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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 139 Government and administration 40 Legislature and state representation 6 Monarchs and royalty 4 Military command 211 Security, intelligence and policing 110 Diplomacy and international organization 44 Economy, finance and planning 94 Industry and production 84 Agriculture and land policy 18 Ideology and propaganda 56 Social movements and organizing 179 Scholarship and theory 105 Education 8 Science and technology 108 Literature and arts 79 Religion 4 Law and justice 31

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 723 Soviet Union state institutions 706 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 107 Russian Empire state institutions 49 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 29 Russian White movement 17 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 11 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 10

All 41 affiliations

France

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

Germany

Nazi party and regime 2 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 8 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 1

Position

Any Imperial establishment and White movement 66 Counter-revolutionary forces 4 Left critics of Bolshevism 30 Socialist-bloc reform leader 17 Dissident 7 Anarchists 10 Non-Bolshevik socialists 30 Narodniks 17 Russian revolutionary democrats 6 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 846 Liberalism and republicanism 3 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2 Monarchy and royalism 1 Nationalism 2

Citizenship

Any Soviet Union 951 Russia 177 United States 7 France 1 Germany 1 United Kingdom 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 1139 Germany 136 United States 128 France 125 Ukraine 120 Poland 96 Hungary 86 China 72 United Kingdom 62 Belarus 56 Latvia 43 Georgia 42 Armenia 35 Lithuania 30 Estonia 28 Finland 27 Czechia 25 Japan 25 Spain 21 Azerbaijan 19 Italy 19 Romania 15 Vietnam 15 Czechoslovakia 13 Moldova 13 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 12 Greece 11 Angola 10 Bulgaria 10 Korea 10 Serbia 10 Uzbekistan 10 Cambodia 9 Cuba 9 Albania 8 Austria 8 Yemen 8 Congo - Brazzaville 7 Croatia 7 Kazakhstan 7 Mongolia 7 Turkey 7 Ethiopia 6 Kyrgyzstan 6 Slovakia 6 Afghanistan 5 India 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 South Africa 5 Benin 4 Ireland 4 Somalia 4 Tajikistan 4 Turkmenistan 4 Belgium 3 Chile 3 Indonesia 3 Mozambique 3 Netherlands 3 Switzerland 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Brazil 2 East Germany 2 Martinique 2 Montenegro 2 Slovenia 2 Argentina 1 Australia 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Burkina Faso 1 Canada 1 DR Congo 1 Egypt 1 El Salvador 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guinea-Bissau 1 Guyana 1 Iran 1 Israel 1 Myanmar 1 New Zealand 1 Nicaragua 1 Palestine 1 Peru 1 Portugal 1 South Korea 1 Sweden 1 Tanzania 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 130 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 188 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 328 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 306 The last generation1985–1991 131

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 9 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 11 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 2 Scholars of this history1892–현재 34

