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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 382 Government and administration 92 Legislature and state representation 25 Military command 264 Security, intelligence and policing 193 Diplomacy and international organization 80 Economy, finance and planning 119 Industry and production 104 Agriculture and land policy 26 Ideology and propaganda 83 Social movements and organizing 238 Scholarship and theory 44 Education 10 Science and technology 126 Literature and arts 61 Law and justice 34

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 54 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 46 Comintern 15 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Vietnam state institutions 3 Angola state institutions 1 Czechoslovakia state institutions 1 Hungary state institutions 1

All 18 affiliations

Angola

Angola state institutions 1

China

People’s Republic of China state institutions 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 1

East Germany

East Germany state institutions 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 1

International organizations

Comintern 15

Italy

Italy state institutions 1

Poland

Poland state institutions 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 13 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 46 Soviet Union state institutions 54

Vietnam

Vietnam state institutions 3 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 1 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position(set)

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 5 Left critics of Bolshevism 3 Socialist-bloc reform leader 2 Dissident 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 6 Fascists and Nazis 4 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Marxism and communism 80 Liberalism and republicanism 7 Conservatism and Christian democracy 8 Monarchy and royalism 1 Nationalism 8

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 64 Vietnam 3 Bulgaria 2 China 2 Russia 2 Angola 1 Czechoslovakia 1 East Germany 1 Hungary 1 Italy 1 Poland 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 44 Poland 6 Belarus 5 Ukraine 4 Vietnam 3 Bulgaria 2 China 2 Lithuania 2 Angola 1 Armenia 1 Finland 1 Georgia 1 Germany 1 Hungary 1 Italy 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Latvia 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 17 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 19 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 17 The last generation1985–1991 11

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 2

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 4 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 10

Diplomacy and international organization Marxism and communism Clear all

80 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1871–1923
Fyodor Aronovich Rothstein Фёдор Аронович Ротштейн Bolshevik historian who became Soviet Russia's first ambassador to Persia after thirty years of exile in Britain Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1871–1953
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1936
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1872–1952
Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1874–1946
Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939 Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1876–1951
Vasil Petrov Kolarov Васил Петров Коларов Co-founder of Bulgarian communism, from the Comintern to head of state Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1877–1950
Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1878–1952
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1881–1964
Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1937
Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1938
Georgi Mihaylov Dimitrov Георги Михайлов Димитров From Leipzig defendant to Comintern General Secretary Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1949
Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1952
Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1882–1955
Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1927
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1883–1954
Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1884–1951
Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Иван Михайлович Майский From Menshevik to Soviet envoy to the British Empire: a convert and survivor who stood at the center of world-war diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1884–1975
Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1886–1967
Pyotr Lazarevich Voykov Пётр Лазаревич Войков Bolshevik diplomat who took part in the decision to execute Nicholas II: gunned down in Warsaw Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1888–1927
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan Лев Михайлович Карахан Author of the 1919 Karakhan Manifesto that renounced Tsarist unequal treaties with China Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1937
Arkady Pavlovich Rozengolts Аркадий Павлович Розенгольц Bolshevik who built the Soviet Air Force and ran foreign trade Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1938
Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1890–1938
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1986
Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1939
Grigory Naumovich Voitinsky Григорий Наумович Войтинский The Comintern's first envoy who midwifed the Chinese Communist Party Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1893–1953
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
Leon Yakovlevich Gaikis Леон Яковлевич Гайкис Second Soviet ambassador to Spain, recalled and shot barely three months after taking the post Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1898–1937
Kang Sheng 康生 Mao’s inquisitor who ran party security and intelligence from the Yan’an “rescue” campaign to the Cultural Revolution Security, intelligence and policing · People’s Republic of China state institutions 1898–1975
Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1900–1958
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif Павел Александрович Миф Comintern China specialist who cultivated the 28 Bolsheviks Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1901–1938
Chen Yi 陈毅 The poet-marshal who led the New Fourth Army and the Third Field Army and succeeded Zhou Enlai as foreign minister Diplomacy and international organization · People’s Republic of China state institutions 1901–1972
Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov Василий Васильевич Кузнецов Three-time interim head of state and Gromyko's First Deputy for 22 years Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1901–1990
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
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1902–1952
Mikhail Alexeyevich Menshikov Михаил Алексеевич Меньшиков Trade-and-diplomacy official sacked by Stalin over bananas, then returned as a Cold War ambassador under Khrushchev Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1976
Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin Валериан Александрович Зорин The Soviet Cold War diplomat who denied the Cuban missiles at the UN Security Council Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1902–1986
Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev Аркадий Александрович Соболев Soviet diplomat who co-drafted the UN Charter, the Soviet face at the UN through the early Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1903–1964
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
Anton Ackermann Anton Ackermann German communist who drafted the KPD’s 1945 appeal and argued for a “special German road to socialism” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1905–1973
Eugenio Reale Eugenio Reale Italian delegate at the Cominform founding who witnessed Stalin's telephone line, later turning from communist to anti-communist critic Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1905–1986
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
Hoàng Văn Hoan Hoàng Văn Hoan Pro-Chinese veteran, North Vietnam’s first ambassador to China, who defected to China after the 1979 war Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam state institutions 1905–1991
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
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

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