Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

male, 53 years old (NYC, New York, United States)
Jewish person, LGBT writer, from the United States, LGBT, Juilliard School faculty, Mother Courage and Her Child…perestroika
Mr. Kushner is a leading playwright and a major voice in American Theatre who has won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play and...
Yegor Ligachev

Yegor Ligachev

male, 89 years old
Russian, communist party, General Secretary of the CPSU, Central Committee of the CPSU, Leninist, Communist Party of the Soviet Union…perestroika
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Russian politician, who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Originally a protege of...
Roy Medvedev

Roy Medvedev

male, 84 years old
Biologist, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, open letter, Supreme Soviet, dissident, president of russia…perestroika
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era,...
Nikolai Ryzhkov

Nikolai Ryzhkov

male, 80 years old
Russian, Uralmash Plant, Uralmash, technocracy, Gosplan, Central Committee of the CPSU…perestroika
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Soviet official and, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a Russian politician. He served as Chairman of the...
Valentin Pavlov

Valentin Pavlov

male, deceased (2003)
New Union Treaty, Russian, Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov, perestroika, amnesty, Heads of Government of the Soviet Union
Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (Russian: Валентин Сергеевич Павлов; September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union fro...
Tatyana Zaslavskaya

Tatyana Zaslavskaya

female, 82 years old
Sociologist, Demidov Prize, From Kiev, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, perestroika, Soviet scientist
Tatyana Zaslavskaya is a Russian economical sociologist, a theoretician of perestroika, an author and co-author of several books in economy of the...
Mariela Castro

Mariela Castro

female
LGBT rights activist, AIDS activist, humanitarian, rights, bisexuality, Transsexualism…perestroika
Mariela Castro Espín is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba. She is the d...
Viktor Gerashchenko

Viktor Gerashchenko

male
banker, Gerakl, Russian Central Bank, Russian Constitutional Crisis, Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko, Russian financial crisis…perestroika
Viktor Vladimirovich Gerashchenko, byname "Gerakl" (the Russian version of Heracles), was the Chairman of the Soviet and then Russian Central Bank...
Stanislav Govorukhin

Stanislav Govorukhin

male, 73 years old
Geologist, Desyat negrityat, And Then There Were None, Nika Award, In Search of the Castaways, The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed…perestroika
Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films, often featuring...
Yegor Yakovlev

Yegor Yakovlev

male, deceased (2005)
Russian, journalist, soviet, glasnost, yeltsin, correspondent…perestroika
Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (March 14, 1930 - September 18, 2005) was one of the founders of Gorbachev and Yeltsin-style glasnost, and one of the...