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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 Communist Party and Bolsheviks 132 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 29 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 14 Left Opposition 7 Narodnaya Volya 6 Left Communists 4 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 3 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3

All 18 affiliations

International organizations

Comintern 1 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 19 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Anarchists 5 Non-Bolshevik socialists 6 Narodniks 7 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 135 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 149 Russia 29 United States 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 179 Poland 27 France 21 Ukraine 17 Germany 15 Belarus 12 Hungary 12 Georgia 8 Latvia 7 Estonia 6 China 5 Czechia 4 Finland 4 Lithuania 4 United States 4 Korea 3 Romania 3 Spain 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 United Kingdom 3 Albania 2 Bulgaria 2 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2 Greece 2 Moldova 2 Serbia 2 South Africa 2 Switzerland 2 Armenia 1 Azerbaijan 1 Brazil 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 El Salvador 1 India 1 Ireland 1 Madagascar 1 Martinique 1 Slovakia 1 Uzbekistan 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 21 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 63 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 33 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 37 The last generation1985–1991 16

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 4 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2

Social movements and organizing Background: Russia Clear all

179 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1898–1989
Andrei Platonovich Platonov Андрей Платонович Платонов The engineer who wrote utopia's ruins Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1951
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov Лев Владимирович Кулешов Creator of the Kuleshov Effect, the father of Soviet montage theory who proved editing, not the shot, creates meaning Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1970
Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin Яков Григорьевич Блюмкин Left SR assassin of Mirbach turned OGPU illegal resident, executed for meeting Trotsky Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1900–1929
Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov Борис Георгиевич Бажанов The only defector from Stalin's Secretariat, chronicler of Politburo secrets Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1900–1982
Mikhail Ilyich Romm Михаил Ильич Ромм The director who built Lenin's screen myth for Stalin, then dissected fascism under the Thaw Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1971
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov Георгий Максимилианович Маленков The first loser of the age when losers stopped dying Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1988
Nikolai Pavlovich Chaplin Николай Павлович Чаплин The boy commissar who built the Komsomol into the party's youth-training apparatus Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1938
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov Евгений Петрович Петров Co-author with Ilf of The Twelve Chairs, satirist who captured NEP-era Soviet life and later edited Ogonyok magazine Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1942
Vasily Mikhailovich Andrianov Василий Михайлович Андрианов A Stalin-era regional party boss who ran wartime Sverdlovsk, then rebuilt Leningrad after the Leningrad Affair purges Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1978
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko Пантелеймон Кондратьевич Пономаренко Stalin's trusted partisan chief who orchestrated the Rail War, pushed aside at the threshold of succession Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1902–1984
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev Александр Васильевич Косарев The young Komsomol chief who carried out the Great Purge and was then consumed by it Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1939
Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov Пётр Сергеевич Попков Wartime steward of besieged Leningrad, first victim of the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1950
Nikolai Ilyich Belyaev Николай Ильич Беляев Khrushchev loyalist who defended him in 1957, undone by the Temirtau riots Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov Николай Константинович Черкасов The actor of transformation, whose profile is stamped on the Order of Alexander Nevsky Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1966
Averky Borisovich Aristov Аверкий Борисович Аристов Presidium member born a fisherman's son, party cadres chief who loved to fish Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1973
Alexei Nikolayevich Leontiev Алексей Николаевич Леонтьев Founder of activity theory who laid the institutional foundations of Marxist psychology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1903–1979
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky Николай Алексеевич Островский Author of How the Steel Was Tempered, paragon of socialist realism Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1936
Yakov Fyodorovich Kapustin Яков Фёдорович Капустин The engineer who ran Leningrad's industry as second city secretary, shot as a lead defendant in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1950
Stepan Afanasyevich Balezin Степан Афанасьевич Балезин Kaftanov's senior assistant who did the day-to-day organizational work that launched the Soviet atomic project Science and technology · Soviet Union 1904–1982
