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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв
He opened the coffin lid, and became the first leader to die in bed
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1894–1971
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин
The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1975
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan Анастас Иванович Микоян
The man who built the Soviet table, and the negotiator “from Ilyich to Ilyich”
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1978
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Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова
Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1957
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Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов
The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1979
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Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов
An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1898–1989
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Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov Николай Григорьевич Игнатов
The man who saved Khrushchev and then helped destroy him
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1966
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Organov Николай Николаевич Органов
RSFSR formal head of state who once sat on an NKVD execution troika
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1982
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Olga Grigoryevna Shatunovskaya Ольга Григорьевна Шатуновская
Khrushchev's chief investigator who traced Stalin's crimes to the end
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1901–1990
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Zhumabay Shayakhmetovich Shayakhmetov Жумабай Шаяхметович Шаяхметов
Kazakh SSR figure who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1902–1966
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Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов
The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1902–1982
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Antanas Juozovich Sniečkus Antanas Sniečkus
The communist who ruled Soviet Lithuania for 34 years
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1903–1974
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Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Николай Викторович Подгорный
Head of state in the Brezhnev-Kosygin collective leadership
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1903–1983
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Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов
Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them”
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1995
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov Николай Александрович Тихонов
The conservative premier of late Brezhnevism
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1905–1997
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Johannes Gustavovich Käbin Иван Густавович Кэбин
A pragmatic national communist who navigated between Moscow and Estonia for 28 years
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1905–1999
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев
The man whose statecraft was not rocking the boat
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1906–1982
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Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov Дмитрий Фёдорович Устинов
The defence-industry man who became defence minister
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1984
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Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev Николай Семёнович Патоличев
The man who ran Soviet foreign trade for 27 years, holder of eleven Orders of Lenin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1989
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Petro Yefimovich Shelest Пётр Ефимович Шелест
The republic first secretary removed for investing in Ukrainian culture
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1908–1996
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Gennady Ivanovich Voronov Геннадий Иванович Воронов
The RSFSR premier who never stopped speaking bluntly to Brezhnev
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1910–1994
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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Константин Устинович Черненко
The last General Secretary of the Brezhnev order
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1985
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Aleksei Pavlovich Shitikov Алексей Павлович Шитиков
From Khabarovsk party boss to Chairman of the Soviet of the Union: the institutional face of federal legislation in the Brezhnev era
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1993
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Dinmukhamed Akhmetuly Kunaev Дінмұхамед Ахметұлы Қонаев
The republic-builder who led Kazakhstan for 24 years as Brezhnev's partner, whose dismissal sparked the Zheltoksan uprising
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1912–1993
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Jabbor Rasulovich Rasulov Джабар Расулович Расулов
Agronomist who led Tajikistan for 21 years, a communist of ascetic modesty and incorruptibility
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1913–1982
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev Михаил Сергеевич Соломенцев
Brezhnev-era industrial technocrat who ran the Russian republic for 12 years
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1913–2008
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Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov Юрий Владимирович Андропов
The paradox: a reformer’s patron inside the KGB
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1914–1984
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Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov Кирилл Трофимович Мазуров
Belarusian partisan leader who rose to Brezhnev's Politburo and served as USSR First Deputy Premier for thirteen years
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1914–1989
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Augusts Eduardovich Voss Augusts Voss
Latvian party boss turned Soviet of Nationalities chairman
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1916–1994
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Sharaf Rashidovich Rashidov Шараф Рашидович Рашидов
Writer turned leader who drove Uzbekistan's industrialization and cultural revival for 24 years, later tied to the Cotton Affair
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1917–1983
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Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselyov Тихон Яковлевич Киселёв
Belarus's premier for nearly 20 years who rose to First Secretary and candidate Politburo member, then died of cancer two years later
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1917–1983
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Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky Дмитрий Степанович Полянский
Brezhnev-era official across agriculture and government
Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions
1917–2001
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Pyotr Mironovich Masherov Пётр Миронович Машеров
Belarus's partisan-hero leader for 15 years who transformed an agrarian republic into an industrial powerhouse - his death a legend
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1918–1980
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Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky Владимир Васильевич Щербицкий
The Brezhnev-era republic-builder who led Ukraine for 17 years, linchpin of the Dnepr clan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1918–1990
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Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин
The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions
1918–1994
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Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul Иван Иванович Бодюл
The republic first secretary who ruled Moldavia for nearly 20 years as Brezhnev's close ally
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1918–2013
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Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин
The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2010
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Turdakun Usubalievich Usubaliev Турдакун Усубалиевич Усубалиев
The builder who transformed Kirghizia from an agrarian to an industrial republic across the Khrushchev-Brezhnev era
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1919–2015
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Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков
Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree
Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions
1920–1996
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев
Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1921–1982
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Muhammetnazar Gapurovich Gapurov Мухамедназар Гапурович Гапуров
16-year leader of Brezhnev-era Turkmenistan who integrated its cotton and gas economy into the Soviet center
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1922–1999
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Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev
The KGB general who rose from Baku to the Kremlin and founded independent Azerbaijan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1923–2003
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky Фёдор Михайлович Бурлацкий
Architect of Khrushchev's reforms and pioneer of Soviet political science
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1927–2014
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Alexander Yevgenyevich Bovin Александр Евгеньевич Бовин
Brezhnev's foreign-affairs speechwriter who put détente into prose, then became its sharpest television commentator
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1930–2004
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Boris Sarkisovich Kevorkov Բորիս Սարգսի Կևորկով
The Armenian party functionary who enforced Baku's control over Nagorno-Karabakh
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1932–1998
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Karen Serobovich Demirchyan Карен Серобович Демирчян
Modernized Soviet Armenia over 14 years, sacked for siding with Karabakh, returned and assassinated in parliament
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions
1932–1999