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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

Pío Moa Pío Moa Former Maoist urban guerrilla turned Francoist revisionist historian who reignited Spain's Civil War debates Scholarship and theory 1948–
Jonathan Brent Jonathan Brent American historian and publisher who documented Stalin's last conspiracy Scholarship and theory 1949–
Marifeli Pérez-Stable Marifeli Pérez-Stable Cuban-born US sociologist and historian of the Cuban Revolution Scholarship and theory 1949–
Mark Harrison Mark Harrison the British economic historian whose three-position taxonomy of NEP's failure shaped the historiographical debate Scholarship and theory 1949–
J. Arch Getty J. Arch Getty A revisionist historian of Soviet political history Scholarship and theory 1950–2025
Jan Pauer Jan Pauer The historian who interpreted the Prague Spring between the tanks and the memory wars Scholarship and theory 1950–
Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs An archival journalist who reconstructed the Cold War's most dangerous crises Scholarship and theory 1950–
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
Shen Zhihua 沈志华 A historian who reread Sino-Soviet relations through Cold War archives Scholarship and theory 1950–
Vladimir Kontorovich Владимир Конторович Economic historian who argued partial reform would only destroy the planning system Scholarship and theory 1950–
Vladimir Tismăneanu Vladimir Tismăneanu Romanian-American political scientist and authority on the 1989 revolutions Scholarship and theory 1951–
Barry Eichengreen Barry Eichengreen An economist who reads international monetary order through history Scholarship and theory 1952–
Bernd Jürgen Fischer Bernd Jürgen Fischer Balkan historian whose Albania at War brought Albania's wartime experience into European historiography Scholarship and theory 1952–
Dalila Cabrita Mateus Dalila Cabrita Mateus Portuguese historian of the colonial war and of Angola's 1977 purge Scholarship and theory 1952–2014
David Marples David Marples A historian connecting Chernobyl to modern Eastern European history Scholarship and theory 1952–
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama The scholar who read 1989 as liberal democracy's endpoint Scholarship and theory 1952–
Frederick Kempe Frederick Kempe A journalist-historian of Cold War crises Scholarship and theory 1954–
Gao Hua 高华 Nanjing University historian whose How the Red Sun Rose dissected the Yan’an rectification movement Scholarship and theory 1954–2011
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–
Henry Rousso Henry Rousso A historian who reshaped the history of Vichy and wartime memory Scholarship and theory 1954–
Julian Jackson Julian Jackson A historian who clarified the political conflicts of modern France Scholarship and theory 1954–
Mark N. Katz Mark N. Katz A scholar who reread war after withdrawal Scholarship and theory 1954–
Mark R. Beissinger Mark R. Beissinger Political scientist who argued the Soviet collapse was produced by the event-driven tide of nationalism, not structural inevitability Scholarship and theory 1954–
Edward W. Walker Edward W. Walker A political scientist who analyzed Soviet dissolution through the paradoxes of federalism Scholarship and theory 1955–
Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash British historian who coined 'refolution' to define the peaceful revolutions of 1989 Scholarship and theory 1955–
Vasyl Marochko Василь Марочко A historian of the Holodomor’s mechanisms and memory Scholarship and theory 1956–
Csaba Békés Békés Csaba A historian who placed 1956 within Cold War international politics Scholarship and theory 1957–
Rafael Reuveny Rafael Reuveny Israeli-born political economist who established the causal-mechanism framework linking the Soviet-Afghan war to the USSR's collapse Scholarship and theory 1957–
Serhii Mykolayovych Plokhy Сергій Миколайович Плохій Harvard historian who argued Chernobyl was a direct cause of the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1957–
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–
Helen Graham Helen Graham The British historian who named the Spanish Civil War 'the war before the lights went out' Scholarship and theory 1959–
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–
Orlando Figes Orlando Figes A historian who wove revolutionary social history into human experience 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
Stephen Mark Kotkin Stephen Mark Kotkin The structural analyst of the Soviet collapse who argued the system was not dying Scholarship and theory 1959–
Anatol Paul Lieven Peter Paul Anatol Lieven The historian-journalist who chronicled Baltic independence Scholarship and theory 1960–
Frank Dikötter Frank Dikötter Author of the “People’s Trilogy”, who used provincial party archives to put the Great Famine’s death toll at 45 million Scholarship and theory 1961–
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–
Hope M. Harrison Hope M. Harrison A Cold War historian who recast the Berlin Wall's origins Scholarship and theory 1963–
Kirill Anatolyevich Boldovsky Кирилл Анатольевич Болдовский A historian tracing what the Leningrad Affair left unresolved Scholarship and theory 1963–
Terry Martin Terry Martin The historian who redefined the USSR as an 'affirmative action empire' rather than a 'prison of nations' Scholarship and theory 1963–
Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum A historian of Soviet and Eastern European memory Scholarship and theory 1964–
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–
Ivan Yotov Krastev Иван Йотов Кръстев Bulgarian political thinker who argued that the post-1989 imperative to imitate the West bred illiberal backlash in Eastern Europe Scholarship and theory 1965–
Kate Brown Kate Brown Environmental historian who traced Chernobyl's concealed death toll Scholarship and theory 1965–
Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore A historian of power's intimate worlds Scholarship and theory 1965–
Asif Siddiqi Asif Siddiqi The Bangladeshi-American historian who founded the modern archival study of the Soviet space program Scholarship and theory 1966–

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