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Born February 26, 1896 • Mariupol • Ukraine
Died August 31, 1948 (aged 52) • Moscow • Russia
Political Affiliation Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Role In Doctors’ Plot • Zhdanovshchina
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
premier of Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Russian revolutionary
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov
foreign minister of Soviet Union
Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev
Soviet government official
Nikolay Bukharin
Nikolay Bukharin
Soviet political leader
Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov
Soviet statesman
Ordzhonikidze, Grigory Konstantinovich
Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze
Soviet government official
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich.
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich
Soviet official
Maksim Litvinov
Maksim Litvinov
Soviet diplomat
Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov
Soviet military and political leader
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Russian revolutionary
Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov
Soviet official
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Soviet politician
Chicherin, Georgy Vasilyevich
Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin
Soviet diplomat
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Soviet statesman
Andrey Sergeyevich Bubnov
Soviet official
Mikoyan, 1962
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
Soviet statesman