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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Yakov Ilyich Golev Яков Ильич Голев
The finance technocrat who led Gosbank through the post-war reconstruction years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1894–1960
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Soong Ziwen 宋子文
A Nationalist technocrat who bridged finance and diplomacy
Economy, finance and planning · Kuomintang
1894–1971
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Jukka Rangell Jukka Rangell
Prime minister who declared Finland at war in 1941 and was later convicted in the war-responsibility trials
Economy, finance and planning · Finland state institutions
1894–1982
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Hubert Ripka Hubert Ripka
Postwar foreign trade minister who resigned in February 1948 and went back into exile
Economy, finance and planning · Czechoslovakia
1895–1958
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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan Анастас Иванович Микоян
The man who built the Soviet table, and the negotiator “from Ilyich to Ilyich”
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1895–1978
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Ivan Adamovich Kraval Иван Адамович Краваль
The statistician who counted a population that displeased Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1897–1937
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Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina Полина Семёновна Жемчужина
The first woman to head a Soviet industrial ministry, Molotov's wife, caught between Kremlin power and Jewish identity
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1897–1970
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Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Erhard
The West German economic statesman who shaped currency reform and the social market economy
Economy, finance and planning · Germany state institutions
1897–1977
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Ivan Grigoryevich Kabanov Иван Григорьевич Кабанов
The wartime electrical industry chief who delivered lithium-6 for the hydrogen bomb, and Stalin's last foreign trade minister
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1898–1972
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Heinrich Rau Heinrich Rau
Communist who chaired the German Economic Commission, the forerunner of the GDR government, and led East German economic policy
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1899–1961
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Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann
East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953
Industry and production · East Germany
1899–1975
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Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev Арсений Григорьевич Зверев
Long-serving finance minister through war and reconstruction
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1969
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Maksim Zakharovich Saburov Максим Захарович Сабуров
Planner of the late Stalin and Malenkov years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1977
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Nikolai Demyanovich Psurtsev Николай Демьянович Псурцев
Longest-serving Minister of Communications who ran front-line signals at the Battle of Moscow and built Soviet telecom for 27 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1900–1980
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Grigory Petrovich Kosyachenko Григорий Петрович Косяченко
Gosplan planner across the late Stalin and post-Stalin transition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1901–1983
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Ivan Vladimirovich Kovalev Иван Владимирович Ковалёв
The railway general who moved armies in secret, and fell over a pair of earrings
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1901–1993
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Viktor Georgiyevich Bakayev Виктор Георгиевич Бакаев
16-year minister who built the Soviet merchant fleet into a global maritime power
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1902–1987
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Gennady Ivanovich Smirnov Геннадий Иванович Смирнов
Gosplan chief who vanished into the Terror in eight months
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1938
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Nikolai Alexeyevich Voznesensky Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский
Wartime planning prodigy killed in the Leningrad Affair
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1950
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Vasily Fyodorovich Popov Василий Фёдорович Попов
The Gosbank chairman who executed postwar monetary reform over a decade
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1964
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Boris Pavlovich Beshchev Борис Павлович Бещев
The longest-serving Soviet minister, who led the railways for 29 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1981
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Zoltán Vas Vas Zoltán
Rákosi-era planning chief who fell from grace and joined Imre Nagy
Economy, finance and planning · Hungary
1903–1983
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Leonid Gatovsky Лев Маркович Гатовский
The editor who built the political economy of socialism as a discipline
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1903–1997
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Alexei Andreyevich Poskonov Алексей Андреевич Посконов
The Bashkir-born financial technocrat who ran Gosbank through the Kosygin reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1969
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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin Алексей Николаевич Косыгин
The premier who tried to plant profit inside the plan
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1980
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Yakov Yermolayevich Chadayev Яков Ермолаевич Чадаев
