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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 88 Government and administration 19 Legislature and state representation 6 Military command 163 Security, intelligence and policing 101 Diplomacy and international organization 44 Economy, finance and planning 83 Industry and production 82 Agriculture and land policy 14 Ideology and propaganda 52 Social movements and organizing 135 Scholarship and theory 24 Education 8 Science and technology 97 Literature and arts 34 Law and justice 21

Affiliation

Most people

Any Soviet Union state institutions 681 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 678 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 81 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 10 Comintern 8 United Russia 5 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Russian Empire state institutions 2

All 21 affiliations

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 2

International organizations

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

Italy

Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 1 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 2 Russian Federation state institutions 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 81 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 10 United Russia 5 Our Home – Russia 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 678 Soviet Union state institutions 681

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 1 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate) state institutions 1 ↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 1

Position(set)

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 822 Russia 23 Germany 1

Background(set)

Any Russia 846 Ukraine 95 China 54 Belarus 46 Poland 45 Germany 44 Georgia 30 Latvia 29 Armenia 27 Hungary 27 Azerbaijan 16 Lithuania 16 Estonia 12 Czechia 11 France 11 Vietnam 11 Angola 10 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 10 United States 9 Moldova 8 Romania 8 Uzbekistan 8 Finland 7 Yemen 7 Bulgaria 6 Mongolia 6 Spain 6 Albania 5 Cambodia 5 Italy 5 Korea 5 Kyrgyzstan 5 Slovakia 5 Afghanistan 4 Croatia 4 Cuba 4 Ethiopia 4 Japan 4 Kazakhstan 4 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Laos 3 Mozambique 3 Serbia 3 Somalia 3 Tajikistan 3 Turkey 3 Turkmenistan 3 United Kingdom 3 Brazil 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Greece 2 India 2 Indonesia 2 Montenegro 2 Slovenia 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 Argentina 1 Austria 1 Benin 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Burkina Faso 1 Chile 1 East Germany 1 Grenada 1 Guyana 1 Madagascar 1 Martinique 1 Netherlands 1 Palestine 1 Switzerland 1

Era

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 6 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 139 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 304 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 284 The last generation1985–1991 106

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 5 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Marxism and communism Background: Russia Clear all

