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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 7 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 7 Soviet Unionstate 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

All 8 affiliations

France

French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 7

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 7 Soviet Unionstate 4

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Socialist-bloc reform leader 6 Dissident 1 Anarchists 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 7 Narodniks 7 Russian revolutionary democrats 4 Marxism and communism 24 Liberalism and republicanism 2 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 55 Russia 44 United States 4 France 1 United Kingdom 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 105 United States 46 United Kingdom 28 Germany 11 France 8 China 7 Ukraine 6 Armenia 5 Hungary 5 Poland 5 Czechoslovakia 4 Georgia 4 Finland 3 Belarus 2 Croatia 2 Cuba 2 Czechia 2 Estonia 2 India 2 Ireland 2 Latvia 2 Lithuania 2 Spain 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Ethiopia 1 Guyana 1 Israel 1 Italy 1 Japan 1 Martinique 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Somalia 1 South Africa 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 22 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 11 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 10 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 16 The last generation1985–1991 10

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2 Scholars of this history1892–현재 32

Scholarship and theory Background: Russia Clear all

105 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Vadim Aleksandrovich Trapeznikov Вадим Александрович Трапезников An automation scientist who pressed technology toward economic reform Scholarship and theory 1905–1994
Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev Дмитрий Сергеевич Лихачёв Gulag survivor, world authority on Old Russian literature, moral conscience of late Soviet society Scholarship and theory 1906–1999
Alexander Vasilievich Korobov Александр Васильевич Коробов Gosplan career planner who served from wartime reconstruction through the Kosygin reform preparations Scholarship and theory 1907–1967
Yakov Abramovich Kronrod Яков Абрамович Кронрод Leader of the 'commodity school' in Soviet political economy who argued for the law of value and economic democracy Scholarship and theory 1912–1984
Isai Izrailevich Gurevich Исай Израилевич Гуревич A nuclear theorist who made reactor design possible Scholarship and theory 1912–1992
Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev Лев Николаевич Гумилёв Historian who reinvented Eurasianism with the theory of ethnogenesis and passionarity Scholarship and theory 1912–1992
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
Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1921–1982
Mikhail Ivanovich Semiryaga Михаил Иванович Семиряга Soviet military historian who first broke the official silence on Winter War casualties, revealing 53,522 dead Scholarship and theory 1922–2000
Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov Георгий Аркадьевич Арбатов The USSR's preeminent Americanist who built a think-tank on Arbat Street, not in Akademgorodok, and designed détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1923–2010
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kurnosov Владимир Александрович Курносов Author and technical director of the 'Shelter' that encased Chernobyl's ruined Reactor 4 Scholarship and theory 1926–1998
Alexandr Alexandrovich Fursenko Александр Александрович Фурсенко The historian who first reconstructed the Cuban Missile Crisis from Soviet archives Scholarship and theory 1927–2008
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya Татьяна Ивановна Заславская Founder of Soviet economic sociology; her 1983 report lit the intellectual fuse of perestroika Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1927–2013
Fyodor Mikhailovich Burlatsky Фёдор Михайлович Бурлацкий Architect of Khrushchev's reforms and pioneer of Soviet political science Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2014
Oleg Timofeyevich Bogomolov Олег Тимофеевич Богомолов An economist of socialist economic integration and reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1927–2015
Ivan Timofeyevich Frolov Иван Тимофеевич Фролов The philosopher who gave perestroika its humanist foundations: from defending genetics to founding the science of Man Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–1999
Yuly Yakovlevich Olsevich Юлий Яковлевич Ольсевич Soviet economist who identified two incompatible regulators, plan and quasi-market, as the core contradiction of the Kosygin reform Scholarship and theory 1929–2016
Grigori Fedotovich Krivosheyev Григорий Фёдорович Кривошеев The statistician who made Soviet war losses countable Scholarship and theory 1929–2019
Alexander Yevgenyevich Bovin Александр Евгеньевич Бовин Brezhnev's foreign-affairs speechwriter who put détente into prose, then became its sharpest television commentator Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1930–2004
Paul Avrich Paul Avrich Historian who pioneered the history of Russian and American anarchism Scholarship and theory 1931–2006
