SOVIET POLITBURO Survivor - GORBACHEV is a survivor
big bad fab:
Well, even more than Hitler's aides and satraps, this is my favourite survivor.
Kal has already done, last year, a very pleasant Stalin inner circle, but here, I've include all the 1917-1991 period.
Here are the most important Politburo members (either full members or candidate members: the dates are between brackets).
Of course, there are some exceptions, as 4 guys were never in the Politburo, but were important enough, in their time, for me to include them (Radek, Tukhachevskyi, Yagoda, Pavlov).
Many choices are of course disputable. I know it, but I needed to have a similar number of names in each group...
Many guys aren't easily put in only one category (Mikoyan, Suslov, Kosygin, for example, as they served many masters and behaved in very different ways during their life); some aren't really linked to any category (Zhukov, e.g.).
I wanted to have a "reformist" group, without the old khrushchevians. But it would have been too small (only Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Yakovlev and Shevardnadze).
Between "khrushchevians" and "modern conservatives", the border is tenuous. Some kremlinologists would kill me to put Andropov in the "khrushchevians"... ;). Trotsky would have made a group of his own...
And when it's written "open", it doesn't mean "cool"... ;) It's just that the guys were able to evolve from their original basis.
"Bolsheviks":
Vladimir Ulyanov LENIN (1917-1924)
Lev Bronstein TROTSKIY (1917-1926)
Mikhail Ivanovich KALININ (1919-1946)
Yakov SVERDLOV (1918-1919)
Yelena STASOVA (1917-1918, 1919)
Yevgeniy PREOBRAZHENSKIY (1917-1918, 1920-1921)
Yan RUDZUTAK (1926-1932, 1934-1938)
Stanislav KOSIOR (1927-1939)
Vlas CHUBAR (1926-1938)
"Open bolsheviks":
Lev Rozenfeld KAMENEV (1917-1926)
Grigoriy Radomyslskiy ZINOVYEV (1917-1926)
Nikolay BUKHARIN (1917-1929)
Aleksey RYKOV (1922-1930)
Mikhail TOMSKIY (1922-1930)
Nikolay KRESTINSKIY (1917-1921)
Mikhail FRUNZE (1924-1925)
Grigoriy Brilliant SOKOLNIKOV (1917-1919)
Karl RADEK (-)
Mikhail TUKHACHEVSKIY (-)
"Stalinists":
Iosif Dzhugashvili STALIN (1917-1953)
Vyacheslav Skryabin MOLOTOV (1921-1957)
Kliment VOROSHILOV (1926-1960)
Lazar KAGANOVICH (1926-1957)
Feliks DZERZHINSKIY (1918-1919, 1924-1926)
Andrey ZHDANOV (1935-1948)
Nikolay YEZHOV (1937-1938)
Andrey ANDREYEV (1926-1930, 1932-1952)
Lavrentiy BERIYA (1939-1953)
Andrey VYSHINSKIY (1952-1953)
Pavel POSTYSHEV (1934-1938)
Genrikh YAGODA (-)
"Open stalinists":
Georgiy MALENKOV (1941-1957)
Nikolay BULGANIN (1946-1958)
Anastas MIKOYAN (1926-1966)
Dmitriy SHEPILOV (1956-1957)
Sergey Kostrikov KIROV (1926-1934)
Maksim SABUROV (1952-1957)
Mikhail PERVUKHIN (1952-1961)
Nikolay VOZNESENSKIY (1941-1949)
Georgiy ZHUKOV (1956-1957)
Grigori Sergo ORDZHONIKIDZE (1930-1937)
Valerian KUYBYSHEV (1927-1935)
"Brezhnevians":
Leonid BREZHNEV (1952-1953, 1957-1982)
Konstantin CHERNENKO (1977-1985)
Nikolay TIKHONOV (1978-1985)
Andrey GROMYKO (1973-1988)
Vasiliy KUZNETSOV (1952-1953, 1977-1986)
Mikhail SUSLOV (1952-1953, 1955-1982)
Dmitriy USTINOV (1965-1984)
Andrey GRECHKO (1973-1976)
Vladimir SHCHERBITSKIY (1961-1963, 1965-1989)
Viktor GRISHIN (1961-1986)
Sharaf RASHIDOV (1961-1983)
Boris PONOMAREV (1972-1986)
"Modern conservatives":
Aleksey KOSYGIN (1946-1953, 1957-1980)
Andrey KIRILENKO (1957-1961, 1962-1982)
Grigoriy ROMANOV (1973-1985)
Nikolay RYZHKOV (1985-1990)
Gennadiy YANAYEV (1990-1991)
Anatoliy LUKYANOV (1988-1990)
Yegor LIGACHEV (1985-1990)
Lev ZAYKOV (1986-1990)
Viktor CHEBRIKOV (1983-1989)
Vladimir KRYUCHKOV (1989-1990)
Heidar ALIYEV (1976-1987)
Pyotr SHELEST (1963-1973)
Valentin PAVLOV (-)
"Khrushchevians":
Nikita Sergeyevich KHRUSHCHEV (1938-1964)
Yuriy ANDROPOV (1967-1984)
Nikolay PODGORNIY (1958-1977)
Nikolay SHVERNIK (1939-1966)
Aleksandr SHELEPIN (1964-1975)
Frol KOZLOV (1956-1964)
Fyodor KULAKOV (1971-1978)
Dmitriy POLYANSKIY (1958-1976)
Otto KUUSINEN (1952-1953, 1957-1964)
Mikhail GORBACHEV (1979-1991)
Aleksandr YAKOVLEV (1987-1990)
Eduard SHEVARDNADZE (1978-1990)
Boris YELTSIN (1986-1988)
Rules are different in each round: please read the rules before voting.
