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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 139 Government and administration 40 Legislature and state representation 6 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 211 Security, intelligence and policing 110 Diplomacy and international organization 44 Economy, finance and planning 94 Industry and production 84 Agriculture and land policy 18 Ideology and propaganda 56 Social movements and organizing 179 Scholarship and theory 105 Education 8 Science and technology 108 Literature and arts 79 Religion 4 Law and justice 31

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 174 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 126 Russian Empirestate 28 Russian White movement 15 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 9 Nazi party and regime 2 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 2

All 13 affiliations

Germany

Nazi party and regime 2

International organizations

Comintern 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 28 Russian White movement 15 Russian Federation state institutionsstate 1 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 9 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 2 United Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 126 Soviet Unionstate 174

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republicstate 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 33 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 7 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 163

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 177 Russia 34

Background(set)

Any Russia 211 Germany 39 France 37 Ukraine 32 United States 24 Hungary 17 United Kingdom 16 China 15 Japan 13 Poland 10 Finland 7 Belarus 6 Latvia 6 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 5 Spain 5 Armenia 4 Italy 4 Moldova 4 Turkey 4 Vietnam 4 Angola 3 Greece 3 Lithuania 3 Romania 3 Serbia 3 South Africa 3 Austria 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Estonia 2 Georgia 2 Korea 2 Montenegro 2 Argentina 1 Belgium 1 Cambodia 1 Cuba 1 Czechia 1 Ethiopia 1 Kazakhstan 1 Laos 1 Mongolia 1 New Zealand 1 Nicaragua 1 Somalia 1 Tajikistan 1 Turkmenistan 1 Uzbekistan 1 Yemen 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 31 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 31 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 81 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 39 The last generation1985–1991 28

