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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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Nikolai Vasilyevich Martynov Николай Васильевич Мартынов
From munitions to material supply, the technocrat who managed the arteries of the planned economy
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1910–1998
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Mefody Naumovich Sveshnikov Мефодий Наумович Свешников
A career banker of peasant stock who rose to the summit of the Soviet monobank
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1981
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Nikolai Timofeyevich Grishin Иван Тимофеевич Гришин
Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade for 26 years who steered industrial import deals across the Brezhnev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1985
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Vasily Fyodorovich Garbuzov Василий Фёдорович Гарбузов
The long-serving finance minister of stagnation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1985
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Lev Markovich Volodarsky Лев Маркович Володарский
Keeper of Soviet state statistics who managed the planned economy's numbers as the younger brother of a revolutionary martyr
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–1989
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov Николай Константинович Байбаков
Long-serving Gosplan chairman of the stagnation era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1911–2008
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Boris Kidrič Boris Kidrič
Yugoslav revolutionary who designed the economic theory of workers' self-management
Economy, finance and planning · Yugoslavia
1912–1953
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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–?
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Charles Vanik Charles Vanik
The congressman who made emigration a condition of trade
Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions
1913–2007
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Nako Spiru Nako Spiru
Albanian communist economic planner who led domestic criticism of Yugoslav economic control
Economy, finance and planning · Albania
1918–1947
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Nikolai Timofeevich Glushkov Николай Тимофеевич Глушков
Brezhnev-era chief price administrator who oversaw every official price in the USSR for 11 years
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–1999
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Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko Тимофей Борисович Гуженко
The merchant marine minister who conquered the Arctic with a nuclear icebreaker fleet
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–2008
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Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев
A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1918–2010
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Alkhimov Владимир Сергеевич Алхимов
Long-serving head of Gosbank
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1919–1993
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Ota Šik Ota Šik
Czechoslovak economist who designed a 'third way' between plan and market
Economy, finance and planning · Czechoslovakia
1919–2004
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Gerhard Schürer Gerhard Schürer
The GDR State Planning Commission chief who warned of bankruptcy but could not save the system
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1921–2010
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Boris Pavlovich Bugayev Борис Павлович Бугаев
Brezhnev's personal pilot who became Chief Marshal and the head of Soviet civil aviation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1923–2007
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Rezső Nyers Nyers Rezső
A party leader who pushed market reform within socialism
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1923–2018
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Mieczysław Zygmunt Jagielski Mieczysław Jagielski
A party official who contained crisis through concessions
Economy, finance and planning · Poland
1924–1997
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Boris Ivanovich Aristov Борис Иванович Аристов
The last Minister of Foreign Trade, who inherited a 27-year incumbent's post only to see the ministry itself abolished on his watch
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1925–2018
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Vasily Aleksandrovich Shamshin Василий Александрович Шамшин
Engineer-turned-minister who led the modernization of Soviet communications infrastructure
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1926–2009
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Nikolai Semyonovich Konarev Николай Семёнович Конарев
The last chief of the Soviet railways
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2007
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Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev Константин Фёдорович Катушев
Late Soviet foreign-economic official
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2010
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Yuri Petrovich Batalin Юрий Петрович Баталин
The perestroika-era construction chief who built the West Siberian oil and gas complex and the Chernobyl sarcophagus
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2013
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Boris Ivanovich Gostev Борис Иванович Гостев
The last orthodox Soviet finance minister who rejected market reform during perestroika
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1927–2015
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Che Guevara Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The internationalist icon who traded a stethoscope for a rifle
Military command · 26th of July Movement
1928–1967
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Kamentsev Владимир Михайлович Каменцев
The technocrat who brought Soviet fisheries to global leadership
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1928–2003
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Lev Alekseyevich Voronin Лев Алексеевич Воронин
Guardian of state material supply in the Gorbachev era
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1928–2008
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Talyzin Николай Владимирович Талызин
Gosplan chairman of the perestroika era who built the world's first satellite TV broadcasting system
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–1991
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Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova Александра Павловна Бирюкова
Gorbachev's highest-ranking woman, the 'Russian Margaret Thatcher' tasked with solving Soviet consumer shortages
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–2008
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Stepan Alekseyevich Shalaev Степан Алексеевич Шалаев
The last leader of the Soviet trade-union system
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1929–2022
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Stepan Aramaisovich Sitaryan Степан Арамаисович Ситарян
The highest-ranking Armenian economist in the Soviet apparatus, who pushed the Law on Cooperatives through the Politburo
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1930–2009
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Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin Леонид Иванович Абалкин
Chief economic theorist of late perestroika, architect of the 'regulated market' between radical reformers and conservative planners
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1930–2011
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Arnold Vasilyevich Voylukov Арнольд Васильевич Войлуков
The Soviet banker who testified about reform's hidden origins
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1932–2016
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Stanislav Sergeyevich Shatalin Станислав Сергеевич Шаталин
Architect of the 500 Days programme, radical reform economist who tried to convert the Soviet planned economy to the market in one leap
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1934–1997
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Kondrat Zigmundovich Terekh Кондрат Зигмундович Терех
The last Soviet trade minister, formed in consumer cooperatives
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1935–
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Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov Валентин Сергеевич Павлов
The last Soviet premier and an August coup participant
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2003
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Yuri Dmitrievich Maslyukov Юрий Дмитриевич Маслюков
The last Gosplan generation
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2010
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Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko Виктор Владимирович Геращенко
Central banker of the Soviet collapse and Russian transition
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1937–2022
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Carlos Alberto Dilolwa Carlos Alberto da Rocha Oliveira Dilolwa
Designer of Angolan economic planning and MPLA theorist
Economy, finance and planning · Angola
1939–1996
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Leszek Balcerowicz Leszek Balcerowicz
Architect of Poland's shock therapy and symbol of the post-communist transition
Economy, finance and planning · Poland
1947–
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Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov Владимир Иванович Щербаков
The last Gosplan chairman who presided over the dissolution of Soviet planning
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1949–
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Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov Артём Михайлович Тарасов
The first legal Soviet millionaire, whose 90,000-ruble party dues payment forced the cooperative law to be amended twice
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1950–2017
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Valentin Bodiul Valentin Bodiul
The Cricova winery chief who testified to the vineyard destruction of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1951–2020
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Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky Григорий Алексеевич Явлинский
Architect of the 500 Days Program: perestroika economist who drafted a rapid transition from planned economy to market
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1952–
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Usov Владимир Александрович Усов
The 37-year-old economist killed by a stray bullet while coming to Komar's aid at the barricades
Economy, finance and planning
1954–1991
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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar Егор Тимурович Гайдар
Architect of shock therapy, the economist who dismantled the planned economy and laid the first stones of Russian capitalism
Economy, finance and planning · Russian Federation state institutions
1956–2009