Isaac Asimov
Russian
Novelist. As a scientist, science fiction writer, futurist, and coiner of the term "robotics," Asimov expressed the value, as well as the complications, of limitless technological advance.
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
Contemporaries
| 1896–1974 | Giorgiy Zhukov |
| 1883–1936 | Grigoriy Zinoviev |
| 1927–2013 | Tatyana Zaslavskaya |
| 1884–1937 | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
| 1931–2007 | Boris Yeltsin |
| 1895–c. 1939 | Nikolai Yezhov |
| 1896–1934 | Lev Vygotsky |
| 1883–1954 | Andrey Vyshinsky |
| 1879–1940 | Leon Trotsky |
| 1902–1982 | Mikhail Suslov |
| c. 1886–1934 | Alexandre Stavisky |
| 1906–1977 | Alexey Stakhanov |
| 1891–1945 | Maria Skobtsova |
| 1928–2014 | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| Born 1948 | Natan Shcharansky |
| 1921–1989 | Andrey Sakharov |
| 1881–1938 | Alexey Rykov |
| 1885–c. 1939 | Karl Radek |
| 1938–1993 | Rudolf Nureyev |
| 1890–1950 | Vaslav Nijinsky |
| 1902–1977 | Alexander Luria |
| 1870–1924 | Vladimir Lenin |
| 1842–1921 | Pyotr Kropotkin |
| 1894–1971 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| 1881–1970 | Alexander Kerensky |
| Born 1963 | Gary Kasparov |
| 1893–1991 | Lazar Kaganovich |
| Born 1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1880–1942 | Michel Fokine |
| 1877–1926 | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| 1872–1929 | Sergei Diaghilev |
| 1888–1938 | Nikolay Bukharin |
| 1871–1944 | Sergey Bulgakov |
| 1923–2011 | Yelena Bonner |
| 1880–1921 | Alexander Blok |
| 1899–1953 | Lavrenti Beria |
| 1857–1927 | Vladimir Bekhterev |
| Born 1948 | Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| 1904–1983 | George Balanchine |
