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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 628 Government and administration 304 Legislature and state representation 70 Monarchs and royalty 24 Military command 520 Security, intelligence and policing 232 Diplomacy and international organization 163 Economy, finance and planning 147 Industry and production 110 Agriculture and land policy 36 Ideology and propaganda 103 Social movements and organizing 374 Scholarship and theory 278 Education 17 Science and technology 146 Literature and arts 141 Religion 20 Law and justice 55

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 54 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 47 United States state institutionsstate 19 Comintern 18 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 14 Hungarystate 10 United Kingdom state institutionsstate 6 Japan state institutionsstate 5

All 46 affiliations

Albania

Albaniastate 1

Angola

Angolastate 1

Austria

Austria state institutionsstate 2

Belarus

Belarus state institutionsstate 4

China

Kuomintang 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 4 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

Finland

Finland state institutionsstate 3 National Progressive Party (Finland) 1

France

France state institutionsstate 3 French monarchystate 1

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 10 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 1

International organizations

Comintern 18 United Nations 2

Italy

Italy state institutionsstate 4

Japan

Japan state institutionsstate 5

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 2

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Russia

Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 14 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

South Africa

South Africa state institutionsstate 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 47 Soviet Unionstate 54

Switzerland

Switzerland state institutionsstate 1

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 6

United States

United States state institutionsstate 19 American Relief Administration (ARA) 1 Democratic Party (United States) 3 Republican Party (United States) 4

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 3 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

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

Position

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 66 United States 20 Hungary 10 United Kingdom 6 France 5 Japan 5 Belarus 4 Czechoslovakia 4 Italy 4 China 3 Finland 3 Germany 3 Poland 3 Vietnam 3 Austria 2 Bulgaria 2 Latvia 2 Russia 2 Turkey 2 Albania 1 Angola 1 Armenia 1 Belgium 1 East Germany 1 Ecuador 1 Georgia 1 Lithuania 1 Myanmar 1 Romania 1 South Africa 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 44 United States 18 Poland 10 Belarus 9 Hungary 8 France 5 Germany 5 Japan 5 United Kingdom 5 Finland 4 Italy 4 Ukraine 4 China 3 Georgia 3 Latvia 3 Lithuania 3 Vietnam 3 Armenia 2 Austria 2 Bulgaria 2 Czechia 2 Serbia 2 Albania 1 Angola 1 Belgium 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Ireland 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 Moldova 1 Myanmar 1 Slovakia 1 South Africa 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The revolutionary generation1917–1940 18 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 20 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 17 The last generation1985–1991 11

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 1 People of the Mao era1949–1976 2

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 55 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 37

Diplomacy and international organization

163 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

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 1902–1986
Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano A Fascist diplomat who became a witness to the regime's internal collapse Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1903–1944
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 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 1903–1989
Llewellyn E. Thompson Llewellyn Thompson The US Ambassador to Moscow who knew Khrushchev personally and, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, told Kennedy to ignore the second letter Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1972
Charles E. Eustis Bohlen Charles E. Bohlen The State Department Soviet expert who turned Kennan's and Clayton's policy memos into Marshall's Harvard speech Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1974
Edmund Veesenmayer Edmund Veesenmayer SS diplomat who, as Reich plenipotentiary in Hungary in 1944, pressed the Hungarian government to deport its Jews to Auschwitz Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions 1904–1977
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 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 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 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 1906–1998
Ernest Gross Ernest A. Gross An international lawyer who worked the UN’s procedures Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1906–1999
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 1907–1964
Jean Sainteny Jean Sainteny French resistance veteran and official who concluded the 6 March 1946 preliminary agreement with Ho Chi Minh Diplomacy and international organization · France state institutions 1907–1978
Vladimir Velebit Vladimir Velebit Yugoslav partisan-diplomat whom Stalin named a British spy to break off correspondence Diplomacy and international organization · Yugoslavia 1907–2004
Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Kiselyov Евгений Дмитриевич Киселёв The Soviet envoy in Budapest who distrusted Rákosi Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1908–1963
Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin Георгий Максимович Пушкин The Soviet diplomat who warned Khrushchev about Berlin Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1909–1963
Adam Rapacki Adam Rapacki A diplomat who widened room for negotiation amid East-West tension Diplomacy and international organization · Poland 1909–1970
U Thant ဦးသန့် The quiet diplomat who mediated a superpower nuclear standoff Diplomacy and international organization · United Nations 1909–1974
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko Андрей Андреевич Громыко “Mister Nyet,” whose last move was to nominate the reformer Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1909–1989
Dean Rusk Dean Rusk A Cold War diplomat who built containment through international coalitions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
George Ball George Ball The Under Secretary who stopped an airstrike on Cuba with the Pearl Harbor analogy, then alone opposed escalation in Vietnam Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
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 1911–1990
Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1911–1992
Pyotr Andreyevich Abrassimov Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов The Soviet 'governing ambassador' who managed Cold War Berlin Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1912–2009
Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg Swedish diplomat who sheltered Budapest Jews with protective passports and safe houses, then vanished in Soviet custody Diplomacy and international organization 1912–?
Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1913–1993
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 1913–2001
Gerard Smith Gerard C. Smith A negotiator of the nuclear age Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1914–1994
Thomas Brimelow Thomas Brimelow A practical architect of nuclear diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1915–1995
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 1915–2003
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 1916–1998
Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1918–1993
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemasov Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов The last Soviet ambassador to watch the GDR dissolve Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1918–1998
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 1919–2003
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 1919–2010
Walter Stoessel Walter Stoessel A career diplomat who worked the front lines of détente Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–1986
George Pratt Shultz George Shultz The Secretary of State who pushed Reagan toward dialogue with Gorbachev and helped end the Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–2021
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 1921–1997
Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1921–2017
Henry Alfred Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger The architect of détente who used 'linkage' to build the first framework for superpower arms control, the face of American realism Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1923–2023
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 1925–2006
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 1926–2018
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 1927–
Viktor Pavlovich Karpov Виктор Павлович Карпов The face of Soviet arms control diplomacy across SALT, INF, and START Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1928–1997
Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze ედუარდ შევარდნაძე The Soviet foreign minister who ended the Cold War, then led Georgia Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1928–2014
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński Carter's National Security Advisor who drew the Soviet Union into the Afghan trap Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1928–2017
Jack Foust Matlock Jack Matlock Reagan's NSC Soviet expert who assembled the 'Soviet 101' briefing papers and the last US ambassador to the USSR Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1929–

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