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Victor Kravchenko

1905 - 1966

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Viktor Andriyovych Kravchenko (Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Андрі́йович Кра́вченко; 11 October 1905 – 25 February 1966) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet defector, known for writing the best-selling book I Chose Freedom, published in 1946, about the realities of life in the Soviet Union. Kravchenko defected to the United States during World War II, and began writing about his experiences as an official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Kravchenko has received more than 8,091 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Kravchenko is the 8,900th most popular politician, the 349th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 105th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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  • 8.1k

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  • 61.04

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Victor Kravchenko ranks 8,900 out of 19,576. Before him are Luigi Luzzatti, King Jing of Zhou, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Armand Trousseau, Fulbert Youlou, and Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. After him are Umberto Bossi, Sergei Korsakoff, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, and Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Victor Kravchenko ranks 116. Before him are Karl Guthe Jansky, Wanda Wasilewska, Martin Gottfried Weiss, Bruno Rossi, Anfilogino Guarisi, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. After him are Joseph Bonanno, Harry Harlow, Leo Genn, Hiroshi Inagaki, Maximilian Grabner, and Louis Harold Gray. Among people deceased in 1966, Victor Kravchenko ranks 86. Before him are Camilo Torres Restrepo, Emil Brunner, Philipp Frank, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Charles Whitman, and Robert Rossen. After him are George Ohsawa, Nikolay Cherkasov, Alfred P. Sloan, Arthur Percival, Boris Podolsky, and Helen Kane.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko ranks 349 out of 1,365. Before him are Euphemia of Kiev (1100), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Felix Blumenfeld (1863), Michał Boym (1614), Mikołaj Rej (1505), and Larisa Shepitko (1938). After him are Petro Shelest (1908), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), Bohdan Stupka (1941), Géza Kalocsay (1913), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), and Salo Flohr (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko ranks 105. Before him are Abraham Zapruder (1905), Nikolai Kibalchich (1853), Eugen Schauman (1875), Grigory Petrovsky (1878), Nicolae Văcăroiu (1943), and Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963). After him are Petro Shelest (1908), Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (1849), Vitold Fokin (1932), Izyaslav of Polotsk (980), Alemdar Mustafa Pasha (1755), and Mikhail Rodzianko (1859).

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