- Joseph Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, …
- M.K. Stalin
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin was born on March 1, 1953 in Madras, now Chennai. He is an Indian Politician, better known as M.K.Stalin. He is the son of the incumbent chief minister of Tamil Nadu Karunanidhi, named after the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who had died in the same year as his birth. Stalin completed his graduation in history from Presidency College in Madras University.
- Black Stalin
Black Stalin (born Leroy Calliste, September 24, 1941) is a leading calypsonian. Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, Stalin began singing calypso in 1959, but did not join a calypso tent until 1962 when he joined the "Southern Brigade". In 1967 he joined Kitchener's "Calypso Revue" tent and managed to place in that year's Calypso Monarch competition.
- J Stalin
J Stalin is a rap artist from the Cypress housing projects in West Oakland, California, USA. He has released roughly 7 mixtapes and has 4 or so releases slated from 2007. According to an interview featured on the Demolition Men release entitled "Early Morning Shift", J Stalin was born into poverty and earned money as a child by selling candy bars on the Bay Area Rapid Transit trains. Later, he began selling drugs in his local housing projects.
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British journalist and historian of Jewish origin specializing in Russian History. He wrote "Potemkin", a biography of Catherine the Great's lover and political partner. More recently, in 2004, he published a lengthy biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful leaders, "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar".
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to save the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. These documents identified the bearers as Swedish nationals awaiting repatriation. It is impossible to determine exactly how many Jews were rescued by his actions.
- John Anderson
John Anderson (1893-1962) was a Scottish born philosopher who occupied the post of Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in the years 1927-1958. He founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as 'Sydney realism'. His promotion of 'free thought' in all subjects, including politics and morality, was controversial and brought him into constant conflict with the august senate of the university.
- Ludo Martens
Ludo Martens (born 12 March, 1946) is a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union. He is also the chairman of the Workers' Party of Belgium. In 1968 he founded the Maoist group "Alle macht aan de arbeiders" (All Power to the Workers), which in 1979 became the Workers' Party of Belgium. Martens wrote on the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he has lived and travelled extensively.
- Yulia Latynina
Yulia Leonidovna Latynina is a Russian journalist, writer and radio host. She works at the radio station Echo of Moscow. She also writes for Novaya Gazeta. Yulia Latynina is known for her sharp and polemic statements. She claimed that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, French President Jacques Chirac, Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder, and U.S. President George W. Bush have all been successfully "recruited" by Vladimir Putin to serve his political objectives..
- Edvard Radzinsky
Edvard Radzinsky (b. September 29, 1936, Moscow) is a Russian writer, historian and TV personality, author of numerous plays and film scenarios. Radzinsky is also a Rurikid prince as the scion of one of the oldest houses of Russian nobility. Since 1990s Radzinsky has been writing books in the series "Mysteries of History" ("Загадки истории").
- Alexandra Kollontai
Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai (March 9, 1952) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. She was effectively exiled by Stalin, who sent her to Mexico, Sweden and Norway as a diplomat, and was thus one of the very few "Old Bolsheviks" to escape death during the Great Purges of the 1930s. Kollontai was born in St. Petersburg to Mikhail Domontovich, …
- Roy Medvedev
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era, Medvedev criticized Stalin and Stalinism from a Marxist viewpoint. Medvedev became a researcher at the Education Academy after joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956. In the early 1960s, he was engaged in samizdat publications. In 1969, Medvedev was purged from the CPSU after the publication of his book, …
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born July 18, 1933) is a Russian poet. He also directed several films.
- Dmitri Volkogonov
Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov was a Russian historian, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of History, Colonel General (1986). Volkogonov was the head of the Institute of Military History at the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union between 1988 and 1991. He was director of the arm of the Soviet military concerned with "psychological warfare", writing a manual on this subject for Soviet forces ("The Psychological War").
- J. Arch Getty
John Arch Getty is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is noted for his research on Russian and Soviet history, especially the period under Joseph Stalin and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During the 1980s, Getty was a member of the Revisionist school, which downplayed the extent of Stalin's Great Purges, as articulated in his "Origin of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, …
- Viktor Suvorov
Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (born April 20, 1947), better known by the pen name Viktor Suvorov is a Russian writer and historian. He served in the Soviet Army and worked in Soviet military intelligence (GRU). He deserted and escaped to the United Kingdom in 1978 where he worked as an intelligence analyst and lecturer. He made his name writing books about Russian History, the Soviet Army, GRU, and Spetsnaz.
- A. R. Murugadoss
A. R. Murugadoss is a famous and successful director in Kollywood, the Indian based film industry. He has done four films. He has directed top heroes in Ajith Kumar, Vijaykanth, Surya and Chiranjeevi. His four films have been classified hits and Ghajini especially received rave reviews for hi style of directing. His latest venture is with Chiranjeevi (Stalin). College Days His native place is Kallakurichi.
- Mátyás Rákosi
Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian dictator and the leader of Hungary from 1945 to 1956 through his post as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party. Rákosi was born in Ada, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Serbia). The sixth son of a Jewish grocer, he later repudiated religion. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured on the Eastern Front.
- Robert C. Tucker
Robert C. Tucker is an American historian. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was a prominent Sovietologist at Princeton University. He served as an attaché at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1944-1953. His biographies of Joseph Stalin are cited by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies as his greatest contribution.
- Stephen F. Cohen
Stephen Frand Cohen is a scholar of Russian studies in the USA. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country's relationship with the United States. In 1983, he declared that the Soviet system was remarkably stable, not foreseeing the breakup of the USSR less than a decade later, in 1991.
- Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (June 3, 1946) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
- Louis Fischer
Louis Fischer was a well known Jewish American journalist of the 1950s. He was a contributor to the ex-Communist treatise "The God that Failed". He met Mahatma Gandhi and wrote a biography of him, "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi", on which the Oscar-winning film "Gandhi" was based. Working as journalist in Stalin's Soviet Union, he and his family eventually fled the country. Louis Fischer's wife, Markoosha Fischer, was Russian.
- Boris Souvarine
Boris Souvarine was an Imperial Russian-born French socialist and communist activist, essayist, and journalist.
- Solomon Mikhoels
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (real surname - Vovsi), ; (January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Born Shloyme Vovsi in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils), Latvia, Mikhoels studied law in Saint Petersburg, but left school in 1918 to join Alexander Granovsky's Jewish Theater Workshop, which was attempting to create a national Jewish theater in Russia based on the Yiddish language.
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian writer and a wife of poet Osip Mandelstam. Born in Saratov into a middle-class Jewish family, she spent her early years in Kiev. After the gymnasium she studied art. After their marriage in 1921, Nadezhda and Osip Mandelstam lived in Ukraine, Petrograd, Moscow, and Georgia. Osip was arrested in 1934 for his "Stalin Epigram" and exiled with Nadezhda to Cherdyn, Perm region and later to Voronezh.
- Eugene Lyons
Eugene Lyons (1 July1898-7 January1985) was a U.S. journalist and writer. He was born to a Jewish family in Uzlyany in what is now Belarus. In his early days he was fairly close to the Communist Party of the USA, was involved in the defence of Sacco and Vanzetti, and wrote an account of their case shortly after their execution. Possibly his most important work was "Assignment in Utopia" an account of his time in the USSR during the late 1920s and early 1930s, …
- Igor Kurchatov
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов was a Soviet/Russian physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Kurchatov was born in "Simsky zavod", Ufa Guberniya (now city of "Sim", Chelyabinsk Oblast). After completing Simferopol gymnasium №1 he studied physics at Crimea State University and ship building at the Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd.
- Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj - Sperans (January 27, 1910 - February 10, 1979) was a Slovene prewar communist, economist, antifascist, partisan, politician, statesman and publicist.Kardelj was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (at that time Laibach in Austria-Hungary). He helped organize resistance in Slovenia in 1941 and accompanied Tito's Partisans in fighting Axis powers during the Second World War.
- Aslan Abashidze
Aslan Abashidze was the leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia from 1991 to May 5, 2004. Abashidze was born into a renowned Muslim Ajarian family. His grandfather Memed Abashidze was a famous writer and member of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Georgia between 1918-1921, but was shot on Stalin's orders in 1937. His father was sent to the Gulag for ten years but survived.
- Victor Kravchenko
Victor Andreevich Kravchenko, (11 October 1905 Yekaterinoslav - 25 February 1966) was a Soviet defector who wrote up his experiences of life in the Soviet Union and as a Soviet official, especially in his 1946 book "I Chose Freedom". Born into a family of revolutionaries, Kravchenko became an engineer and worked in the Don basin region. He joined the Communist Party in 1929.
- Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Russian writer of the Soviet period whose works anticipate existentialism. Platonov was one of the early writers who emerged after the Russian revolution. Although he was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies. His famous works include "Chevengur", a dystopian novel.
- Nikolai Cherkasov
Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (July 27, 1903 - September 14, 1966), was a Soviet actor. From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in Leningrad.
- Yegor Ligachev
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 Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachev became a potential challenger to his leadership. Ligachev had been first secretary of the party in Tomsk, Siberia when he was discovered by Yuri Andropov and brought to Moscow to become head of the Central Committee's Department for Organizational Party Work.
- Galina Ulanova
Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova (8 January 1910 (O.S. 26 December 1909) - 21 March, 1998) has the reputation of the greatest Soviet ballerina. Her flat in Moscow is designated a national museum, and there are monuments to her in Saint Petersburg and Stockholm. Ulanova studied in Petrograd under Agrippina Vaganova and her own mother, a ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet. When she joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1928, the press found in her "much of Semyonova's style, grace, …
- Antonín Zápotocký
Antonín Zápotocký was Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953 and President of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1957. He was born in Zákolany, near Kladno, Bohemia (then in Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic). His father was Ladislav Zápotocký, one of the founders of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), together with Josef Boleslav Pecka-Strahovský and Josef Hybeš. He was a delegate of the Left Wing of the ČSSD to the Second Comintern Congress, …
- Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
General Count Tadeusz Komorowski (June 1, 1895 - August 24, 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: "Bór") was a Polish military leader. Komorowski was born in Lwów, Austria-Hungary (now L'viv, Ukraine). In the First World War he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and after the war became an officer in the Polish Army, rising to command the Grudziadz Cavalry School.
- Max Hayward
Max (Harry Maxwell) Hayward (28 July 1924 London - 18 March 1979 Oxford) was a British lecturer on and translator of Russian literature. After schooling in London and Liverpool, Hayward went to Magdalen College, Oxford in 1942 on a scholarship to study German. He soon dropped German for Russian, graduating with a first-class degree in 1945.
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (September 30 1895 - December 5 1977) was a Soviet military commander, promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He was the Soviet Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, as well as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953. As the Chief of the General Staff, Vasilevsky was responsible for the planning and coordination of almost all decisive Soviet offensives, …
- Yelena Bonner
Yelena Georgevna Bonner (born February 15, 1923) is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov.
- Rexford Tugwell
Rexford Guy Tugwell was an agricultural economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brains Trust," a group of Columbia academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's 1932 election as President. Tugwell subsequently served in FDR's administration for four years and was one of the chief intellectual contributors to his New Deal. Later in his life, he also served as the governor of Puerto Rico, a then-appointed position.