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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 29 Government and administration 11 Legislature and state representation 4 Military command 106 Security, intelligence and policing 110 Diplomacy and international organization 19 Economy, finance and planning 24 Industry and production 43 Agriculture and land policy 4 Ideology and propaganda 16 Social movements and organizing 41 Scholarship and theory 9 Education 3 Science and technology 37 Literature and arts 14 Law and justice 11

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 379 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 345 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 5 Comintern 3 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Estonia state institutions 1

All 16 affiliations

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 1

Germany

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

International organizations

Comintern 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 5 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 345 Soviet Union state institutions 379

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 4 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 430

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 428 Germany 1 Russia 1

Background

Any Russia 304 Ukraine 34 Belarus 16 Georgia 14 Latvia 11 Poland 11 Armenia 10 Lithuania 7 Germany 5 Azerbaijan 4 Estonia 3 Turkey 2 Czechia 1 France 1 Hungary 1 Korea 1 Moldova 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 9 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 210 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 430 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 370 The last generation1985–1991 165

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 19 People of the Mao era1949–1976 25 The reform generation1976–현재 10

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 7 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 94 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 179 Scholars of this history1892–현재 6

Marxism and communism People of the Stalin era 1929–1953 Clear all

430 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Sergei Vasilyevich Kaftanov Сергей Васильевич Кафтанов The GKO science plenipotentiary who pressed Stalin to restart atomic bomb research Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1978
Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov Леонид Михайлович Неменов The physicist who built an atomic accelerator amid wartime siege Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1980
Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev Иван Иванович Ильичёв Wartime GRU chief who reported directly to Stalin, steering Soviet military intelligence through the Red Army's greatest victories Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1983
Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1983
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov Михаил Александрович Шолохов The Russian and Soviet novelist of And Quiet Flows the Don Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1984
Fyodor Tarasovich Gusev Фёдор Тарасович Гусев Soviet diplomat who shuttled between the Big Three wartime summits as Molotov's deputy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1987
Isaak Moiseyevich Zaltsman Исаак Моисеевич Зальцман The Tank King who built Tankograd Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1988
Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1991
Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov Леонид Романович Квасников The scientist-spy who stole the atomic bomb Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1905–1993
Alexander Samoylovich Khazan Александр Самойлович Хазан Released in 1938, shot in 1955 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1955
Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1955
Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1967
Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1968
Alexander Nikolayevich Komarovsky Александр Николаевич Комаровский The military engineer who built the Soviet atomic project Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1973
Iosif Vasilievich Shikin Иосиф Васильевич Шикин Zhdanov's GlavPUR chief who survived the Leningrad Affair: political commissar of the postwar Red Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1973
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1975
Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov Алексей Григорьевич Стаханов The miner whose 102-ton, 14x-norm shift ignited the defining mass productivity campaign of the Stalin era Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1977
Yakov Aleksandrovich Malik Яков Александрович Малик The Soviet UN diplomat who enabled Korean War intervention by boycott, and then proposed the armistice Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1980
Leonid Georgiyevich Melnikov Леонид Георгиевич Мельников First Secretary who ran the largest republican party in the USSR at the close of the Stalin era Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1981
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1982
Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov Олег Константинович Антонов From the An-2 to the An-225: the father of Soviet transport aviation Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1984
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev Александр Сергеевич Яковлев Father of the Yak fighter: the only aircraft designer Stalin personally summoned for advice Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1989
Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35 Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1995
Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov Александр Михайлович Пузанов The RSFSR premier who opposed the Crimea transfer and silently let Kim Il Sung consolidate one-man rule Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1906–1998
Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov Иван Иосифович Проскуров The GRU chief who warned Stalin of the German invasion, and was shot for it Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1941
Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky Иван Данилович Черняховский The youngest front commander in Red Army history: twice Hero of the Soviet Union, killed in East Prussia weeks before victory Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1945
Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov Михаил Иванович Родионов The RSFSR premier who turned wartime Gorky into an arsenal Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1907–1950
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 state institutions 1907–1955
Terentii Fomich Shtykov Терентий Фомич Штыков Soviet occupation chief in North Korea and first ambassador; he conveyed Kim Il Sung's unification plan to Stalin, brokered approval for war Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1964
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1907–1971
Sergei Matveyevich Shtemenko Сергей Матвеевич Штеменко The staff officer who designed Stalin's war plans and fell twice Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1976
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 state institutions 1907–1977
Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin Константин Петрович Горшенин The USSR's first Prosecutor General who organized war crimes trials and handed Khrushchev the statistics of the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1978
Konstantin Fyodorovich Lunev Константин Фёдорович Лунёв A party cadre elevated into the security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1980
Alexander Kharitonovich Busygin Александр Харитонович Бусыгин A Gorky auto-plant blacksmith who became a symbol of industrial productivity Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1985
Alexander Ivanovich Langfang Александр Иванович Лангфанг An interrogator convicted of falsifying cases and torturing prisoners Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1990
Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов Stalin’s spymaster who eliminated Trotsky, then spent fifteen years in Stalin’s prisons Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1996
Konstantin Antonovich Petrzhak Константин Антонович Петржак Co-discoverer of spontaneous fission, a pillar of the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1998
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Виктор Семёнович Абакумов Stalin's security chief who commanded SMERSH and ruled the MGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1954
Georgy Fyodorovich Alexandrov Георгий Фёдорович Александров Stalin's chief ideological supervisor, broken by a philosophy debate Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1961
Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1963
Lev Davidovich Landau Лев Давидович Ландау Soviet theoretical physics titan who founded the 'Landau school' and pioneered quantum fluid dynamics Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1968
Aleksei Mikhailovich Isaev Алексей Михайлович Исаев The engine designer who powered Soviet spacecraft: inventor of the closed-cycle rocket engine Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1971
Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov Борис Николаевич Черноусов The RSFSR premier who rose in the Leningrad Affair's wake and fell at the 19th Party Congress Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1978
Zhozef Yakovlevich Kotin Жозеф Яковлевич Котин Chief designer of the KV and IS heavy tanks, builder of Tankograd Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1979
Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin Исаак Константинович Кикоин Scientific director of uranium isotope separation for the Soviet atomic bomb Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1908–1984
Iosif Mikhailovich Turko Иосиф Михайлович Турко A Kuznetsov appointee to the Yaroslavl obkom who was sentenced to 15 years instead of death in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1994
Pavel Yakovlevich Meshik Павел Яковлевич Мешик Beria's inner circle and an organiser of the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1910–1953

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