Nikolai Nikolayevich Shatalin Николай Николаевич Шаталин Malenkov's cadres chief: party organizer who oversaw the security organs after Stalin's death, then sidelined by Khrushchev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1904–1984
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Павел Алексеевич Черенков The Soviet Nobel physicist who discovered the Cherenkov effect Science and technology · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1904–1990
Alexei Alexandrovich Kuznetsov Алексей Александрович Кузнецов Postwar No. 2 in the Party Secretariat, purged in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1950
Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov Иван Васильевич Спиридонов Khrushchev-era Leningrad party boss who proposed removing Stalin's body from the Mausoleum and stumbled over the apparatus's loyalty test Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov Николай Михайлович Пегов Cadres chief pushed from late-Stalin Secretariat into diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1991
Lev Romanovich Sheinin Лев Романович Шейнин The Stalin-era chief investigator who pioneered the Soviet detective story Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1967
Georgy Mikhailovich Popov Георгий Михайлович Попов The Moscow party boss who rebuilt the postwar capital and fell in the succession struggle Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1968
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович The composer who scored the Soviet century, and walked through two official annihilations Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1975
Vladimir Nikiforovich Malin Владимир Никифорович Малин 11-year keeper of the party's central document flow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1982
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko Андрей Павлович Кириленко Brezhnev-era senior secretary for cadres Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Frol Romanovich Kozlov Фрол Романович Козлов The second secretary whose stroke opened the Brezhnev era Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1965
Vladimir Fyodorovich Promyslov Владимир Фёдорович Промыслов The 23-year mayor who built the Brezhnev-era face of Moscow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1993
Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov Константин Викторович Русаков Brezhnev's secretary who ran party-to-party diplomacy with the socialist bloc Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1909–1993
Aleksandr Petrovich Rudakov Александр Петрович Рудаков Heavy-industry secretary in Khrushchev's bifurcated industrial Secretariat Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1966
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц The radio voice of the besieged city Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1975
Raya Dunayevskaya Raya Dunayevskaya From Trotsky's secretary to founder of Marxist Humanism Social movements and organizing · Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1910–1987
Georgy Sergeyevich Pavlov Георгий Сергеевич Павлов Brezhnev's 18-year steward of the party treasury and 'party gold' Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1910–1991
Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov Михаил Тимофеевич Ефремов From Volga orphanage boy to Kosygin's deputy premier: a party cadres specialist who ran three obkoms Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1911–2000
Leonid Nikolayevich Yefremov Леонид Николаевич Ефремов The party man who handed Stavropol to Gorbachev, then called him a renegade Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–2007
Nikolai Romanovich Mironov Николай Романович Миронов The party's overseer of the power ministries who organized Khrushchev's removal Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1913–1964
Sergei Mitrofanovich Kovalev Сергей Митрофанович Ковалёв Soviet ideologue who codified the Brezhnev Doctrine in the pages of Pravda Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1913–1990
Nikolai Ivanovich Savinkin Николай Иванович Савинкин The personnel gatekeeper of the Soviet power ministries for 19 years under Brezhnev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1913–1993
Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin Виктор Васильевич Гришин The face of the Brezhnev era who ran Moscow for eighteen years and died while re-applying for his pension Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–1992
Aleksei Mikhailovich Shkolnikov Алексей Михайлович Школьников The apparatchik who ran three oblasts under Khrushchev and rose to People's Control Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–2003
Ivan Vasilyevich Kapitonov Иван Васильевич Капитонов The personnel chief who ran the nomenklatura for 21 years under Brezhnev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1915–2002
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov Александр Михайлович Прохоров Nobel-winning laser co-inventor who helmed the Great Soviet Encyclopedia for three decades Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1916–2002
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург From the H-bomb's 'second idea' to the Nobel Prize: a century-spanning theoretical physicist Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1916–2009
Vasily Sergeyevich Tolstikov Василий Сергеевич Толстиков Leningrad party leader during the Thaw who became ambassador to China Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1917–2003
Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov Фёдор Давыдович Кулаков Agriculture secretary seen as a Brezhnev successor whose sudden death opened the seat for Gorbachev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1918–1978
Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin Фёдор Константинович Мортин Sakharovsky's 13-year right hand and the short-lived PGU chief of early détente Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1918–1990

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