The Gosplan economist who co-signed wartime decrees with Stalin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1985
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Pyotr Faddeyevich Lomako Пётр Фаддеевич Ломако
Founder of Soviet non-ferrous metallurgy and Gosplan chairman
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1904–1990
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Gao Gang 高岗
The second-most powerful man in the CCP who wielded virtually autonomous power in Manchuria, then walked into Mao's trap and fell
Economy, finance and planning · People’s Republic of China
1905–1954
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Vladimir Nikonovich Starovsky Владимир Никонович Старовский
The man who ran Soviet statistics for 35 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1905–1975
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Alexander Akimovich Ishkov Александр Акимович Ишков
Architect of the Soviet ocean-going fishing fleet, felled by the 'fish mafia' scandal
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1905–1988
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Chen Yun 陈云
CCP elder who designed China's socialist economic system with his 'bird-cage economy' concept
Economy, finance and planning · People’s Republic of China
1905–1995
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Grishmanov Иван Александрович Гришманов
Carpenter-turned-minister who led the Soviet building-materials industry for 14 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1979
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Yevgeni Fyodorovich Kozhevnikov Евгений Фёдорович Кожевников
Founding head of Mintransstroy who led Soviet transport construction across the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1979
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Alexander Ivanovich Struyev Александр Иванович Струев
The trade minister who ran Soviet domestic commerce for 18 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1991
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Dmitry Georgievich Zhimerin Дмитрий Георгиевич Жимерин
Standard-bearer of Soviet electrification who became wartime power minister at 35
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1906–1995
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Vasily Mikhailovich Ryabikov Василий Михайлович Рябиков
Nine Orders of Lenin: the organizer who sustained the Soviet military-industrial complex for 35 years, from wartime arms to Sputnik
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1974
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Pavel Vasilyevich Kovanov Павел Васильевич Кованов
First chairman of People's Control, Shelepin's deputy who became Brezhnev's auditor
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1986
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Semen Andreevich Skachkov Семён Андреевич Скачков
The industrial manager who ran Soviet foreign economic aid for a quarter-century
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1996
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Ivan Vasilyevich Arkhipov Иван Васильевич Архипов
Face of Sino-Soviet economic cooperation, senior operational manager of the Soviet economy under four general secretaries
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–1998
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Novikov Владимир Николаевич Новиков
A defence-industry technocrat who rose from arms-plant floor to head of state planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1907–2000
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Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev Николай Семёнович Патоличев
The man who ran Soviet foreign trade for 27 years, holder of eleven Orders of Lenin
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1908–1989
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Bo Yibo 薄一波
First finance minister and central figure of the “61 renegades” case, who returned in the reform era as a conservative elder
Economy, finance and planning · People’s Republic of China
1908–2007
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Alexander Konstantinovich Korovushkin Александр Константинович Коровушкин
The Gosbank chairman who carried out the 1961 redenomination and, witnesses say, threw his hat at Khrushchev
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1909–1976
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Mikhail Avksentyevich Lesechko Михаил Авксентьевич Лесечко
The deputy premier who directed Soviet economic integration with the Eastern Bloc for 18 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1909–1984
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Li Xiannian 李先念
The finance chief who survived the Cultural Revolution, helped arrest the Gang of Four and became president; one of the “eight elders”
Economy, finance and planning · People’s Republic of China
1909–1992
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Alexander Fedorovich Zasyadko Александр Фёдорович Засядько
The miner's son who climbed from the Donbas pits to the summit of Kremlin economic planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1963
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Bruno Leuschner Bruno Leuschner
East German planner who ran planning in the German Economic Commission and then chaired the State Planning Commission
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1910–1965
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Pyotr Fyodorovich Krivonos Пётр Фёдорович Кривонос
The locomotive driver who carried productivity innovation onto the railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1980
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Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits Вениамин Эммануилович Дымшиц
The Jewish construction technocrat who was Soviet deputy premier for 23 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1993
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Iosif Iosifovich Kuzmin Иосиф Иосифович Кузьмин
The planner who executed Khrushchev's sovnarkhoz reform
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1996