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People

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

Mikhail Vasilyevich Khrunichev Михаил Васильевич Хруничев The aviation minister who persuaded Stalin to buy British jet engines and opened the MiG-15 era Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1961
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
Aleksei Semyonovich Zhadov Алексей Семёнович Жадов The commander Stalin made change his name, who led the 5th Guards Army from Stalingrad to Prague Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1977
Pavel Alekseyevich Rotmistrov Павел Алексеевич Ротмистров The Marshal of Armour who commanded history's largest tank battle at Prokhorovka Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1982
Mark Borisovich Mitin Марк Борисович Митин Stalin-era chief philosophical authority who installed dialectical materialism as state doctrine Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1987
Ivan Vladimirovich Kovalev Иван Владимирович Ковалёв The railway general who moved armies in secret, and fell over a pair of earrings Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1993
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
Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich Яков Владимирович Смушкевич A victorious air-force builder destroyed by the purges Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1941
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky Константин Александрович Уманский From TASS correspondent to youngest ambassador in Washington. The sharp, combative face of Stalin's wartime diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1945
Viktor Pavlovich Zhuravlev Виктор Павлович Журавлёв Author of the letter that brought Yezhov down Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1946
Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev Василий Васильевич Вахрушев The commissar who turned coal into a weapon Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1947
Nikita Alekseyevich Izotov Никита Алексеевич Изотов Pioneer of the Izotov movement (1932): mass on-the-job mentoring that became the template for Stakhanovism Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1951
Ivan Isidorovich Nosenko Иван Исидорович Носенко From shipyard messenger boy to master of Soviet shipbuilding Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1956
Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Malyshev Вячеслав Александрович Малышев Production boss from tanks to atomic industry Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1957
Markian Mikhailovich Popov Маркиан Михайлович Попов The most gifted front commander who never became a marshal Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1969
Filipp Yegorovich Mikheyev Филипп Егорович Михеев An administrator swept into the Leningrad purge Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1975
Pyotr Nikolayevich Goremykin Пётр Николаевич Горемыкин From ammunition to space: first head of the rocket ministry behind a deliberately vague name Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 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
Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov Иван Александрович Бенедиктов Long-serving agriculture administrator of late Stalinism and reconstruction Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1983
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
Gennady Ivanovich Smirnov Геннадий Иванович Смирнов Gosplan chief who vanished into the Terror in eight months Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1938
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
Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1950
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
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov Игорь Васильевич Курчатов Scientific head of the Soviet atomic bomb Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1960
Vasily Fyodorovich Popov Василий Фёдорович Попов The Gosbank chairman who executed postwar monetary reform over a decade Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1964
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
Alexander Alfredovich Bek Александр Альфредович Бек Author of Volokolamsk Highway, whose novel of Stalinist bureaucracy was banned until glasnost Literature and arts 1903–1972
Yuri Yevgenyevich Maksarev Юрий Евгеньевич Максарёв The industrial architect who mass-produced the T-34 and shaped Soviet tank power Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1982
Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov Николай Васильевич Новиков Soviet diplomat whose Novikov Telegram answered Kennan's Long Telegram, framing US policy as imperialist expansion Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1989
Zinaida Vasilyevna Yershova Зинаида Васильевна Ершова A radiochemist who helped build the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1995
Anatoly Antonovich Volin Анатолий Антонович Волин The Supreme Court chairman who purged judges and was removed for rehabilitation measures Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–2007
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov Валерий Павлович Чкалов Stalin's falcon who flew nonstop over the North Pole to America, and fell on his final test flight Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1938
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
Kuzma Nikolayevich Derevyanko Кузьма Николаевич Деревянко The Soviet general who signed Japan's surrender, ending World War II Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1954
Nikolai Leonidovich Dukhov Николай Леонидович Духов From KV and IS heavy tanks to nuclear warheads: the designer who anchored both pillars of the Soviet military-industrial complex Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1964
Vasily Alekseevich Makhnev Василий Алексеевич Махнёв An organiser of the secret atomic administration Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1965
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
Grigory Nikolayevich Safonov Григорий Николаевич Сафонов USSR Prosecutor General who served at Nuremberg and was removed for refusing to sanction Beria's arrest Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1972
Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov Николай Герасимович Кузнецов Architect of the Soviet Navy who ordered combat readiness hours before Barbarossa, twice demoted and posthumously restored Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1974
Aleksei Ivanovich Shakhurin Алексей Иванович Шахурин The commissar who directed wartime aviation and out-produced the Luftwaffe Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1975
Alexander Yevgeniyevich Golovanov Александр Евгеньевич Голованов Red Army's youngest marshal: Stalin's personal commander of strategic bomber aviation Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1975
Ivan Terentyevich Peresypkin Иван Терентьевич Пересыпкин The architect of communications at Stalingrad and Kursk: first Marshal of the Signal Troops Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1978
Mikhail Georgievich Pervukhin Михаил Георгиевич Первухин State commission chair for the first atomic bomb test, demoted in 1957 for opposing Khrushchev Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1978
Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov Александр Александрович Морозов The face of Soviet tank design: T-34, T-54/55, and T-64 Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1979
Boris Glebovich Muzrukov Борис Глебович Музруков The industrial commander who delivered tanks at Uralmash, plutonium at Mayak, and nuclear warheads at Arzamas-16 Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1979
Fyodor Fedotovich Kuznetsov Фёдор Федотович Кузнецов GRU to GlavPUR: the colonel general who led wartime intelligence and late Stalinist army political control Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1904–1979
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1904–1984

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