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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
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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