aleksandr shcherbakov alexander dzasokhov alexander nikolaevich yakovlev alexei rykov anastas mikoyan andrei andreyev andrei bubnov andrei gromyko andrei zhdanov anti-party group arseni grigoryevich zverev boris ponomarev boris pugo cpsu central auditing commission cpsu party control committee central committee of the communist party of the soviet union communist party of the soviet union congress of the communist party of the soviet union dmitri shepilov eduard shevardnadze felix dzerzhinsky frol kozlov general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union georgy malenkov georgy zhukov grigory petrovsky grigory romanov grigory sokolnikov grigory zinoviev heydar aliyev history of the communist party of the soviet union islom karimov joseph stalin kliment voroshilov komsomol konstantin chernenko lazar kaganovich leon trotsky leonid brezhnev lev kamenev mikhail frunze mikhail gorbachev mikhail kalinin mikhail suslov mikhail tomsky nikita khrushchev nikolai bukharin nikolai bulganin nikolai krestinsky nikolai podgorny nikolai tikhonov nikolai yezhov nikolay shvernik nursultan nazarbayev oleg shenin organization of the communist party of the soviet union orgburo panteleimon ponomarenko parliament pavel postyshev petru lucinschi politburo pravda russian language saparmurat niyazov secretariat of the cpsu central committee semyon ignatyev sharof rashidov soviet union stanislav kosior supreme soviet tomsky vasil mzhavanadze vasily kuznetsov viktor chebrikov viktor grishin vladimir ivashko vladimir lenin vlas chubar volodymyr shcherbytsky vyacheslav molotov yale university yan rudzutak yegor ligachev yegor stroyev yevgeny primakov yuri andropov