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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 Unionstate 170 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Hungarystate 10 Nazi party and regime 9 United States state institutionsstate 6 Russian Empirestate 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6 East Germanystate 6

All 37 affiliations

Albania

Albaniastate 1

China

Communist Party of China 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 3

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 3 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germanystate 6

France

France state institutionsstate 4 French First Republic state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 3 Nazi party and regime 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Greece state institutionsstate 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 2 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Soviet Unionstate 170

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1

United States

United States state institutionsstate 6 Republican Party (United States) 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 1 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 6 Counter-revolutionary forces 10 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Socialist-bloc reform leader 3 Jacobins and French revolutionary radicals 1 Fascists and Nazis 12 Marxism and communism 193 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Monarchy and royalism 1

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 169 Germany 10 Hungary 10 Russia 8 East Germany 7 United States 6 France 5 China 3 Czechoslovakia 3 Poland 2 Albania 1 Greece 1 Japan 1 Latvia 1 Madagascar 1 Romania 1 Somalia 1 Spain 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Russia 110 Ukraine 19 Germany 16 Georgia 11 Poland 11 Belarus 10 Hungary 9 France 6 Latvia 6 United States 6 Lithuania 4 China 3 Armenia 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Albania 1 East Germany 1 Estonia 1 Greece 1 Japan 1 Korea 1 Madagascar 1 Romania 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 Somalia 1 Spain 1 Turkey 1 Uzbekistan 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 24 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 111 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 26 The last generation1985–1991 10

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 3

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 24 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 26

Security, intelligence and policing

232 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Jean-Pierre-André Amar Jean-Pierre-André Amar Committee of General Security member who reported the ban on women’s clubs Security, intelligence and policing · French First Republic state institutions 1755–1816
Georges Clemenceau Georges Clemenceau Radical French prime minister at the end of the First World War who pressed harsh terms on Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference Political and party leadership · France state institutions 1841–1929
Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo Пётр Николаевич Дурново The imperial interior minister who crushed the 1905 Revolution and foretold Russia's collapse in the Great War Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1845–1915
Raoul Rigault Raoul Rigault Blanquist revolutionary and head of the Paris Commune police Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions 1846–1871
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve Вячеслав Константинович фон Плеве The last hardline Interior Minister of tsarism, who urged a "small victorious war" to hold back revolution Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1846–1904
Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov Дмитрий Фёдорович Трепов The face of 1905: repression orders in one hand, reform promises in the other Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1855–1906
Robert Emil Eichhorn Robert Emil Eichhorn German Social Democratic and Independent Social Democratic politician who headed Berlin police in 1918 Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions 1863–1925
Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov Сергей Васильевич Зубатов The police administrator who tried to tame the labor movement from inside the Tsarist system Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1864–1917
Vladimir Fyodorovich Dzhunkovsky Владимир Фёдорович Джунковский The last gendarme chief who reformed the Okhrana and warned the Tsar about Rasputin Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1865–1938
Alexander Pavlovich Balk Александр Павлович Балк Last Petrograd city governor of imperial Russia, the police official who faced the February Revolution's tide Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire 1866–1957
Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky Моисей Соломонович Урицкий The Petrograd Cheka chairman who resisted the terror, and became its trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1873–1918
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский Dzerzhinsky’s successor who ran OGPU from a sickbed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1874–1934
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Feliks Dzierżyński “Iron Felix”: the ascetic who forged the revolution’s sword Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1877–1926
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky Яков Михайлович Юровский The Cheka executioner who personally shot the last Tsar Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1938
Jean Chiappe Jean Chiappe The Paris prefect of police, hard on the left and indulgent to the leagues, whose dismissal lit the fuse of 6 February Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions 1878–1940
Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov Михаил Сергеевич Кедров Old Bolshevik who led the Cheka Special Department, building the Red Terror in the North and the earliest Soviet camp system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1878–1941
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii Глеб Иванович Бокий Father of Soviet signals intelligence and founder of the Cheka Special Department Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1937
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1938
Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions 1882–1940
Abram Yakovlevich Belenky Абрам Яковлевич Беленький Cheka founding member who guarded Lenin personally Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1882–1941
Terenty Dmitriyevich Deribas Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас The security viceroy of the Far East Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1883–1938
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser Меер Абрамович Трилиссер Architect of Soviet foreign intelligence: seven years that built the INO Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1883–1940
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel Нафталий Аронович Френкель From prisoner to directorate chief, and dead in his own bed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1883–1960
Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov Иван Ксенофонтович Ксенофонтов The Cheka's perpetual number two who built its revolutionary tribunal system Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1884–1926
Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921 Military command · Soviet Union 1884–1927
Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1884–1944
Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky Соломон Григорьевич Могилевский First chief of Soviet foreign intelligence: eight months that laid the INO foundation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1885–1925
Yakov Khristoforovich Peters Яков Христофорович Петерс Founding deputy chairman of the Cheka, Honorary Chekist No. 2 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed Government and administration · Hungary 1886–1967
Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed Government and administration · Soviet Union 1888–1928
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Martin Ivanovich Lācis Mārtiņš Lācis Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and theorist of class-based Red Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1888–1938
Karl Jäger Karl Jäger Commander of Einsatzkommando 3 who directed the murder of Lithuania’s Jews and tallied it in the Jäger Report Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1888–1959
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender Military command · Nazi party and regime 1888–1971
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan Лазарь Иосифович Коган The Gulag's first chief and builder of Belomor Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1939
Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1939
Lev Nikolayevich Belsky Лев Николаевич Бельский The deputy commissar who ran the Soviet police Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1941
Yuvelian Davidovich Sumbatov-Topuridze Ювельян Давидович Сумбатов-Топуридзе Azerbaijan's people's commissar of internal affairs in the mass operations, arrested in the Beria case Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1889–1960
Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror Military command · Hungary 1890–1919
Artur Karlovich Stashevsky Артур Карлович Сташевский The Soviet trade representative who sent Republican Spain's gold to Moscow Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1890–1937
Stanislav Adamovich Messing Станислав Адамович Мессинг Dzerzhinsky's Polish comrade, a Cheka founding pillar who defied Yagoda's fabrications Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1890–1937
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1937
Alexander Georgiyevich Beloborodov Александр Георгиевич Белобородов NKVD chief who signed the Romanov execution and joined the Left Opposition Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1938
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda Генрих Григорьевич Ягода The NKVD chief who expanded the Gulag and became a purge defendant Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1938
Yefim Georgiyevich Yevdokimov Ефим Георгиевич Евдокимов Architect of the Shakhty case and boss of the North Caucasus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1891–1940
József Cserny Cserny József Communist paramilitary commander who led the Lenin Boys and was a leading participant in the Red Terror of 1919 Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1892–1919
Vsevolod Apollonovich Balitsky Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий The master of the Ukrainian security apparatus Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1937
Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1938
Stanislav Frantsevich Redens Станислав Францевич Реденс Stalin's brother-in-law who chaired the Moscow troika Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1892–1940
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko Степан Максимович Петриченко The sailor who led the Kronstadt rebellion, became a Soviet spy, and died in a camp Political and party leadership · Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1892–1947

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