Alexandr Viktorovich Nemtsov Александр Викентьевич Немцов Russia's foremost alcohol epidemiologist, whose estimate that the anti-alcohol campaign saved over a million lives anchors the scholarship Scholarship and theory 1933–
Vladislav Alexandrovich Kutuzov Владислав Александрович Кутузов The Soviet historian who laid the foundation of Leningrad Affair studies Scholarship and theory 1933–2016
Yuri Nikolayevich Afanasyev Юрий Николаевич Афанасьев The historian who called the conservative majority 'aggressively obedient' Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1934–2015
Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin Евгений Григорьевич Ясин A liberal economist who helped design the transition from a planned to a market economy Scholarship and theory 1934–2023
Edvard Stanislavovich Radzinsky Эдвард Станиславович Радзинский A popular historian who reconstructed Russia’s tragedies through archives and drama Scholarship and theory 1936–
Leonid Yanovich Gibianskii Леонид Янович Гибианский The historian whose archival discoveries rewrote the study of the Tito-Stalin split Scholarship and theory 1936–
Grigory Isaakovich Khanin Григорий Исаакович Ханин The economist who exposed Soviet growth statistics as an 84-fold exaggeration and recalculated the real record Scholarship and theory 1937–
Nikolai Yakovlevich Petrakov Николай Яковлевич Петраков An economist who carried price theory into the transition to a market economy Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1937–2014
Nina Alexandrovna Andreyeva Нина Александровна Андреева The Leningrad chemistry lecturer whose 'I Cannot Forsake My Principles' became the manifesto of anti-perestroika forces Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1938–2020
Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov Юрий Николаевич Жуков A historian who reopened the question of responsibility in the Stalin era Scholarship and theory 1938–2023
Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov Валерий Александрович Тишков An ethnologist who challenged the nation as a fixed essence Scholarship and theory 1941–
Yuri Markovich Goland Юрий Маркович Голанд Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate Scholarship and theory 1943–
Evgeny Mikhailovich Andreev Евгений Михайлович Андреев A mathematical demographer who made mortality and life expectancy legible Scholarship and theory 1944–
Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznechevsky Владимир Дмитриевич Кузнечевский A historian who traces the Russian question through Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1944–
Nina Tumarkin Nina Tumarkin The preeminent chronicler of Soviet memory politics who traced the Lenin cult and the Great Patriotic War myth Scholarship and theory 1945–
Aleksandr Antonovich Lyakhovsky Александр Антонович Ляховский Russian general-major and insider historian of the Afghan war Scholarship and theory 1946–2009
Rustem Makhmutovich Nureyev Рустем Махмутович Нуреев The institutional economist who crystallized the 50-year debate over the Kosygin reform in a single book title Scholarship and theory 1950–2023
Gennady Vasilyevich Kostyrchenko Геннадий Васильевич Костырченко The archival historian of Stalin's state antisemitism who argued the 1953 deportation was a myth Scholarship and theory 1954–
Vladislav Martinovich Zubok Владислав Мартинович Зубок The Cold War historian who read the Soviet collapse as 'a perfect storm and a hapless captain': a man-made disaster Scholarship and theory 1958–
Nikolai Sergeyevich Simonov Николай Сергеевич Симонов The VPK's chronicler, the historian who dissected the Soviet military-industrial complex Scholarship and theory 1959–
Oleg Vitalyevich Khlevniuk Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк An archival historian of Stalin's political power Scholarship and theory 1959–
Sergei Viktorovich Iarov Сергей Викторович Яров A historian who widened the blockade story from heroism to everyday ethics Scholarship and theory 1959–2015
Leonid Anatolyevich Naumov Леонид Анатольевич Наумов The Moscow history teacher who read the Great Terror through its regional statistics Scholarship and theory 1961–
Yuri Mikhailovich Kilin Юрий Михайлович Килин A historian who recalculated the Winter War casualty record Scholarship and theory 1961–
Kirill Anatolyevich Boldovsky Кирилл Анатольевич Болдовский A historian tracing what the Leningrad Affair left unresolved Scholarship and theory 1963–
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Pyzhikov Александр Владимирович Пыжиков A historian of the 1950s-60s USSR and the Russian church schism Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1965–2019
Aleksandr Vladlenovich Shubin Александр Владленович Шубин A historian who reads the Soviet collapse as elite power struggle Scholarship and theory 1965–
Andrei Valerevich Sushkov Андрей Валерьевич Сушков Historian who advanced an alternative theory that corruption among Leningrad leaders provoked the late-Stalinist purge Scholarship and theory 1975–
Andrei Mikhailovich Markevich Андрей Михайлович Маркевич A quantitative reinterpreter of Russian economic history Scholarship and theory 1977–

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