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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 382 Government and administration 92 Legislature and state representation 25 Military command 264 Security, intelligence and policing 193 Diplomacy and international organization 80 Economy, finance and planning 119 Industry and production 104 Agriculture and land policy 26 Ideology and propaganda 83 Social movements and organizing 238 Scholarship and theory 44 Education 10 Science and technology 126 Literature and arts 61 Law and justice 34

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 148 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 8 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Soviet Unionstate 5 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 4 Communist Party of China 3

All 39 affiliations

Albania

Party of Labour of Albania 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 1

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 3 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 3 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Hungary

Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 8

India

Indian National Congress 1

Romania

Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 32 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 3

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1 African National Congress (ANC) 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 148 Soviet Unionstate 5

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 2

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 3

Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position(set)

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 3 Left critics of Bolshevism 33 Socialist-bloc reform leader 9 Dissident 17 Anarchists 11 Non-Bolshevik socialists 20 Narodniks 7 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 5 Fascists and Nazis 1 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 7 Western Marxist theorists 4 Marxism and communism 238 Early socialism 1 Revolutionary socialism 3 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Nationalism 6

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 169 Russia 15 Hungary 7 France 6 Germany 4 Romania 4 China 3 Czechoslovakia 3 Poland 3 Albania 2 Estonia 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 United States 2 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 Czechia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 East Germany 1 Greece 1 India 1 Korea 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 1 Vietnam 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 135 Ukraine 11 Belarus 9 Hungary 8 Poland 8 Georgia 7 France 5 Germany 5 Latvia 5 China 3 Romania 3 Albania 2 Czechia 2 Estonia 2 Finland 2 Korea 2 Lithuania 2 Moldova 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 United States 2 Armenia 1 Azerbaijan 1 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Greece 1 India 1 Martinique 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 1 United Kingdom 1 Uzbekistan 1 Vietnam 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 7 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 62 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 43 The last generation1985–1991 25

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 3 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 30 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 24

Social movements and organizing Marxism and communism Clear all

238 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Zoltán Schönherz Schönherz Zoltán Underground Communist leader who organised anti-war demonstrations through the Independence Committee and was executed in 1942 Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1905–1942
Aris son of Dimitrios Velouchiotis Άρης Βελουχιώτης Organizer of a mass partisan war against occupation Military command · Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) 1905–1945
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
Ferenc Rózsa Rózsa Ferenc Communist who was the first editor of the underground Szabad Nép and died in custody after his arrest in 1942 Ideology and propaganda · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1906–1942
Wang Shiwei 王实味 The writer whose “Wild Lilies” criticised privilege at Yan’an and made him the rectification movement’s first victim Literature and arts · Communist Party of China 1906–1947
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
Juan Modesto Juan Guilloto León A field commander of the defeated Republic Military command · Spanish Republic 1906–1969
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
Edward Mieczysław Ochab Edward Mieczysław Ochab The transitional First Secretary of 1956 who turned Khrushchev's Secret Speech into a mass document and then yielded power to Gomułka Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1906–1989
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko Андрей Павлович Кириленко Brezhnev-era senior secretary for cadres Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Ho Ka-i Алексей Хегай Principal organizer of the Workers' Party of Korea and leader of its early Soviet faction Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1908–1953
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
Aleksey Illarionovich Kirichenko Алексей Илларионович Кириченко Khrushchev-era secretary for party appointments Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1975
Teohari Georgescu Teohari Georgescu The first communist interior minister, builder of the Securitate, purged in 1952 alongside Pauker and Luca for "shielding" them Security, intelligence and policing · Romania 1908–1976
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
Iosif Mikhailovich Turko Иосиф Михайлович Турко A Kuznetsov appointee to the Yaroslavl obkom who was sentenced to 15 years instead of death in the Leningrad Affair Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1908–1994
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
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
Carlos Marighella Carlos Marighella From congressman to urban guerrilla theorist: the military dictatorship's enemy number one Social movements and organizing · Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1911–1969
Todor Hristov Zhivkov Тодор Христов Живков The Eastern Bloc's longest-serving leader, 35 years as Moscow's most loyal Balkan ally Political and party leadership · Bulgaria 1911–1998
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
Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire Co-founder of Négritude, pioneering critic of colonialism Literature and arts · French Communist Party (PCF) 1913–2008
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
Claudia Jones Claudia Jones The Black feminist Marxist who pioneered intersectional analysis, and created the Notting Hill Carnival Social movements and organizing · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1915–1964
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
Nuritdin Akramovich Mukhitdinov Nuritdin Akramovich Muhitdinov First Central Asian in the Presidium, nationalities-policy practitioner Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union 1917–2008
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
Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu Romania's leader who combined independent diplomacy with a cult of personality Political and party leadership · Romania 1918–1989
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
Pierre Félix Georges Pierre Georges A communist pioneer of armed resistance to the Occupation Military command · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1919–1944
Elena Ceaușescu Elena Ceaușescu The regime insider who fused political power with scientific prestige Political and party leadership · Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 1919–1989
Viktor Mikhailovich Bushuyev Виктор Михайлович Бушуев CC department head who directed the Soviet chemical industry Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–1996
Georgy Emmanuilovich Tsukanov Георгий Эммануилович Цуканов The quiet gatekeeper who controlled Brezhnev's paper flow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–2001
Tố Hữu Tố Hữu Revolutionary poet laureate who, as the Party's ideology chief, policed its writers Literature and arts · Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1920–2002
Nikolai Grigoryevich Yegorychev Николай Григорьевич Егорычев The Moscow party boss who challenged Brezhnev and was exiled to diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2005
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв The conservative Second Secretary inside perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2021