Who are the politicians?That persons engaged in political activity at a professional level.They hold in their hands a colossal power.Many of them fall on this field accidentally or due to some circumstances.Such figures over time, begin to occupy a niche in the governance of the country.However, there are people who are politicians from God.They are endowed with a special set of personal characteristics, as well as charisma, so the masses themselves choose them as their leader, entrusting their fate and their hands ready to follow them to the end.Later in the article we present several lists, which will be included in the political figures of Russia, included in the history.
XVI-XVII century
Until the 16th century, Russia has been split between the princes, and each of them can be called a political and state leaders of his time.In addition, the country quite a long time was under the yoke of foreign invaders.In the early 17th century people moved from the person who decided to raise the people to fight the "invaders."So, the leaders of the national liberation movements are the first politicians in Russia.Here are the names of some of them.
- Kuzma Minin.Unfortunately, the exact date of his birth in the records there, but it was during the second half of the 16th century.He is a national hero and an organizer of the national liberation struggle.
- Prince Dmitry Pozharsky (1578-1642) - Minin ally in the organization of national militia.Monument to the two figures emblazoned on the Red Square.
- But the leader of the Peasant War of 1670-1671 years of Stepan Razin (1630-1671) Cossack Ataman picked up the masses against the tsarist government.Here is an example of medieval Russian opposition.
political figures of the 19th century Russian
During the reign of Peter the Great's daughter Elizabeth and her niece Anna Ivanovna and Catherine II and her son Paul I in the state there were many outstanding people.All these politicians of Russia contributed to the development of their country.
first in the list of the most important people, perhaps, should be the name of Alexander Suvorov.Being one of the greatest generals of the country, he never lost a battle.
Prince Dmitry Golitsyn (1734-1803), a famous diplomat and scholar, defended the interests of Russia in France and the Netherlands.He was friends with the French philosophers such as Voltaire.
favorite of Catherine II
It's no secret that Catherine the Great came to power in a palace coup.One of the organizers was an associate of the future Empress - Alexei Orlov (1737-1807).In addition to his reign of Queen were other political figures in Russia, which have become established thanks to favor sovereign of the state.Their names: Grigory Potemkin, Sergei Saltykov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Grigory Orlov, Alexander Yermolov Alexander Lanskoy, Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov, Peter Zavodovsky and others. It is difficult to list all the favorites of Catherine II, but almost all of them had some influence on policycountry in a certain period of time.
first revolutionaries
During the reign of the Queen of the above-mentioned one of the most enlightened minds of the time was Alexander Radishchev (1749-1802).Progressive and revolutionary thinking he was ahead of his time, advocating the abolition of serfdom in the country.Followers of his ideas were revolutionary Russian Nikolay Ogarev (1813-1877), poet and essayist, as well as his closest friend Herzen and Michael Bakunin (1814-1876) - the theorist of anarchism, who was a member of the French, German and Czech revolution of 1848-1849.
their "opponent" can be called Alexei Arakcheev (1769-1834) - the omnipotent Tsar Alexander I.
The list of prominent political figures of the 19th century can not be called Sergei Witte (1849-1915).His contribution to the development of the state can not be compared with anything.We can say that thanks to his innovative ideas the country has made a great leap forward.
beginning of the 20th century (pre-revolutionary period)
With the onset of the twentieth century in Russia in the political arena came a lot of parties, the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, the Octobrists, the Social Revolutionaries, the Social Democrats, populists, and others. Of course, the leaders of each of them can beboldly to list "Politicians Russian 20th century (beginning)".
Among the most prominent figure was George Plekhanov (1856-1918) - one of the leaders of the Mensheviks. During the revolution of 1905-1907. He has been active in the fighttactics and strategies against the Bolsheviks. Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970), who is known by the fact that he was chosen head of the interim government after the bourgeois revolution, for his political views was SR. Another prominent Russian politician was Pavel Milyukov (1859-1943).He was chairman of KDPR, which was one of the leading liberal-monarchist parties of the country. To the ardent monarchists also include large landowner and politician Peter Stolypin.Admiral Kolchak (1873-1920) - the commander of the Black Sea Fleet during the First World War in the post-revolutionary period stood counter-revolutionary views.The same can be said of Wrangel (1878-1928) and Anton Denikin.During the war years, they bossed the White Guard army.But in the south of Russia the counter-revolutionary forces drove Nestor Makhno (1889-1934), or as it is popularly called, Makhno.To his credit more than one terrorist act.He belonged to the party of anarchists.
