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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

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 264 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 243 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 21 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Comintern 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1

All 9 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 21 United Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 243 Soviet Union state institutions 264

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 4 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 304

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 324 Russia 3 United States 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 328 Ukraine 34 Belarus 18 Georgia 15 Latvia 11 Poland 11 Armenia 10 Lithuania 7 Germany 5 Azerbaijan 4 Estonia 3 Turkey 2 Czechia 1 France 1 Hungary 1 Japan 1 Korea 1 Moldova 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 130 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 188 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 328 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 306 The last generation1985–1991 131

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 9 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2 Scholars of this history1892–현재 34

Background: Russia People of the Stalin era 1929–1953 Clear all

328 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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
Viktor Ivanovich Maltsev Виктор Иванович Мальцев Soviet Air Force colonel turned ROA Air Force commander, builder of the Vlasov movement's air arm Military command 1895–1946
Peretz Davidovich Markish Перец Давидович Маркиш A radical lyrical voice of Soviet Yiddish literature Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1952
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
Nikolai Pavlovich Pukhov Николай Павлович Пухов The seminary-trained instructor who drove the 13th Army into the heart of Europe Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1958
Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко Soviet judge at the Nuremberg IMT, death-sentence arbiter of the Great Purge Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1967
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
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Игорь Евгеньевич Тамм From the H-bomb to the tokamak: theoretical physicist of two nuclear ages Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1971
Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev Иван Степанович Юмашев Pacific Fleet commander of Operation August Storm, the admiral Stalin dismissed as 'not a minister' Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1972
Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov Иван Сергеевич Хохлов The weaver who became wartime premier of the Russian republic Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1973
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin Михаил Михайлович Бахтин Philosopher of dialogue and carnival, returned after thirty years of oblivion Scholarship and theory 1895–1975
Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov Михаил Степанович Шумилов Commander of the 64th Army: Stalingrad's southern shield for six months Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1975
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky Александр Михайлович Василевский The seminarian-turned-staff-officer who designed Uranus Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1895–1977
Aleksei Ivanovich Stetsky Алексей Иванович Стецкий Propaganda chief who moved from Bukharin's 'red professor' circle to Stalin's side Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1938
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
Andrei Ivanovich Zelentsov Андрей Иванович Зеленцов A division commander caught between encirclement and higher command Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1941
Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin Фёдор Иванович Трухин A staff general who turned from Soviet command to an anti-Soviet armed organisation Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1946
Yakov Nikolayevich Fedorenko Яков Николаевич Федоренко First Marshal of Armored Troops who led the Red Army's tank forces through the entire war Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1947
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1948
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
Ivan Alekseyevich Likhachev Иван Алексеевич Лихачёв Father of the Soviet auto industry, the 'red director' who told Henry Ford he was a servant of the people Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1956
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov Иван Ефимович Петров The army general who held Odessa and Sevastopol, and returned to command every time Stalin sacked him Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1958
Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov Алексей Иннокентьевич Антонов The architect of every major Soviet operation from 1943 onward: the only Order of Victory holder who was not a marshal Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1962
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
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov Георгий Константинович Жуков Stalin's Marshal of Victory, twice demoted for his own fame Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1974
Mikhail Semyonovich Khozin Михаил Семёнович Хозин Soviet Colonel General who led Leningrad through the first blockade winter, then lost the 2nd Shock Army and his command Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1979
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov Николай Николаевич Семёнов The only Soviet Nobel laureate in Chemistry, founder of chain reaction theory Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1896–1986
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
Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов The general who built Soviet tank forces and became their first scapegoat Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1941
Georgy Alexandrovich Astakhov Георгий Александрович Астахов The Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin who opened the secret channel to the Nazi-Soviet pact Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1942
Mikhail Gr. Grigoryevich Yefremov Михаил Григорьевич Ефремов Commander of the 33rd Army at Moscow, encircled at Vyazma and shot himself when Stalin denied retreat Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1942
Vasily Timofeyevich Volsky Василий Тимофеевич Вольский Soviet tank army commander who wrote to Stalin warning Operation Uranus would fail Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1946
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov Леонид Александрович Говоров From Kolchak's White Army to Marshal of the USSR who broke the 900-day siege of Leningrad Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1955
Georgy Fedorovich Zakharov Георгий Фёдорович Захаров Peasant-born Army General who led the 2nd Belorussian Front and was demoted after Bagration Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1957
Nikolai Mikhailovich Rychkov Николай Михайлович Рычков The justice commissar without a law degree who ran Soviet courts for a decade, from the Great Terror through the war-crimes trials Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1959
Vladimir Viktorovich Kryukov Владимир Викторович Крюков Hero of the Guards cavalry corps, brought down by the Trophy Case, rehabilitated in the Thaw Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1959
Miron Semyonovich Vovsi Мирон Семёнович Вовси Red Army chief internist who built Soviet wartime field therapy, and the lead defendant in the Doctors' Plot Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1960
Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков The marshal who survived NKVD torture to break the Leningrad blockade Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1968
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina Полина Семёновна Жемчужина The first woman to head a Soviet industrial ministry, Molotov's wife, caught between Kremlin power and Jewish identity Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1970
Ivan Stepanovich Konev Иван Степанович Конев The marshal who made encirclement an art, and became a political soldier in peacetime Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1973
Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky Кузьма Никитович Галицкий Army general who survived the Purge and took Königsberg Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1973
Pavel Ivanovich Batov Павел Иванович Батов Master of river crossings who led the 65th Army from Stalingrad to the capture of Stettin Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1985
Semyon Zakharovich Ginzburg Семён Захарович Гинзбург First People's Commissar for Construction, who built wartime industry from the ground up Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1897–1993

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