CPSU profiteers

[RedWorker]

Is there a list of powerful persons within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which later ended up in the profit-earning team of some major Russian corporations after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

So far I've looked at the people who were involved in the "hardliner" "communist" coup and found out that out of the 8 leaders, one then became a banker and another a businessman.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Not that I know of but that sounds like a really cool and interesting idea for a piece of research and I'd be interested in seeing the results as well. :)

[RedWorker]

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[FSL]

It's easier if you go the other way around and look up the modern-day oligarchs to see who of them were "communist party bosses"back in the day. The simple answer is pretty much none. Abramovich for example started making money in the black market in the 80s.
I do remember looking it up and only one or two had been party members or spent some time in the komsomol but that was almost a given. Komsomol in the 80s had 20 million members, practically everyone eligible.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Is there a list of powerful persons within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which later ended up in the profit-earning team of some major Russian corporations after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

So far I've looked at the people who were involved in the "hardliner" "communist" coup and found out that out of the 8 leaders, one then became a banker and another a businessman.

Comrade Putin was a senior KGB agent. Berezovsky was a high up science nerd. Luzhkov was a science need turn government man turned douche. You mean shit like that?

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

It's easier if you go the other way around and look up the modern-day oligarchs to see who of them were "communist party bosses"back in the day. The simple answer is pretty much none. Abramovich for example started making money in the black market in the 80s.
I do remember looking it up and only one or two had been party members or spent some time in the komsomol but that was almost a given. Komsomol in the 80s had 20 million members, practically everyone eligible.

Many of the wealthiest and most corrupt heads of state in the former Soviet world are former party members. Countries like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are run by wealthy cliques founded by former local CPSU leaders. Remember that the USSR didn't stop at the borders of Russia.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

yeah I think it's more common in the satellite states. Russia seems to have been cleansed by the Putin clan.

[Hatshepsut]

Would time make a difference? It's been over 20 years and most of the big party bosses weren't young back then. Putin was among the youngest of them.