Background: Russia

1139 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov Николай Васильевич Огарков The Chief of Staff who foresaw a revolution in military affairs and opposed the Afghan invasion Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–1994
Vadim Aleksandrovich Matrosov Вадим Александрович Матросов The military axis of the KGB: 17 years commanding the border army Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–1999
Vasily Pavlovich Mishin Василий Павлович Мишин Korolev's successor who delivered Soyuz and Salyut, and bore the N-1 lunar failure Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2001
Vasily Sergeyevich Tolstikov Василий Сергеевич Толстиков Leningrad party leader during the Thaw who became ambassador to China Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1917–2003
Nikolai Prokofyevich Fedorenko Николай Прокофьевич Федоренко Founder of CEMI and architect of SOFE: the mathematician who tried to redesign the planned economy Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2006
Pyotr Nilovich Demichev Пётр Нилович Демичев A Brezhnev-era manager of cultural policy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2010
Vasily Ivanovich Petrov Василий Иванович Петров Commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces who led the Soviet operation in the Ogaden War, the last marshal forged in combat Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1917–2014
Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov Фёдор Давыдович Кулаков Agriculture secretary seen as a Brezhnev successor whose sudden death opened the seat for Gorbachev Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1918–1978
Igor Demyanovich Statsenko Игорь Демьянович Стаценко Commander of the 51st Missile Division that deployed R-12 missiles to Cuba Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1987
Fyodor Konstantinovich Mortin Фёдор Константинович Мортин Sakharovsky's 13-year right hand and the short-lived PGU chief of early détente Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1990
Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1993
Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin Александр Николаевич Шелепин The Komsomol boss who took over the KGB Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1994
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kochemasov Вячеслав Иванович Кочемасов The last Soviet ambassador to watch the GDR dissolve Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1998
Nikolai Timofeevich Glushkov Николай Тимофеевич Глушков Brezhnev-era chief price administrator who oversaw every official price in the USSR for 11 years Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–1999
Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev Сергей Александрович Афанасьев Long-serving minister of missile and space industry Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2001
Ivan Kirillovich Yakovlev Иван Кириллович Яковлев The MVD general who turned the Internal Troops into a mobile strike force and sealed Chernobyl Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2002
Sergei Sergeevich Kryukov Сергей Сергеевич Крюков Korolev's key partner in shaping the R-7's packet design Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2005
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Александр Исаевич Солженицын Prisoner Shch-854, who told the world about the Archipelago Literature and arts 1918–2008
Timofey Borisovich Guzhenko Тимофей Борисович Гуженко The merchant marine minister who conquered the Arctic with a nuclear icebreaker fleet Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2008
Viktor Vladimirovich Dementsev Виктор Владимирович Деменцев A fiscal realist who warned against abrupt prohibition Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2010
Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyayev Евгений Георгиевич Пепеляев A Soviet ace of MiG Alley Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2013
Boris Yevgenyevich Paton Борис Евгеньевич Патон Father of electroslag welding who led Ukraine's Academy of Sciences for 58 years Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1918–2020
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky Олег Владимирович Пеньковский The GRU colonel who fed the West over 5,000 classified documents on Soviet missile weakness, exposing Khrushchev's strategic bluff Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–1963
Lev Nikolayevich Tolkunov Лев Николаевич Толкунов From Izvestia editor to Soviet of the Union chairman: a Brezhnev-era media mandarin who became the face of the supreme legislature Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–1989
Vladimir Sergeyevich Alkhimov Владимир Сергеевич Алхимов Long-serving head of Gosbank Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–1993
Viktor Mikhailovich Bushuyev Виктор Михайлович Бушуев CC department head who directed the Soviet chemical industry Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–1996
Georgy Emmanuilovich Tsukanov Георгий Эммануилович Цуканов The quiet gatekeeper who controlled Brezhnev's paper flow Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1919–2001
Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2003
Pavel Vasilyevich Finogenov Павел Васильевич Финогенов The defense industry minister who ran Soviet conventional arms production from late Brezhnev through perestroika Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2004
Yuri Vsyevolodovich Votintsev Юрий Всеволодович Вотинцев A missile-defence builder who disclosed a Cold War false alarm Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2005
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector Education · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2006
Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov Анатолий Иванович Грибков Secret planner of the Cuban Missile Crisis deployment and last Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2008
Boris Grigorievich Dubovsky Борис Григорьевич Дубовский The physicist who built the dosimetry for F-1's first criticality and founded the Soviet reactor radiation safety system Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2008
Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov Дмитрий Ильич Козлов Korolev's right hand who led the R-7 through design, mass production, and every successive variant Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2009
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1919–2010
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников The small-arms designer who became the face of Soviet defence industry: father of the AK-47 Science and technology · United Russia 1919–2013
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–1996
Nikolai Grigoryevich Yegorychev Николай Григорьевич Егорычев The Moscow party boss who challenged Brezhnev and was exiled to diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2005
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev Николай Николаевич Месяцев The official who exposed the fabricated Doctors' Plot Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–2011
Ivan Lavrentievich Ustinov Иван Лаврентьевич Устинов Military counterintelligence chief of the Brezhnev era Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1920–2020
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв The conservative Second Secretary inside perestroika Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1920–2021
Vadim Stepanovich Tikunov Вадим Степанович Тикунов Shelepin-network RSFSR interior minister who led Khrushchev-era policing Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1980
Nikolai Nikolayevich Inozemtsev Николай Николаевич Иноземцев Intellectual architect of Brezhnev-era détente Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1921–1982
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров He built the hydrogen bomb, then turned on the system Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1989
Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1997
Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov Виктор Георгиевич Куликов Longest-serving Warsaw Pact supreme commander, who led its forces for twelve years Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–2013
Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev Анатолий Сергеевич Черняев Gorbachev's pen and conscience: architect of New Thinking diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–2017
Pyotr Stepanovich Pleshakov Пётр Степанович Плешаков Architect of Soviet radio-electronic warfare Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1987
Georgi Nikitovich Bolshakov Георгий Никитович Большаков The GRU officer who ran the secret backchannel between Khrushchev and the Kennedys Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1989
Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev Виктор Григорьевич Афанасьев Longest-serving Pravda editor and gatekeeper of Brezhnev-era print orthodoxy Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1922–1994

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