n a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons
To fall from favor was to fall from sightto become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed.
You might be interested to see how an airbrush can be used to render even an Empress an unperson.
For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villainsLeon Trotsky had returned to the Soviet scene.