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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 9 Government and administration 20 Military command 24 Security, intelligence and policing 6 Diplomacy and international organization 18 Economy, finance and planning 2 Social movements and organizing 4 Scholarship and theory 46 Science and technology 3 Literature and arts 3 Law and justice 1

Affiliation

Most people

Any United States state institutions 69 Democratic Party (United States) 19 Republican Party (United States) 16 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 8 Socialist Party of America 6 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1 American Relief Administration (ARA) 1

All 9 affiliations

International organizations

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Union state institutions 1

United States

United States state institutions 69 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 8 American Relief Administration (ARA) 1 Democratic Party (United States) 19 Republican Party (United States) 16 Socialist Party of America 6

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 16 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Western Marxist theorists 1 Marxism and communism 9 Liberalism and republicanism 6 Conservatism and Christian democracy 6

Citizenship

Any United States 128

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 last generation1985–1991 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 32 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 50 Scholars of this history1892–현재 43

Background: United States

128 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Charles E. Eustis Bohlen Charles E. Bohlen The State Department Soviet expert who turned Kennan's and Clayton's policy memos into Marshall's Harvard speech Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1974
George F. Kennan George F. Kennan The American diplomat and historian whose 1946 Long Telegram and X article laid the intellectual foundations of containment Scholarship and theory 1904–2005
William H. Tunner William H. Tunner Architect of large-scale airlift operations Military command · United States state institutions 1906–1983
Curtis E. LeMay Curtis LeMay The Air Force general who firebombed Japan and urged nuclear war on his adversaries Military command · United States state institutions 1906–1990
James Webb James Edwin Webb The administrator who organized Apollo Government and administration · United States state institutions 1906–1992
Ernest Gross Ernest A. Gross An international lawyer who worked the UN’s procedures Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1906–1999
Paul Nitze Paul Nitze A Cold War strategist who moved between nuclear buildup and arms control Government and administration · United States state institutions 1907–2004
Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson A Cold War president caught between reform and war Government and administration · United States state institutions 1908–1973
Edward Geary Lansdale Edward Lansdale The Mongoose architect whose six-phase Cuba overthrow plan convinced the Soviets invasion was coming Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1908–1987
Dean Rusk Dean Rusk A Cold War diplomat who built containment through international coalitions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
George Ball George Ball The Under Secretary who stopped an airstrike on Cuba with the Pearl Harbor analogy, then alone opposed escalation in Vietnam Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
Ronald Wilson Reagan Ronald Reagan The Cold War's last American president, who genuinely believed in nuclear abolition but would not yield on SDI Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1911–2004
Henry M. Jackson Henry M. Jackson A hawkish Democratic senator who tied Soviet trade status to Jewish emigration Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1912–1983
Richard Milhous Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon The Cold Warrior who opened détente with Moscow and Beijing, then became the only U.S. president to resign Government and administration · United States state institutions 1913–1994
Gerald Ford Gerald Ford The unelected president who steered détente into its final phase Government and administration · United States state institutions 1913–2006
Charles Vanik Charles Vanik The congressman who made emigration a condition of trade Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions 1913–2007
Gerard Smith Gerard C. Smith A negotiator of the nuclear age Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1914–1994
William Westmoreland William Westmoreland US Army general who commanded American forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 and pursued a strategy of attrition measured by body count Military command · United States state institutions 1914–2005
Arthur Lundahl Arthur C. Lundahl The founding father of photo interpretation whose analysts spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba and triggered the crisis Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1915–1992
Robert McNamara Robert McNamara The quantitative defense secretary who led the Vietnam War and helped prevent nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis Government and administration · United States state institutions 1916–2009
John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The youngest U.S. president, who took the world to the brink of nuclear war and back Government and administration · United States state institutions 1917–1963
Arthur M. Schlesinger Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A liberal historian who became an insider chronicler of power Scholarship and theory 1917–2007
McGeorge Bundy McGeorge Bundy The National Security Advisor who chose not to wake the president on the first night of the Cuban Missile Crisis Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1919–1996
Walter Stoessel Walter Stoessel A career diplomat who worked the front lines of détente Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–1986
George Pratt Shultz George Shultz The Secretary of State who pushed Reagan toward dialogue with Gorbachev and helped end the Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–2021
Gail Halvorsen Gail Halvorsen An airman whose small act of kindness became an international symbol Military command · United States state institutions 1920–2022
Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson An American historian who interpreted the Spanish Republic and Civil War Scholarship and theory 1921–2019
Martin Edward Malia Martin Edward Malia A historian who forecast the Soviet collapse Scholarship and theory 1924–2004
Stuart Schram Stuart R. Schram Pioneer of Mao studies, author of The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung and editor of the ten-volume Mao’s Road to Power Scholarship and theory 1924–2012
George H. W. Herbert Walker Bush George H. W. Bush The US president who declared the Cold War over with Gorbachev at Malta, yet whose caution nearly let history slip away Government and administration · United States state institutions 1924–2018
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter The 39th U.S. president whose administration marked both the peak and the end of détente Government and administration · United States state institutions 1924–2024
Robert F. Francis Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy The president's brother and attorney general who engineered the secret settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis Law and justice · United States state institutions 1925–1968
Brent Scowcroft Brent Scowcroft A cautious strategist at the Cold War's end Government and administration · United States state institutions 1925–2020
Robert Vincent Daniels Robert Vincent Daniels A historian who traced revolutionary pluralism and the making of Stalinism Scholarship and theory 1926–2010
Richard Heyser Richard Heyser The U-2 pilot whose six-minute, 928-photo run over Cuba on 14 October 1962 revealed Soviet missiles and ignited the Cuban Missile Crisis Military command · United States state institutions 1927–2008
Ted Sorensen Ted Sorensen Kennedy's speechwriter whose pen chose 'quarantine' over airstrikes at the nuclear brink Government and administration · United States state institutions 1928–2010
Jack Foust Matlock Jack Matlock Reagan's NSC Soviet expert who assembled the 'Soviet 101' briefing papers and the last US ambassador to the USSR Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1929–
Vladimir Treml Vladimir Treml A scholar who quantified the Soviet economy's hidden flows Scholarship and theory 1929–2018
James Baker James Baker The pragmatic diplomat who engineered the Cold War's final transition Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1930–
Maurice Meisner Maurice Meisner Historian whose Mao’s China and After judged the Chinese revolution critically from within the Marxist tradition Scholarship and theory 1931–2012
Robert Owen Paxton Robert Owen Paxton The historian who recast Vichy collaboration Scholarship and theory 1932–
Leonard H. Perroots Leonard H. Perroots An intelligence officer whose restraint mattered at the nuclear brink Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1933–2017
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
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–
Ronald Radosh Ronald Radosh A historian whose break with communism led to conservative anti-communism Scholarship and theory 1937–
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
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–
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–

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