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1

Military command Background: Russia Clear all

211 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis Лев Захарович Мехлис From Stalin's personal secretary to the Red Army's purge enforcer, nicknamed 'the Inquisitor of the Red Army' Military command · Soviet Union 1889–1953
Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away Military command · Soviet Union 1890–1918
Ivan Pavlovich Kalmykov Иван Павлович Калмыков Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks who took Khabarovsk in 1918 and became notorious for shootings without trial and plunder Military command · Russian White movement 1890–1920
Boris Mironovich Feldman Борис Миронович Фельдман One of the eight Tukhachevsky-trial defendants; his confession under torture started the chain reaction that consumed the Red Army Military command · Soviet Union 1890–1937
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher Василий Константинович Блюхер “Order of the Red Banner No. 1”: Civil War hero and one of the first five marshals, extinguished in Lefortovo Military command · Soviet Union 1890–1938
Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov Григорий Михайлович Семёнов The White ataman who ruled Transbaikal under Japanese protection and defied Kolchak Military command · Russian White movement 1890–1946
Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations Military command · Soviet Union 1891–1920
Anatoly Nikolayevich Pepelyayev Анатолий Николаевич Пепеляев The 27-year-old White general whose Yakut expedition closed the Civil War Military command · Russian White movement 1891–1938
Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov Александр Васильевич Горбатов The army general who survived Kolyma, took Berlin, and testified to Stalin-era repression Military command · Soviet Union 1891–1973
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924
Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism Military command · Soviet Union 1892–1925
Pyotr Ionovich Baranov Пётр Ионович Баранов Principal architect of the Soviet Air Force and aviation industry Military command · Soviet Union 1892–1933
Andrei Vasilyevich Khrulev Андрей Васильевич Хрулёв The invisible commander who moved the war, the only supply general Stalin toasted as architect of victory Military command · Soviet Union 1892–1962
Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev Иван Владимирович Тюленев The cavalry general who bolted the Caucasus gate, witness to three wars Military command · Soviet Union 1892–1978
Timofey Ivanovich Kirpichnikov Тимофей Иванович Кирпичников A soldier leader who defied imperial orders Military command · Russian Empire 1892–1917/1918
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский “The Red Napoleon,” killed by the army he built Military command · Soviet Union 1893–1937
Yan Borisovich Gamarnik Ян Борисович Гамарник The Red Army's political chief who backed the purges, then shot himself as they closed in Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1937
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin Фёдор Иванович Толбухин The marshal who liberated the Balkans and prized soldiers' lives above glory Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1949
Maksim Alexeyevich Purkayev Максим Алексеевич Пуркаев Mordvin carpenter's son who rose to Army General and led the Manchurian offensive Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1953
Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov Семён Ильич Богданов The tank army commander who first entered Berlin, sidelined after Stalin's death Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1960
Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable' Military command · Soviet Union 1894–1965
Anatoly Grigorievich Zheleznyakov Анатолий Григорьевич Железняков The anarchist sailor who dissolved the Constituent Assembly with 'The guard is tired', an icon of the revolution who fell in battle at 24 Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1919
Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev' Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1919
Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1938
Viktor Ivanovich Maltsev Виктор Иванович Мальцев Soviet Air Force colonel turned ROA Air Force commander, builder of the Vlasov movement's air arm Military command 1895–1946
Nikolai Pavlovich Pukhov Николай Павлович Пухов The seminary-trained instructor who drove the 13th Army into the heart of Europe Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1958
Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev Иван Степанович Юмашев Pacific Fleet commander of Operation August Storm, the admiral Stalin dismissed as 'not a minister' Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1972
Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov Михаил Степанович Шумилов Commander of the 64th Army: Stalingrad's southern shield for six months Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1975
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky Александр Михайлович Василевский The seminarian-turned-staff-officer who designed Uranus Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1977
Andrei Ivanovich Zelentsov Андрей Иванович Зеленцов A division commander caught between encirclement and higher command Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1941
Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin Фёдор Иванович Трухин A staff general who turned from Soviet command to an anti-Soviet armed organisation Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1946
Yakov Nikolayevich Fedorenko Яков Николаевич Федоренко First Marshal of Armored Troops who led the Red Army's tank forces through the entire war Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1947
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov Иван Ефимович Петров The army general who held Odessa and Sevastopol, and returned to command every time Stalin sacked him Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1958
Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov Алексей Иннокентьевич Антонов The architect of every major Soviet operation from 1943 onward: the only Order of Victory holder who was not a marshal Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1962
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov Георгий Константинович Жуков Stalin's Marshal of Victory, twice demoted for his own fame Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1974
Mikhail Semyonovich Khozin Михаил Семёнович Хозин Soviet Colonel General who led Leningrad through the first blockade winter, then lost the 2nd Shock Army and his command Military command · Soviet Union 1896–1979
Yakov Ivanovich Tryapitsyn Яков Иванович Тряпицын Far Eastern partisan commander who took Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 1920, then executed its prisoners and burned the town Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1920
Ivan Semyonovich Kutyakov Иван Семёнович Кутяков Chapayev's successor and Civil War hero who outlived his usefulness to Stalin Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1938
Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов The general who built Soviet tank forces and became their first scapegoat Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1941
Mikhail Gr. Grigoryevich Yefremov Михаил Григорьевич Ефремов Commander of the 33rd Army at Moscow, encircled at Vyazma and shot himself when Stalin denied retreat Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1942
Vasily Timofeyevich Volsky Василий Тимофеевич Вольский Soviet tank army commander who wrote to Stalin warning Operation Uranus would fail Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1946
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov Леонид Александрович Говоров From Kolchak's White Army to Marshal of the USSR who broke the 900-day siege of Leningrad Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1955
Georgy Fedorovich Zakharov Георгий Фёдорович Захаров Peasant-born Army General who led the 2nd Belorussian Front and was demoted after Bagration Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1957
Vladimir Viktorovich Kryukov Владимир Викторович Крюков Hero of the Guards cavalry corps, brought down by the Trophy Case, rehabilitated in the Thaw Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1959
Miron Semyonovich Vovsi Мирон Семёнович Вовси Red Army chief internist who built Soviet wartime field therapy, and the lead defendant in the Doctors' Plot Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1960
Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков The marshal who survived NKVD torture to break the Leningrad blockade Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1968
Mikhail Alekseevich Shalin Михаил Алексеевич Шалин The meticulous staff officer who led Soviet military intelligence through the transition from Stalin to Khrushchev Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1970
Ivan Stepanovich Konev Иван Степанович Конев The marshal who made encirclement an art, and became a political soldier in peacetime Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1973
Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky Кузьма Никитович Галицкий Army general who survived the Purge and took Königsberg Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1973
Vladimir Vasilyevich Kurasov Владимир Васильевич Курасов The staff intellect who designed the 1st Baltic Front's operations and shaped Soviet military science Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1973

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