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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

Yaacov Ro'i יעקב רועי A historian linking Soviet social and Jewish histories Scholarship and theory 1932–
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
Theodore Merrill Vestal Theodore Vestal U.S. political scientist and Ethiopia specialist Scholarship and theory 1933–2023
Alexander Yevgenyevich Rabinowitch Alexander Evgen'evich Rabinowitch The revisionist historian who overturned the Cold War coup thesis with archival evidence Scholarship and theory 1934–2026
Martin McCauley Martin McCauley A British historian of modern Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1934–
Stanley G. Payne Stanley G. Payne America's most prominent historian arguing the Second Republic's radicalization brought on the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1934–
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
Alan S. Milward Alan S. Milward The British economic historian whose archival work recast postwar European recovery and integration Scholarship and theory 1935–2010
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–
Vojtech Mastny Vojtěch Mastný A historian who opened the Cold War archives 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
Ronald Radosh Ronald Radosh A historian whose break with communism led to conservative anti-communism Scholarship and theory 1937–
Archie Brown Archie Brown The British political scientist who argued Gorbachev's individual leadership was the decisive factor in transforming the Soviet system Scholarship and theory 1938–
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
Stephen F. Frand Cohen Stephen F. Cohen American Russia scholar who argued through Bukharin's biography that the Soviet Union had reformable alternatives and collapse was avoidable Scholarship and theory 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
Samuel Farber Samuel Farber American sociologist who reopened the debate on the Cuban Revolution Scholarship and theory 1939–
Graham Allison Graham Allison Political scientist whose analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis reshaped the study of foreign-policy decision-making Scholarship and theory 1940–
Ronald Grigor Suny Ronald Grigor Suny The historian who argued the USSR built nations, not destroyed them, the 'revenge of the past' thesis Scholarship and theory 1940–
Yang Jisheng 杨继绳 The Xinhua reporter who lost his father to the famine and, in Tombstone, documented 36 million Great Famine deaths Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of China 1940–
Ángel Viñas Ángel Viñas The Spanish Civil War historian who demolished Francoist myths with archival evidence Scholarship and theory 1941–
John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis The post-revisionist historian who, after the Soviet archives opened, argued Stalin bore primary responsibility for the Cold War Scholarship and theory 1941–
Paul R. Gregory Paul R. Gregory An economic historian who traced the bureaucracy of Soviet planning Scholarship and theory 1941–
Sebastian Balfour Sebastian Balfour British historian whose 'Castro' argued US hostility pushed Cuba toward socialism Scholarship and theory 1941–
Sheila Fitzpatrick Sheila Fitzpatrick Revisionist trailblazer who reconstructed Soviet social history 'from below' Scholarship and theory 1941–
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa 長谷川毅 A historian who recast the international history of Japan's surrender Scholarship and theory 1941–
Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov Валерий Александрович Тишков An ethnologist who challenged the nation as a fixed essence Scholarship and theory 1941–
William Chase Taubman William Chase Taubman A biographer who reshaped the study of Soviet leadership Scholarship and theory 1941–
Walter Rodney Walter Rodney Guyanese Marxist historian who demonstrated how Europe underdeveloped Africa, scholar-activist of the Pan-African revolution Scholarship and theory 1942–1980
Bruce Cumings Bruce Cumings The revisionist historian who recast the Korean War as fundamentally a civil war Scholarship and theory 1943–
Yuri Markovich Goland Юрий Маркович Голанд Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate Scholarship and theory 1943–
Angela Davis Angela Davis Marxist feminist philosopher who theorised the prison-industrial complex, co-founder of Critical Resistance Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1944–
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–
William Whitney Stueck William Stueck The US diplomatic historian who reframed the Korean War as a substitute for World War III and led the post-revisionist challenge to Cumings 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
Amy Knight Amy Knight The American historian whose Beria biography revealed the paradox of Stalin's executioner as unlikely reformer Scholarship and theory 1946–
David Kotz David M. Kotz A political economist of Soviet system change Scholarship and theory 1946–
Fred Halliday Fred Halliday Irish scholar of Middle East international politics and South Yemen Scholarship and theory 1946–2010
Bahru Zewde ባህሩ ዘውዴ Historian of modern Ethiopia Scholarship and theory 1947–
Richard B. Frank Richard B. Frank An archival military historian of the Pacific War Scholarship and theory 1947–
Richard Overy Richard Overy A historian who connects war’s military outcomes to its psychological meaning Scholarship and theory 1947–
Robert C. Allen Robert C. Allen The Oxford economic historian who reassessed Soviet industrialization as one of the most successful development stories of the 20th century Scholarship and theory 1947–
Robert Service Robert Service A contentious biographer of Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1947–
Stephen G. Wheatcroft Stephen G. Wheatcroft Australian economic historian who reconstructed Soviet famine and repression statistics from the archives Scholarship and theory 1947–

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