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People

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 Communist Party and Bolsheviks 13 Soviet Unionstate 9 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 7 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 5 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3 Turkey state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party of China 2

All 21 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 2

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1

East Germany

East Germanystate 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 3

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Russia

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

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 13 Soviet Unionstate 9

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 2

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3

United States

Socialist Party of America 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 2 Left critics of Bolshevism 4 Socialist-bloc reform leader 8 Dissident 4 Anarchists 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 14 Narodniks 7 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Russian revolutionary democrats 4 Western Marxist theorists 10 Marxism and communism 44 Early socialism 3 Revolutionary socialism 1 Liberalism and republicanism 8 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1 Nationalism 6

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 70 United States 67 Russia 47 United Kingdom 30 France 10 Germany 8 China 6 Czechoslovakia 4 Hungary 4 Ukraine 3 Finland 2 Israel 2 Poland 2 Spain 2 Yugoslavia 2 Albania 1 Australia 1 Austria 1 Belarus 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Cuba 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Ethiopia 1 Guyana 1 Ireland 1 Italy 1 Lithuania 1 Netherlands 1 Portugal 1 Somalia 1 Switzerland 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1

Background

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 23 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 13 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 19 The last generation1985–1991 12

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 2 People of the Mao era1949–1976 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 13 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 17 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 11 Scholars of this history1892–현재 151

