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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 628 Government and administration 304 Legislature and state representation 70 Monarchs and royalty 24 Military command 520 Security, intelligence and policing 232 Diplomacy and international organization 163 Economy, finance and planning 147 Industry and production 110 Agriculture and land policy 36 Ideology and propaganda 103 Social movements and organizing 374 Scholarship and theory 278 Education 17 Science and technology 146 Literature and arts 141 Religion 20 Law and justice 55

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 60 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 49 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5 People’s Republic of Chinastate 5 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 4 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Hungarystate 3 Soviet Ukrainestate 2

All 23 affiliations

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Benin

Beninstate 1

China

Communist Party of China 2 People’s Republic of Chinastate 5

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 4 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 3 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 2 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 2

International organizations

Comintern 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 49 Soviet Unionstate 60

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 2 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Dissident 1 Anarchists 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 3 Fascists and Nazis 3 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Marxism and communism 83 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1 Nationalism 5

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 67 Hungary 8 China 5 East Germany 4 Germany 4 Russia 4 France 3 Lithuania 2 Benin 1 Estonia 1 Romania 1 Turkey 1 United Kingdom 1

Background

Any Russia 56 Germany 8 Hungary 8 China 5 Armenia 4 Belarus 4 Lithuania 3 Ukraine 3 France 2 Benin 1 Estonia 1 Martinique 1 Moldova 1 Palestine 1 Turkmenistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 2 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 16 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 30 The last generation1985–1991 6

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 5

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 14 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 12

