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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 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

István Bibó Bibó István A political thinker who analyzed democracy and the crises of states Scholarship and theory 1911–1979
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
Gordon Skilling Harold Gordon Skilling The Canadian political scientist who chronicled the Prague Spring Scholarship and theory 1912–2001
Vladimir Žerjavić Vladimir Žerjavić The demographer who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses Scholarship and theory 1912–2001
Charles Bettelheim Charles Bettelheim French Marxist economist who theorized the USSR as state capitalism and shaped Third World development economics Scholarship and theory · French Communist Party (PCF) 1913–2006
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
Arthur M. Schlesinger Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A liberal historian who became an insider chronicler of power Scholarship and theory 1917–2007
Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm Historian of revolution’s social foundations and later memory Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1917–2012
Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest A Cold War historian who dissected the Stalin era Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1917–2015
Louis Pierre Althusser Louis Althusser The thinker who found a new continent in Marx: founder of structural Marxism Scholarship and theory · French Communist Party (PCF) 1918–1990
Israel Getzler ישראל גצלר Historian who interpreted the Kronstadt uprising as the last stand of Soviet democracy Scholarship and theory 1920–2012
Bogoljub Kočović Bogoljub Kočović An independent statistician who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses Scholarship and theory 1920–2013
Claudio Pavone Claudio Pavone A historian who clarified the Resistance's moral choices and the war's layered character Scholarship and theory 1920–2016
Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1921–1982
Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson An American historian who interpreted the Spanish Republic and Civil War Scholarship and theory 1921–2019
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
Richard Edgar Pipes Richard Pipes The Cold War's leading conservative interpreter of Russian history who framed October as a coup Scholarship and theory 1923–2018
Radovan Richta Radovan Richta Czech Marxist philosopher who coined the phrase "socialism with a human face" Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1924–1983
Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov Георгий Хосроевич Шахназаров Founder of Soviet political science and brains of perestroika's political reform Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1924–2001
Martin Edward Malia Martin Edward Malia A historian who forecast the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1924–2004
Stuart Schram Stuart R. Schram Pioneer of Mao studies, author of The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung and editor of the ten-volume Mao’s Road to Power Scholarship and theory 1924–2012
Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon The psychiatrist who diagnosed colonialism itself as the disease Scholarship and theory · National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1925–1961
Zhores Alexandrovich Medvedev Жорес Александрович Медведев The dissident biologist who argued the archives contain no evidence Stalin planned a Jewish deportation Scholarship and theory 1925–2018
Robert W. Davies Robert W. Davies The British economic historian who built the seven-volume chronicle of Soviet industrialisation Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1925–2021
Roy Alexandrovich Medvedev Рой Александрович Медведев The Marxist historian who put Stalinism on trial Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1925–2026
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
Karel Kosík Karel Kosík A non-dogmatic Marxist who reflected on the Prague Spring Scholarship and theory 1926–2003
Pierre Broué Pierre Broué A committed historian of revolutionary movements Scholarship and theory 1926–2005
Robert Vincent Daniels Robert Vincent Daniels A historian who traced revolutionary pluralism and the making of Stalinism Scholarship and theory 1926–2010
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
Sergo Anastasi Mikoyan Серго Анастасович Микоян A historian who reconstructed the Cold War’s hidden record Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1929–2010
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
Vladimir Treml Vladimir Treml A scholar who quantified the Soviet economy's hidden flows Scholarship and theory 1929–2018
Grigori Fedotovich Krivosheyev Григорий Фёдорович Кривошеев The statistician who made Soviet war losses countable Scholarship and theory 1929–2019
Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili Мераб Константинович Мамардашвили The philosopher who spoke consciousness aloud Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1930–1990
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
Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick MacFarquhar Harvard sinologist whose Origins of the Cultural Revolution trilogy and Mao’s Last Revolution dissected China’s elite politics Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1930–2019
Paul Avrich Paul Avrich Historian who pioneered the history of Russian and American anarchism Scholarship and theory 1931–2006
Maurice Meisner Maurice Meisner Historian whose Mao’s China and After judged the Chinese revolution critically from within the Marxist tradition Scholarship and theory 1931–2012
Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas The historian who made the Spanish Civil War a global narrative Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1931–2017
Abel Gezevich Aganbegyan Абел Гезевич Аганбегян Gorbachev's chief economic adviser and the market-reform architect of perestroika Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1932–
Robert Owen Paxton Robert Owen Paxton The historian who recast Vichy collaboration Scholarship and theory 1932–

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