846 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Mikhail Ivanovich Ryzhov Михаил Иванович Рыжов Yezhov’s intimate who rose to deputy commissar and died under interrogation Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1939
Nikolai Alexandrovich Milyutin Николай Александрович Милютин RSFSR Finance Commissar who commissioned the Narkomfin Building and authored the Sotsgorod linear-city concept Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1942
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis Лев Захарович Мехлис From Stalin's personal secretary to the Red Army's purge enforcer, nicknamed 'the Inquisitor of the Red Army' Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1889–1953
Alexandra Vasilievna Artyukhina Александра Васильевна Артюхина The only woman on the Orgburo and Secretariat, who led the Zhenotdel at its peak Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1969
Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1918
Boris Mironovich Feldman Борис Миронович Фельдман One of the eight Tukhachevsky-trial defendants; his confession under torture started the chain reaction that consumed the Red Army Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1937
Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin Мартемьян Никитич Рютин Right Oppositionist who authored the 'Ryutin Platform': the last organized intra-party call to remove Stalin Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1937
Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev Александр Яковлевич Аросев The revolutionary who ordered the Kremlin shelled, and the proletarian writer who published thirty books Literature and arts · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1890–1938
Lev Natanovich Kritsman Лев Натанович Крицман The agrarian Marxist who theorized War Communism Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1938
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher Василий Константинович Блюхер “Order of the Red Banner No. 1”: Civil War hero and one of the first five marshals, extinguished in Lefortovo Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1938
Vitaly Grigorievich Khlopin Виталий Григорьевич Хлопин The radiochemist who led the Radium Institute and laid the institutional foundations of Soviet nuclear physics Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1950
Leib Moiseyevich Kvitko Лев Моисеевич Квитко A Yiddish poet who gave voice to Soviet Jewish culture Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1890–1952
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов “Stone-arse”: the man who never changed his mind Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1890–1986
V. Markovich Volodarsky В. Маркович Володарский Petrograd's press commissar whose assassination helped trigger the Red Terror Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1918
Pavel Yevgenyevich Lazimir Павел Евгеньевич Лазимир The Left SR figurehead chairman of the MRC, lending a non-Bolshevik face to the Bolshevik insurrection while Trotsky directed operations Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1920
Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов The commissar-writer who turned Chapaev into a Soviet myth Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1926
Artur Khristianovich Artuzov Артур Христианович Артузов Co-founder of Soviet intelligence & counterintelligence; brain of Operation Trust Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1937
Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1891–1938
Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov Михаил Александрович Чернов The commissar who ran agriculture through the second Five-Year Plan, from grain procurement to VDNKh Agriculture and land policy · Soviet Union state institutions 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 state institutions 1891–1940
Arkadi Maslow Аркадий Маслов The pianist-turned-revolutionary who drove the KPD's ultra-left turn, and became the anti-Stalinist left's perpetual dissident Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1891–1941
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov Владимир Михайлович Петляков The prisoner who gave the Red Air Force its finest tactical bomber: Pe-2, born in a sharashka Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1942
Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov Сергей Иванович Вавилов The physicist-administrator who led the Academy of Sciences through the early atomic age Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1951
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Александр Михайлович Родченко Founder of Constructivism, pioneer of Soviet design, advertising, and photography Literature and arts 1891–1956
Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrebyshev Александр Николаевич Поскрёбышев Stalin's shadow: secretary who filtered all information, drafted the 1936 Constitution & Short Course, ran the Special Sector for 25 years Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1965
Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov Александр Васильевич Горбатов The army general who survived Kolyma, took Berlin, and testified to Stalin-era repression Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1973
Maria Akimovna Volodicheva Мария Акимовна Володичева Lenin's duty secretary, recorder of his final dictations Social movements and organizing · Soviet Union state institutions 1891–1973
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924
Ephraim Markovich Sklyansky Эфраим Маркович Склянский Trotsky's Carnot: the Red Army's administrative brain, erased by Stalinism Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1925
Pyotr Ionovich Baranov Пётр Ионович Баранов Principal architect of the Soviet Air Force and aviation industry Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1933
Mikhail Iosifovich Litvin Михаил Иосифович Литвин Yezhov's personnel chief who purged 14,000 Chekists Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев The agrarian economist who discovered long economic waves Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1938
Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников From Volga flotilla commander to exile critic: the diplomat who wrote Stalin an open letter Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1939
Mirsaid Khaydargalievich Sultan-Galiev Мирсаид Хайдаргалиевич Султан-Галиев The architect of Islamic socialism and national communism who became Stalin's first ideological purge victim Political and party leadership · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1940
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov Николай Николаевич Поликарпов The 'King of Fighters' who dominated Soviet fighter aviation for a decade Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1944
Sergei Yakovlevich Zhuk Сергей Яковлевич Жук Stalin's chief hydraulic engineer who designed the Gulag canal network Industry and production · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1957
Andrei Vasilyevich Khrulev Андрей Васильевич Хрулёв The invisible commander who moved the war, the only supply general Stalin toasted as architect of victory Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1962
Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov Виктор Валентинович Новожилов Co-founder of the Soviet economic-mathematical school who bridged Marx's value theory with mathematical optimization Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1970
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin Константин Александрович Федин Novelist who began as a Serapion Brother and became the chief gatekeeper of Soviet literature for 18 years Literature and arts · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1977
Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev Иван Владимирович Тюленев The cavalry general who bolted the Caucasus gate, witness to three wars Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1892–1978
Boris Mikhailovich Hessen Борис Михайлович Гессен The Marxist historian of science who revealed the socio-economic roots of Newton's mechanics; first dean of MSU physics Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1936
Karl Viktorovich Pauker Карл Викторович Паукер The operations chief who guarded Stalin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1937
Mendel Markovich Khataevich Мендель Маркович Хатаевич The party secretary who warned Molotov that grain seizures would leave nobody to plant, shot four years later Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский “The Red Napoleon,” killed by the army he built Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1937
Sergei Ivanovich Syrtsov Сергей Иванович Сырцов The RSFSR premier who turned against Stalin from Siberia Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937
Vladimir Ivanovich Polonsky Владимир Иванович Полонский Bolshevik Orgotdel chief and trade-union officer purged in 1937 Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1893–1937

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