Ideology and propaganda

103 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Charles Delescluze Charles Delescluze Jacobin journalist of 1830 and 1848 who became the Commune’s war delegate and walked to his death on a barricade Ideology and propaganda · International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1809–1871
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed Ideology and propaganda · Russian Empire 1827–1907
Mikhail Stepanovich Olminsky Михаил Степанович Ольминский Founder of Istpart and architect of Bolshevik party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1863–1933
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова Lenin's older sister, Old Bolshevik who organized the Iskra underground, edited Pravda, and co-founded the Soviet historical establishment Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1864–1935
Béla Somogyi Somogyi Béla Editor of the Social Democratic Népszava who was murdered by an officer detachment in 1920 for exposing the White Terror Ideology and propaganda 1868–1920
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Михаил Николаевич Покровский Founder of Soviet Marxist historiography, posthumously repudiated Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1932
Harold Harmsworth Harold Sidney Harmsworth British press baron Lord Rothermere, who became a hero in Hungary by demanding revision of the Trianon borders in the Daily Mail Ideology and propaganda 1868–1940
Panteleimon Nikolayevich Lepeshinsky Пантелеймон Николаевич Лепешинский Co-founder of Istpart, who laid the institutional foundations of Party historiography Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1868–1944
Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov Иван Иванович Скворцов Bolshevik intellectual who brought Capital into Russian and served as the first People's Commissar of Finance Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1870–1928
Gustave Hervé Gustave Hervé A French journalist who moved from antimilitarist socialism toward nationalist authoritarian politics. Ideology and propaganda · Independent activity 1871–1944
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk Микола Олексійович Скрипник Architect of Ukrainization: the cultural revolutionary who turned the gun on himself Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1872–1933
Semyon Leontyevich Maslov Семён Леонтьевич Маслов A Socialist-Revolutionary agrarian thinker who championed peasant cooperation Agriculture and land policy · Russian Provisional Government 1873–1938
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova Мария Ильинична Ульянова Lenin's youngest sister who edited the revolution with a pencil: press organizer in her own right Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1878–1937
István Haller Haller István Christian Socialist politician who, as minister of religion and education, prepared and tabled the numerus clausus bill of 1920 Government and administration · Hungary 1880–1964
Pavel Ivanovich Lebedev-Poliansky Павел Иванович Лебедев-Полянский Architect and first head of the Soviet censorship apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1948
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin Абрам Моисеевич Деборин Founder of Soviet Marxist philosophy, condemned as 'Menshevizing idealism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1881–1963
Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin Фёдор Иванович Калинин Proletkult's worker-intellectual: a weaver by origin and theorist of proletarian culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1882–1920
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1882–1945
Boris Dmitriyevich Grekov Борис Дмитриевич Греков Founder of Soviet medieval studies; established the feudal interpretation of Kievan Rus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1882–1953
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov Government and administration · Soviet Union 1883–1921
Pan Halippa Pan Halippa Journalist and politician who, as vice-president and later president of Sfatul Țării, led the movement for Bessarabia’s union with Romania Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1883–1979
Boris Zakharovich Shumyatsky Борис Захарович Шумяцкий The revolutionary who built Soviet cinema's golden age and dreamed of a Soviet Hollywood Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Semyon Markovich Dimanshtein Семён Маркович Диманштейн Rabbi ordained, Bolshevik Jewish-commissar, and architect of Soviet nationalities policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1938
Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia Government and administration · Soviet Union 1887–1937
Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky Владимир Петрович Затонский Ukrainian Soviet state-builder and scholar-politician, revolutionary bureaucrat across education, party, and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1888–1938
Willi Münzenberg Willi Münzenberg The 'Red Millionaire' who exposed Nazi terror through publishing, the Comintern's greatest propagandist, who broke with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1889–1940
Cafer Seydahmet Cafer Seydamet Crimean Tatar politician who ran the military and foreign affairs of the Crimean People’s Republic and led the national movement in exile Military command 1889–1960
Oleksandr Yakovlevich Shumsky Александр Яковлевич Шумский Pioneer of Ukrainian national communism, the original 'Shumskyism' Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1890–1946
V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1891–1918
Béla Bacsó Bacsó Béla Socialist writer and Népszava journalist murdered with Béla Somogyi in 1920 for writing against the White Terror Ideology and propaganda 1891–1920
Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945 Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1893–1946
Ivan Mikhailovich Gronsky Иван Михайлович Гронский The literary commissar who coined 'socialist realism' with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1894–1985
Aleksei Ivanovich Stetsky Алексей Иванович Стецкий Propaganda chief who moved from Bukharin's 'red professor' circle to Stalin's side Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1896–1938
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1896–1948
Joseph Goebbels Joseph Goebbels Nazi Party propaganda chief and minister who promoted antisemitism and dictatorship. Ideology and propaganda · Germany state institutions 1897–1945
József Révai Révai József Overseer of culture in the Rákosi era Ideology and propaganda · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1898–1959
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1898–1979
Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin Павел Фёдорович Юдин Stalinist philosopher-diplomat who built orthodoxy, then incubated the foundations of Soviet cultural history Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1899–1968
Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева A Bolshevik woman who worked in Lenin's secretariat, married Stalin, and pursued her own political independence Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1932
Alexander Sergeyevich Shcherbakov Александр Сергеевич Щербаков Stalin's wartime propaganda chief and Moscow party boss, whose death became a spark for the Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1945
Hjalmar Mäe Hjalmar Mäe Estonian Vaps politician who headed the collaborationist Estonian Self-Administration under German occupation in 1941–1944 Government and administration 1901–1978
Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов Head of SMAD’s Propaganda Administration who drove the founding of the SED and the Sovietisation of eastern Germany Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1984
Mark Borisovich Mitin Марк Борисович Митин Stalin-era chief philosophical authority who installed dialectical materialism as state doctrine Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1987
Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov Фёдор Васильевич Константинов Chief editor of the 5-volume Philosophical Encyclopedia and architect of the standard Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosophy textbook Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1901–1991
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов The Kremlin's Grey Cardinal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1902–1982
Rudolf Herrnstadt Rudolf Herrnstadt Editor of Neues Deutschland who helped draft the 1953 New Course, moved against Ulbricht and was purged as a “faction” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1903–1966
Fred Oelßner Fred Oelßner Economist and the SED’s chief ideologue until 1958, when he was expelled from the Politburo in the Schirdewan affair Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1903–1977
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Арам Ильич Хачатурян Composer who fused Armenian folk melody with the Soviet symphony Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1903–1978
Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov Бонифатий Михайлович Кедров Philosopher of science who systematized dialectical materialism for natural science and created the Kedrov Triangle Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1903–1985
Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko Михаил Борисович Храпченко Soviet arts chief felled by the Zhdanov anti-formalism campaign, who rebuilt a career as a leading Gogol and Tolstoy scholar Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1904–1986

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