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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
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov Евгений Петрович Петров Co-author with Ilf of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured NEP-era Soviet life and later edited Ogonyok magazine Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1942
Nikolai Alekseyevich Zabolotsky Николай Алексеевич Заболоцкий Avant-garde co-founder of OBERIU who emerged from the Gulag as a master of classical lyricism Literature and arts 1903–1958
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
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1936
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman Василий Семёнович Гроссман The writer of war's front line and totalitarianism's mirror Literature and arts 1905–1964
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
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
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
Karl Ilitch Eliasberg Карл Ильич Элиасберг The conductor who rebuilt an orchestra under siege Literature and arts 1907–1978
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov Варлам Тихонович Шаламов The writer who testified to Kolyma through prose Literature and arts 1907–1982
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky Александр Трифонович Твардовский Novy Mir editor who opened the Thaw and national poet of Vasili Tyorkin Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1971
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц The radio voice of the besieged city Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1975
Georgy Mokeevich Markov Георгий Мокеевич Марков The Brezhnev-era literary gatekeeper who celebrated Siberia while enforcing official aesthetics as head of the Writers' Union for 15 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1911–1991
Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков The writer whose banned novel became the emblem of glasnost Literature and arts 1911–1998
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov Тихон Николаевич Хренников Gatekeeper of Soviet music for 43 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1913–2007
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov Сергей Владимирович Михалков The poet who wrote the anthem for Stalin, Brezhnev, and Putin Literature and arts · Soviet Union 1913–2009
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov Константин Михайлович Симонов The poet of 'Wait for Me': six-time Stalin Prize-winning war correspondent and literary bureaucrat Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1915–1979
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Александр Исаевич Солженицын Prisoner Shch-854, who told the world about the Archipelago Literature and arts 1918–2008
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky Андрей Донатович Синявский Abram Tertz, from Novy Mir critic to symbol of the Soviet dissident movement Literature and arts 1925–1997
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева Stalin's only daughter and the Kremlin's first insider witness to defect to the West Literature and arts 1926–2011
Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev Егор Владимирович Яковлев Editor of Moscow News who led the charge in breaking Soviet taboos during the glasnost era Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1930–2005
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kosygin Владимир Владимирович Косыгин First professional Koryak writer and USSR People's Deputy Literature and arts 1933–2012
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Евгений Александрович Евтушенко A poet in Russia is more than a poet: the stadium-filling voice of the Thaw and its contradictions Literature and arts 1933–2017
Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik Андрей Алексеевич Амальрик Historian and playwright who foresaw the Soviet collapse by 1984 Literature and arts 1938–1980
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий The voice the state silenced, but a million tapes couldn't Literature and arts 1938–1980
Aleksei Polyansky Алексей Полянский The KGB-veteran writer who published Yezhov's case file wrapped in novelistic reconstruction Literature and arts 1947–1998
Ilya Maratovich Krichevsky Илья Маратович Кричевский The architect and poet shot dead rushing a BMP as the troops pulled back, the last of the coup's three martyrs Literature and arts 1963–1991

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