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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

Chen Boda 陈伯达 Mao’s political secretary and the codifier of “Mao Zedong Thought”, head of the Cultural Revolution Group until his fall in 1970 Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1904–1989
Anton Ackermann Anton Ackermann German communist who drafted the KPD’s 1945 appeal and argued for a “special German road to socialism” Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1905–1973
Najati Sidqi نجاتي صدقي Palestinian activist linking anti-colonialism and anti-fascism Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1905–1979
Vladimir Semyonovich Kruzhkov Владимир Семёнович Кружков The ideology bureaucrat who co-wrote Stalin's biography, enforced the Zhdanov line, and fell in a sex scandal Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1905–1991
Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev Борис Николаевич Пономарёв The party international chief who managed the communist line abroad Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1995
Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov Дмитрий Трофимович Шепилов Khrushchev’s theoretician who became “Shepilov who joined them” Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1905–1995
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
Rezső Kasztner Kasztner Rezső Zionist lawyer who negotiated with Eichmann to send 1,684 Jews to Switzerland on what became known as the Kasztner train Social movements and organizing 1906–1957
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov Николай Александрович Михайлов Stalin's youth mobilizer turned Thaw-era Culture Minister, a party apparatus survivor Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1906–1982
Leonid Fyodorovich Ilyichev Леонид Фёдорович Ильичёв Khrushchev's chief ideologue: the philosopher who edited both Pravda and Izvestia, then designed the anti-religious campaign Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1906–1990
Georgy Fyodorovich Alexandrov Георгий Фёдорович Александров Stalin's chief ideological supervisor, broken by a philosophy debate Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1908–1961
Pyotr Nikolayevich Fedoseyev Пётр Николаевич Федосеев The philosophical administrator of the Soviet ideological apparatus Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1908–1990
Alexei Vladimirovich Romanov Алексей Владимирович Романов The Goskino chairman who harvested Politburo phone calls every Monday and enforced cuts he didn't always believe in Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1908–1998
Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева Long-serving culture minister between thaw and control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1910–1974
Deng Tuo 邓拓 People’s Daily editor whose Evening Chats at Yanshan were read as satire of the Great Leap, the Cultural Revolution’s first victim Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1912–1966
Sergei Pavlovich Trapeznikov Сергей Павлович Трапезников The gatekeeper of academic orthodoxy in the Brezhnev era Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1912–1984
Vladimir Ilyich Stepakov Владимир Ильич Степаков Brezhnev-era Agitprop chief removed over a misattributed Lenin quote Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1912–1987
Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin Сергей Георгиевич Лапин Brezhnev's broadcasting czar who ran all Soviet TV and radio for 15 years Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1912–1990
Vasily Filimonovich Shauro Василий Филимонович Шауро The 'Great Mute' who presided as the party's gatekeeper of Soviet culture for 21 years Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1912–2007
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
Jiang Qing 江青 From the Shanghai stage to the pinnacle of the Cultural Revolution: Mao's wife who led the Gang of Four and remade Chinese revolutionary art Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1914–1991
Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin Михаил Васильевич Зимянин Brezhnev's 'number two party ideologist' after Suslov Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1914–1995
Géza Losonczy Losonczy Géza A reform communist journalist Ideology and propaganda · Hungary 1917–1957
Zhang Chunqiao 张春桥 Theoretician of the Gang of Four who organized the Shanghai People's Commune and championed all-round dictatorship over the bourgeoisie Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1917–2005
Pyotr Nilovich Demichev Пётр Нилович Демичев A Brezhnev-era manager of cultural policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1917–2010
Adolfas Ramanauskas Adolfas Ramanauskas Partisan commander “Vanagas” who led the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters from 1952, the last commander to be captured Military command 1918–1957
Lev Nikolayevich Tolkunov Лев Николаевич Толкунов From Izvestia editor to Soviet of the Union chairman: a Brezhnev-era media mandarin who became the face of the supreme legislature Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1919–1989
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector Education · Soviet Union 1919–2006
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1920–2011
Juozas Lukša Juozas Lukša Lithuanian partisan leader who crossed the Iron Curtain in 1947 to seek Western support and was killed by the MGB after returning Military command 1921–1951
Wolfgang Leonhard Wolfgang Leonhard Youngest member of the Ulbricht Group who fled to Yugoslavia in 1949 and became a leading Western scholar of Soviet communism Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1921–2014
Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1922–1994
Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin Леонид Митрофанович Замятин Information architect of the Brezhnev system Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1922–2019
Filipp Timofeyevich Yermash Филипп Тимофеевич Ермаш The party functionary who ran Soviet cinema as a state Hollywood: blockbusters, Oscars, and ideological control Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1923–2002
Boris Ivanovich Stukalin Борис Иванович Стукалин Brezhnev-era chief of all Soviet publishing and censorship Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2004
Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev Александр Николаевич Яковлев The architect of glasnost: the ideology chief who dismantled the ideology Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1923–2005
Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Эвальд Васильевич Ильенков A Soviet European who excavated dialectical logic from Marx's Capital Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1924–1979
Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubey Алексей Иванович Аджубей Khrushchev's son-in-law and the editor who turned Izvestia into the most-read Soviet newspaper of the thaw Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1924–1993
Karen Nersesovich Brutents Карен Нерсесович Брутенц The International Department theorist who designed Soviet Third World policy under Brezhnev Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1924–2017
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov Юрий Фёдорович Орлов The physicist who held the Kremlin to the Helsinki human-rights promises it signed Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1924–2020
Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon The psychiatrist who diagnosed colonialism itself as the disease Scholarship and theory · National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1925–1961
Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1927–2006
Günter Schabowski Günter Schabowski The East German Politburo spokesman whose mistake brought down the Berlin Wall Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1929–2015
Albert Tévoédjrè Albert Tévoédjrè Writer and economist, rapporteur of Benin's National Conference Ideology and propaganda · Benin 1929–2019
Vadim Andreyevich Medvedev Вадим Андреевич Медведев The last ideology secretary who dismantled ideology opened the spetskhran and abolished party orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1929–2025
Richard Ivanovich Kosolapov Ричард Иванович Косолапов Principal architect of the Brezhnev-era 'developed socialism' doctrine Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1930–2020
Yao Wenyuan 姚文元 The Gang of Four’s theorist whose attack on Hai Rui Dismissed from Office opened the Cultural Revolution; the critic nicknamed “the cudgel” Ideology and propaganda · People’s Republic of China 1931–2005
Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan Ստեփան Կարապետի Պողոսյան The last leader of Armenia's Communist Party before the Soviet collapse Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1932–2012
Imre Pozsgay Pozsgay Imre The reformist Politburo member who called 1956 a 'popular uprising' and dismantled his own party's orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Hungary 1933–2016
Alexander Sergeyevich Dzasokhov Александр Сергеевич Дзасохов A politician who linked internationalism with regional rule Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union 1934–

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