Scholarship and theory

278 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev Платон Михайлович Керженцев Proletkult theorist who became architect of Stalin-era arts censorship Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1881–1940
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky Павел Александрович Флоренский Russian Orthodox priest-theologian who worked on Soviet electrification while wearing his cassock Religion · Russian Orthodox Church 1882–1937
Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev Алексей Капитонович Гастев From proletarian poetry to the science of labour: founder of Soviet social engineering who trained half a million workers Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1882–1939
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov Николай Николаевич Суханов Author of 'Notes on the Revolution' and agrarian economist in whose apartment the Bolshevik CC voted for armed uprising Scholarship and theory · Mensheviks (RSDLP) 1882–1940
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
Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War Military command · Soviet Union 1883–1936
Vaclau Lastouski Вацлаў Ластоўскі Historian who headed the government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in exile, moved to Soviet Byelorussia and was executed Government and administration · Belarus state institutions 1883–1938
John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes British economist who left the Treasury in protest at the peace treaty and warned of the damage reparations would do Scholarship and theory · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1946
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin Иван Александрович Ильин Hegelian legal philosopher who deemed October a 'national catastrophe' and became a White émigré ideologue Law and justice 1883–1954
György Lukács Lukács György Founder of Western Marxism: the Hungarian thinker who reoriented 20th-century Marxist philosophy with History and Class Consciousness Scholarship and theory · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1885–1971
Ernst Bloch Ernst Bloch Philosopher of the not-yet: thinker of concrete utopia and human emancipation in The Principle of Hope Scholarship and theory 1885–1977
Yevgeni Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky Евгений Алексеевич Преображенский The theorist of primitive socialist accumulation Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1886–1937
Karl Korsch Karl Korsch Co-founder of Western Marxism, the German philosopher who challenged Marxist orthodoxy with Marxism and Philosophy Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1886–1961
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Питирим Александрович Сорокин SR leader imprisoned by both Tsar and Bolsheviks, who became founder of Harvard's sociology department Scholarship and theory · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1889–1968
Jüri Uluots Jüri Uluots Law professor and Estonia’s last constitutional prime minister who, acting as president, formed the Tief government in 1944 Government and administration · Estonia state institutions 1890–1945
Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1970
Hu Shih 胡适 The liberal of the New Culture Movement who led the vernacular-language campaign and later served the Nationalists as a diplomat Scholarship and theory 1891–1962
Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin Frankfurt School's spectral companion, Marxist critic who dissected capitalist culture through the lens of mechanical reproduction Scholarship and theory 1892–1940
E. H. Carr E. H. Carr Author of the 14-volume History of Soviet Russia; diagnosed a "latent incompatibility" between NEP markets and planning Scholarship and theory 1892–1982
Dmitry Ivanovich Shcherbakov Дмитрий Иванович Щербаков A geologist who helped design the Soviet uranium search Scholarship and theory 1893–1966
Genrikh Khristoforovich Eiche Генрих Христофорович Эйхе Red commander who drove Kolchak's retreat to its collapse Scholarship and theory 1893–1968
Tsiang Tingfu 蒋廷黻 The Nationalist diplomat whose presence at the Security Council table triggered the Soviet walkout Diplomacy and international organization · Kuomintang 1895–1965
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin Михаил Михайлович Бахтин Philosopher of dialogue and carnival, returned after thirty years of oblivion Scholarship and theory 1895–1975
Boris Konstantinovich Souvarine Boris Souvarine The only non-Bolshevik on all three leading Comintern bodies. And author of the first critical Stalin biography. Scholarship and theory · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1895–1984
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky Лев Семёнович Выготский Founder of cultural-historical psychology, Marxist psychologist who developed the zone of proximal development Scholarship and theory 1896–1934
Boris Ignatyevich Arvatov Борис Игнатьевич Арватов The Saint-Just of the avant-garde, theorist of production art Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1940
Sofia Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya Софья Александровна Яновская Bolshevik mathematician who resurrected mathematical logic in the Soviet Union Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1896–1966
Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1897–1957
Yevsei Grigoryevich Liberman Евсей Григорьевич Либерман Theoretical catalyst of the 1965 Soviet economic reform Scholarship and theory 1897–1981
Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse Frankfurt School philosopher and the pre-eminent theorist of the 1960s New Left Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1898–1979
Jan Ernestovich Sten Ян Эрнестович Стэн Marxist philosopher who went from Stalin's Hegel tutor to Right Opposition conspirator Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1899–1937
Michał Kalecki Michał Kalecki The Marxist macroeconomist who formalized effective demand before Keynes Scholarship and theory 1899–1970
Boris Aleksandrovich Chagin Борис Александрович Чагин The doyen of Soviet Marxist history of philosophy who alone survived his institute's purge Scholarship and theory 1899–1987
James Martin Stagg James Martin Stagg The meteorologist whose forecast shaped an invasion Scholarship and theory 1900–1975
Nikolai Karotamm Nikolai Karotamm First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party in 1944–1950, removed in 1950 for allegedly shielding “bourgeois nationalists” Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1969
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
C. L. R. Lionel Robert James C. L. R. James The Trinidadian Trotskyist and Pan-Africanist intellectual who revived the Haitian Revolution for Marxist historiography Scholarship and theory · Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1901–1989
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
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
Solly Zuckerman Solly Zuckerman The scientific adviser who made bombing a field of operational research Scholarship and theory 1904–1993
George F. Kennan George F. Kennan The American diplomat and historian whose 1946 Long Telegram and X article laid the intellectual foundations of containment Scholarship and theory 1904–2005
Mikhail Alexandrovich Lifshitz Михаил Александрович Лифшиц Builder of Marxist aesthetics who defended absolute truth and beauty against relativism Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1905–1983
Alexei Matveyevich Rumyantsev Алексей Матвеевич Румянцев The political economist who opened Khrushchev's economic debate, and institutional founder of Soviet sociology Scholarship and theory · Soviet Union 1905–1993
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
Isaac Deutscher Isaac Deutscher Marxist historian of Trotsky's definitive biography, who coined the 'non-Jewish Jew' Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1907–1967
Jan Patočka Jan Patočka A phenomenologist who turned care for truth into civic action Scholarship and theory 1907–1977
Wu Han 吴晗 Ming historian and Beijing vice-mayor whose play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office became the fuse of the Cultural Revolution Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of China 1909–1969
Burnett Bolloten Burnett Bolloten A painstaking archival historian of the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1909–1987

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