily Abramovich Karutsky Василий Абрамович Каруцкий NKVD chief who sat on a mass-operation troika and killed himself before his arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1938
Ivan Yakovlevich Lavrushin Иван Яковлевич Лаврушин NKVD chief who chaired the Gorky oblast troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1940
Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov Иван Иванович Масленников From NKVD Deputy Commissar to General of the Army: the rare commander who held senior rank in both the security apparatus and the Red Army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1954
Pyotr Vasilyevich Fedotov Пётр Васильевич Федотов 38-year Chekist who commanded both counterintelligence and foreign intelligence from Cheka to KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1963
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov Сергей Иванович Огольцов An operative who spanned every iteration of Soviet state security across 35 years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1976
Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1939
Dmitry Matveyevich Dmitriev Дмитрий Матвеевич Дмитриев The Sverdlovsk NKVD chief whose testimony first unspooled the 'NKVD conspiracy' Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1939
Nikolai Nikolayevich Selivanovsky Николай Николаевич Селивановский The counterintelligence officer who bypassed the chain of command and telegraphed Stalin to replace Stalingrad's commander Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1997
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky Александр Иванович Успенский The Ukrainian NKVD chief who faked his suicide and ran Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1940
Viktor Pavlovich Zhuravlev Виктор Павлович Журавлёв Author of the letter that brought Yezhov down Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1946
Sergei Romanovich Savchenko Сергей Романович Савченко The state security chief who dismantled the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by force, then ran Soviet foreign intelligence in late Stalinism Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1966
Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1940
Viktor Grigorievich Nasedkin Виктор Григорьевич Наседкин The camp empire's administrator who ran the GULAG through the Great Patriotic War Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1950
Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский Head of the unit for especially important cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1953
Anatoly Alexandrovich Esaulov Анатолий Александрович Эсаулов The interrogator of Yezhov: the hand that kept the record as the machine devoured its own master Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1954
Boris Rodos Борис Вениаминович Родос The Great Purge's chief interrogator: NKVD Investigation Deputy Chief who broke Politburo members, generals, and writers Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1956
Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin Александр Семёнович Панюшкин Soviet foreign intelligence chief who directed operations under ambassadorial cover in China and the United States Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1974
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1993

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