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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 33 Government and administration 11 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 110 Security, intelligence and policing 111 Diplomacy and international organization 20 Economy, finance and planning 24 Industry and production 43 Agriculture and land policy 5 Ideology and propaganda 16 Social movements and organizing 41 Scholarship and theory 13 Education 3 Science and technology 40 Literature and arts 26 Law and justice 12

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 110 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 84 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

All 10 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1

Russia

General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 84 Soviet Unionstate 110

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Marxism and communism 110

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 110 Russia 1

Background

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 24 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 111 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 26 The last generation1985–1991 10

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 3

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 24 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 26

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

111 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Matvei Davydovich Berman Матвей Давыдович Берман The longest-serving chief who built up the Gulag Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1939
Ivan Aleksandrovich Maltsev Иван Александрович Мальцев A state-security administrator who commanded regional apparatuses Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Ivan Petrovich Popashenko Иван Петрович Попашенко A 'North Caucasian' Chekist who sat on the mass-operation troika in Kuibyshev Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky Михаил Петрович Фриновский Yezhov’s iron deputy Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1940
Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов He staged Lithuania's annexation and took the declaration of war in Berlin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1898–1953
Ignace Stanislavovich Reiss Игнатий Станиславович Рейсс Soviet illegal who broke publicly with Stalin and was murdered by the NKVD Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1937
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky Вальтер Германович Кривицкий The defector who first told the West how Stalin's secret service worked Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1941
Boris Arkadyevich Yartsev Борис Аркадьевич Рыбкин Risky diplomacy conducted behind an intelligence officer’s cover Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1947
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1953
Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1955
Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн The transport chief who assembled the deportation trains Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1955
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
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 1900–1938
Ivan Yakovlevich Lavrushin Иван Яковлевич Лаврушин NKVD chief who chaired the Gorky oblast troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 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 1900–1954
Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava Лаврентий Фомич Цанава "Second Lavrentiy"; Beria's man who ran the Mikhoels killing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1955
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 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 1900–1976
Boris Davydovich Berman Борис Давыдович Берман The intelligence officer who directed the Great Purge in Belorussia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 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 1901–1939
Sergo Arsenievich Goglidze Сергей Арсеньевич Гоглидзе From running the terror in Georgia to overlord of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1901–1953
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 1901–1997
Alexander Ivanovich Uspensky Александр Иванович Успенский The Ukrainian NKVD chief who faked his suicide and ran Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1940
Viktor Pavlovich Zhuravlev Виктор Павлович Журавлёв Author of the letter that brought Yezhov down Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1946
Grigory Teofilovich Karanadze Григорий Теофилович Каранадзе The Georgian interior minister who survived the purge Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1970
Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1976
Mikhail Pavlovich Shreyder Михаил Павлович Шрейдер Insider chronicler of the NKVD during the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1902–1978
Timofei Amvrosievich Strokach Тимофей Амвросиевич Строкач The Ukrainian MVD chief whose warning to Khrushchev, after Beria threatened to make him 'camp dust,' triggered Beria's arrest Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1903–1963
Sardion Nikolayevich Nadaraya Сардион Николаевич Надарая Beria's bodyguard chief, formerly of the internal prison Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1903–1982
Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov Богдан Захарович Кобулов Beria's closest deputy, executor of Katyn and the mass deportations Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1953
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 1904–1966
Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev Семён Денисович Игнатьев The last MGB minister of Stalin’s final years Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1983
Vasily Stepanovich Ryasnoy Василий Степанович Рясной NKVD chief who directed the suppression of Ukraine's nationalist insurgency Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1904–1995
Zalman Isaevich Passov Зельман Исаевич Пассов Foreign intelligence chief who led the Polish Operation mass arrests Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 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 1905–1950
Lev Yemelyanovich Vlodzimirsky Лев Емельянович Влодзимирский Head of the unit for especially important cases Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 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 1905–1954
Konstantin Sergeyevich Savitsky Константин Сергеевич Савицкий Kobulov's personal secretary, condemned in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1955
Nikolai Maksimovich Rukhadze Николай Максимович Рухадзе He drove the Mingrelian affair and then fell himself Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1955
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 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 1905–1974
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1905–1993
Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан Released in 1938, shot in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1906–1955
Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartsman Лев Леонидович (Аронович) Шварцман MGB's most brutal interrogator, killer of Blyukher, Babel, and Meyerhold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1955
Vladimir Nikolaevich Sukhodolsky Владимир Николаевич Суходольский NKVD major-general who led Tula's wartime defence and fell from grace Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1966
Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin Павел Михайлович Фитин The man who rebuilt foreign intelligence from the wreckage of the Yezhovshchina and stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1971
Sergey Nikiforovich Kruglov Сергей Никифорович Круглов The last NKVD People's Commissar, the longest-serving MVD minister, killed by a train Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1977
Konstantin Fyodorovich Lunev Константин Фёдорович Лунёв A party cadre elevated into the security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1980
Alexander Ivanovich Langfang Александр Иванович Лангфанг An interrogator convicted of falsifying cases and torturing prisoners Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1907–1990

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