leaders of the Soviet government
These known Russian politicians over the entire 73 years were considered heroes.Their life was a legend, writing novels, their names were called cities, factories and schools, Komsomol and Pioneer squads.They are leaders of the Bolsheviks, and later - the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov).Born in 1870, he died in 1924 as a result of a terrorist act.The scientist, revolutionary, a prominent political figure.After the October Revolution he was recognized as the leader of the nations that were part of the Soviet Union - a country created on his recommendation.
Companions of Lenin and one of the prominent Bolshevik revolutionaries was Mikhail Kalinin (1875-1946).In 1923 he was elected chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.
Iron Felix - famous Cheka Dzerzhinsky, the brutality of which have recently heard many.He was one of the most ideological revolutionaries, though descended from a noble family.Almost from the first days of the Soviet Union, he became a leader at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Leon Trotsky (real name Bronstein) as an outstanding revolutionary leaders of the Soviet Union.However, after Lenin's death, he began to criticize the Soviet leadership, especially Stalin, for which he was expelled from the country.Having wandered through Europe, he settled in Mexico, where began to write a book about Joseph Dzhugashvili - the new leader of the Soviet people.It was Stalin ordered the liquidation of Trotsky.He died in 1940 in an attack.
CPSU General Secretary
Who can be better known in the Soviet Union than the political leaders of the USSR and Russia (after the Soviet Union).Among them the leading position occupied by the first secretaries of the pariah.Below is the full list.
- Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili).He led the post of leader of Party after Lenin's death.Today, his name is associated with the violent repression of more than two millions of innocent Soviet citizens and blame all of this was a pathological mistrust of the Soviet leader.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971).Since 1953, he was elected first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.Since the beginning of his reign began a period of "thaw".Many of the repressed citizens who are in the camps were released and rehabilitated.However, the world will remember him because of his eccentricities in the Assembly Hall of the United Nations, hitting the podium his shoe.
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982).His era was marked by the flourishing of corruption and bribery.
- Yuri Andropov (1914-1984).This view on the quiet and unremarkable man, before becoming the first secretary of Party, led by the KGB, which testifies to its remarkable intelligence and special preparation.After Brezhnev's death, he was appointed to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of the country.But in this post he remained not so long, just 2 years.
- next secretary of Konstantin Chernenko also briefly led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, only a year.Its activities today few people can remember.
- And finally, the last secretary general of the CPSU Central Committee - Mikhail Gorbachev.He also became the first president of the Soviet Union.Attitude to him by the people has been mixed.With his name is associated with perestroika, glasnost, the collapse of inter-regional conflicts, the disintegration of the Commonwealth countries - participants of the Warsaw Pact, the fall of the Berlin Wall, etc.
politicians of modern Russia
At the beginning of the list, of course, are the names of the people who were at the origins of the new Russian state.The first among them is Boris Yeltsin.He was a former communist activist, but also became the leader of an independent Russian state, and the first popularly elected president of the Russian Federation.In 2000 it was for health reasons to resign.
after Yeltsin's departure from the political scene of his duties were temporarily entrusted unknown young Petersburger Putin.Today, however, no political leaders of the 21st century Russia can not compete with him in popularity among the people.He was twice elected president of a great power, and at the end of the second period gave the reins to his compatriot Dmitry Medvedev, while occupying the post of prime minister.However, after the first period Medvedev returned the "presidential baton" Putin, and he took the post of prime minister.In short, Vladimir Vladimirovich. For the third time took over as president of the largest state in the world.
leaders of political parties in Russia
As at the end of the 19th century, in the 90s of the 20th century in the Russian state, a host of political parties, of which the largest are the "United Russia", "Apple", LDPR, the Communist Party, and others. They are the leaders, respectively, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, Grigory Yavlinsky, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov.
Instead of conclusion
the above list of prominent political figures of Russia, of course, can not be called complete.Over the centuries there were many more.However, the names of politicians, which are incorporated in them, may be called the most significant.
