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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the wider world
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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
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Vladimir Velebit Vladimir Velebit
Yugoslav partisan-diplomat whom Stalin named a British spy to break off correspondence
Diplomacy and international organization · Yugoslavia state institutions
1907–2004
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Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв
The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1908–1963
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Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin Георгий Максимович Пушкин
The Soviet diplomat who warned Khrushchev about Berlin
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1963
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Adam Rapacki Adam Rapacki
A diplomat who widened room for negotiation amid East-West tension
Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions
1909–1970
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko Андрей Андреевич Громыко
“Mister Nyet,” whose last move was to nominate the reformer
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1909–1989
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Lê Đức Thọ Lê Đức Thọ
Vietnamese Politburo member who negotiated the Paris Peace Accords with Kissinger and declined the Nobel Peace Prize
Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam state institutions
1911–1990
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Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов
Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1911–1992
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Pyotr Andreyevich Abrassimov Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов
The Soviet 'governing ambassador' who managed Cold War Berlin
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1912–2009
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Alexander Ivanovich Alexeyev Александр Иванович Алексеев
KGB officer turned first Soviet ambassador to Cuba who won Castro's trust and warned Khrushchev against the missile deployment
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1913–2001
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Stepan Vasilievich Chervonenko Степан Васильевич Червоненко
Soviet ambassador for 24 years across the Sino-Soviet split, Prague Spring, and détente
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1915–2003
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Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov Валентин Михайлович Бережков
Stalin's personal interpreter at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam who became the Soviet Union's leading Americanist
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1916–1998
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Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов
The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1918–1993
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Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemasov Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов
The last Soviet ambassador to watch the GDR dissolve
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1918–1998
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Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский
From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1919–2003
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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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Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов
Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–1997
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Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев
Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1921–2017
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Georgy Markovich Korniyenko Георгий Маркович Корниенко
Gromyko's point man on America who ran arms-control talks, opposed the Afghan invasion, and demanded truth over KAL 007
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1925–2006
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Valentin Mikhailovich Falin Валентин Михайлович Фалин
The Soviet Union's foremost Germany expert who opposed Gorbachev's concessions during reunification negotiations
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1926–2018
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Nguyễn Thị Bình Nguyễn Thị Bình
PRG foreign minister, the only woman to sign the Paris Peace Accords, and later vice president of Vietnam
Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam state institutions
1927–
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Viktor Pavlovich Karpov Виктор Павлович Карпов
The face of Soviet arms control diplomacy across SALT, INF, and START
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–1997
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Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze ედუარდ შევარდნაძე
The Soviet foreign minister who ended the Cold War, then led Georgia
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1928–2014
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Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов
The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1929–2007
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Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin Юрий Владимирович Дубинин
Soviet ambassador who personified perestroika diplomacy in Washington during the Gorbachev era
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1930–2013
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Boris Dmitrievich Pankin Борис Дмитриевич Панкин
The post-coup foreign minister of the collapsing Union
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1931–
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Alexander Alexandrovich Bessmertnykh Александр Александрович Бессмертных
The last regular Soviet foreign minister
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1933–
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Yuli Alexandrovich Kvitsinsky Юлий Александрович Квицинский
Gromyko protégé and arms negotiator remembered for the "Walk in the Woods"
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1936–2010
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Pavel Ruslanovich Palazhchenko Павел Русланович Палажченко
The interpreter who mediated summit diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions
1949–
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Paulo Jorge Paulo Teixeira Jorge
MPLA diplomat and Angola's second foreign minister, a leading figure of the party's left wing
Diplomacy and international organization · Angola state institutions
1934/1929–2010