People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov Юлий Михайлович Воронцов The arms-control negotiator who secured the INF Treaty and managed the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
- James Baker James Baker The pragmatic diplomat who engineered the Cold War's final transition
- Yuri Vladimirovich Dubinin Юрий Владимирович Дубинин Soviet ambassador who personified perestroika diplomacy in Washington during the Gorbachev era
- Boris Dmitrievich Pankin Борис Дмитриевич Панкин The post-coup foreign minister of the collapsing Union
- Gyula Horn Horn Gyula Hungarian foreign minister who cut the Iron Curtain, and reform prime minister
- Rodric Quentin Braithwaite Rodric Braithwaite From ambassador to Moscow during perestroika to author of Afgantsy, the British diplomat who knew Russia from the inside
- Alexander Alexandrovich Bessmertnykh Александр Александрович Бессмертных The last regular Soviet foreign minister
- Alois Mock Alois Mock An Austrian Europeanist who helped open the Iron Curtain
- Diego Zegers Cordovez Diego Zegers Cordovez The Ecuadorian UN envoy who shuttled through six years of Geneva talks to frame the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Yuli Alexandrovich Kvitsinsky Юлий Александрович Квицинский Gromyko protégé and arms negotiator remembered for the "Walk in the Woods"
- Géza Jeszenszky Jeszenszky Géza A historian who carried the memory of 1956 into diplomacy
- Pavel Ruslanovich Palazhchenko Павел Русланович Палажченко The interpreter who mediated summit diplomacy
- Paulo Jorge Paulo Teixeira Jorge MPLA diplomat and Angola's second foreign minister, a leading figure of the party's left wing