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Also Known As	Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Born	November 14, 1925 (age 99) • Tbilisi • Georgia
Notable Works	“All Stalin’s Men” • “On Socialist Democracy”
Notable Family Members	brother Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev • brother Zhores Medvedev
Subjects Of Study	Nikita Khrushchev • Soviet Union • Stalinism

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Joseph Stalin

premier of Soviet Union

Oleg Baklanov

Soviet politician

Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev

Soviet politician

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

prime minister of Soviet Union

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

premier of Soviet Union

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary

Stanislav Petrov

Soviet military officer

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

president of Soviet Union

Andrey Sakharov

Andrey Sakharov

Soviet physicist and dissident

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

president of Russia

Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Zhukov

Soviet marshal

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev

Russian revolutionary

Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin

premier of Soviet Union

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov

foreign minister of Soviet Union

Lev Kamenev

Lev Kamenev

Soviet government official

Nikolay Bukharin

Nikolay Bukharin

Soviet political leader

Karl Radek.

Karl Radek

Soviet official

Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov

Soviet statesman

Andrei Gromyko

Andrei Gromyko

president of Soviet Union

Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhaylovich

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov

Soviet statesman

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