People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire
- Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
- Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
- Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash
- Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize
- Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary
- Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov Иван Сергеевич Хохлов The weaver who became wartime premier of the Russian republic
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev
- Serafima Alexandrovna Ryzhova Серафима Александровна Рыжова Yezhov’s longtime secretary, source of the first deposition against him
- Konstantin Dmitriyevich Pamfilov Константин Дмитриевич Памфилов Wartime RSFSR acting premier who oversaw civilian evacuation amid the Moscow panic
- Pyotr Georgievich Lazutin Пётр Георгиевич Лазутин Chairman of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and one of the six executed in the Leningrad Affair
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov Николай Александрович Тихонов The conservative premier of late Brezhnevism
- Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov Борис Николаевич Черноусов The RSFSR premier who rose in the Leningrad Affair's wake and fell at the 19th Party Congress
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirtyukov Михаил Сергеевич Смиртюков The non-Politburo power who was the institutional memory of the Soviet government for 25 years
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev Михаил Сергеевич Соломенцев Brezhnev-era industrial technocrat who ran the Russian republic for 12 years
- Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov Виталий Иванович Воротников The last RSFSR premier who tried not to break Russia away
- Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov Николай Иванович Рыжков Premier during perestroika’s economic crisis
- Andrei Serafimovich Grachev Андрей Серафимович Грачёв An insider witness to the collapse of reform
- Alexander Mitrofanovich Obolensky Александр Митрофанович Оболенский The engineer who became the first person in Soviet history to run against a sitting General Secretary