50.1% of matchups won
367 matchups
Elo 1495
tracked 2025/05/17 → 2026/09/05
mission: Establish a socialist state · Political and economic reform · politicians
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing56%
picked as helping wellbeing
288 matchups
28%
picked as hurting wellbeing
79 matchups
On balance people see it as helping.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
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Joseph Stalin
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15.3% wins · leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
02
Mikhail Gorbachev
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41.3% wins · leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
03
Nikita Khrushchev
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40.9% wins · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
04
Leon Trotsky
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40.8% wins · Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
05
Fidel Castro
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37.6% wins · Cuban politician and revolutionary (1926–2016)
Known for
- October Revolution
- Civil War victory
- New Economic Policy
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Foundation of the Soviet state
Based on 367 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/05. Full rankings ·
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