The Politburo member who receives the biggest total of votes or points is purged.
In case of a tie, the Politburo member who has received the biggest total of previous votes is purged.
In case of a new tie, I, GenSek of this survivor, decide who is purged.
ROUND 1 IS OPEN !
Beware !In this round, you have 3 points, to cast 2-1 between 2 different Politburo members in EACH group.
We'll purge 1 Politburo member in each group.
Beware !
big bad fab:
"Bolsheviks":
2 Vladimir Ulyanov LENIN He was the first responsible
1 Lev Bronstein TROTSKIY He may have been as bad as Stalin, or even worse
"Open bolsheviks":
2 Grigoriy Radomyslskiy ZINOVYEV Very rude, even if purged
1 Nikolay KRESTINSKIY I find him uninteresting
"Stalinists":
2 Iosif Dzhugashvili STALIN Just one word: Stalin
1 Nikolay YEZHOV An uninteresting and short-lived monster
"Open stalinists":
1 for Anastas MIKOYAN More deeply implicated in stalinist repression than was thought; not really reformist; a big, big opportunist
2 for Georgiy ZHUKOV Politically unstable
"Brezhnevians":
2 Konstantin CHERNENKO Drunk, stupid, corrupt, dangerous
1 Sharaf RASHIDOV Remember the cotton scandal in Uzbekistan ?
"Modern conservatives":
1 Gennadiy YANAYEV Moron and coup-maker
2 Heidar ALIYEV Local satrap who was very opportunistic
"Khrushchevians":
2 Nikolay SHVERNIK First a classical stalinist
1 Dmitriy POLYANSKIY (1958-1976) Just a minor one... The last name I've added on the list ;)
Chancellor Tanterterg:
Bolsheviks
2 Lev Bronstein TROTSKIY
1 Stanislav KOSIOR helped plan the Ukrainian genocide
Open Bolsheviks
2 Nikolay KRESTINSKIY
1 Mikhail FRUNZE another boring one
Stalinists
2 Iosif Dzhugashvili Stalin
1 Pavel POSTYSHEV helped plan the Ukrainian genocide (and not particularly interesting)
Open Stalinists
2 Anastas MIKOYAN
1 Grigori Sergo ORDZHONIKIDZE - uninteresting
Brezhnevians
2 Konstantin CHERNENKO
1 Vladimir SHCHERBITSKIY in charge of covering up Chernobyl
Modern conservatives
2 Gennadiy YANAYEV
1 Andrey KIRILENKO another uninteresting one
Khrushchevians
2 Nikolay SHVERNIK
1 Dmitriy POLYANSKIY
Hans-im-Glück:
Bolsheviks
2 Stanislav KOSIOR
1 Yakov SVERDLOV
Open Bolsheviks
2 Grigoriy Radomyslskiy ZINOVYEV
1 Mikhail FRUNZE
Stalinists
2 Iosif Dzhugashvili Stalin
1 Lavrentiy BERIYA
Open Stalinists
2 Anastas MIKOYAN
1 Georgiy ZHUKOV
Brezhnevians
2 Andrey GROMYKO
1 Konstantin CHERNENKO
Modern conservatives
2 Heidar ALIYEV
1 Andrey KIRILENKO
Khrushchevians
2 Nikolay SHVERNIK
1 Dmitriy POLYANSKIY
Edu:
Bolsheviks
2 for Stanislav KOSIOR
1 for Yakov SVERDLOV
Open Bolsheviks
2 for Mikhail FRUNZE
1 for Nikolay KRESTINSKIY
Stalinists
2 for Iosif Dzhugashvili STALIN
1 for Pavel POSTYSHEV
Open Stalinists
2 for Anastas MIKOYAN
1 for Valerian KUYBYSHEV
Brezhnevians
2 for Konstantin CHERNENKO
1 for Vladimir SHCHERBITSKIY
Modern conservatives
2 for Andrey KIRILENKO
1 for Gennadiy YANAYEV
Khrushchevians
2 for Dmitriy POLYANSKIY
1 for Nikolay SHVERNIK
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