People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 1 Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 185 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Communist Party of China 36 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 20 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 20 Soviet Union state institutions 19 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 17 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 16 Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

All 148 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistan state institutions 2 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albania state institutions 1 Party of Labour of Albania 3

Angola

Angola state institutions 2 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 6

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Austria

Austria state institutions 1

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan state institutions 1

Belgium

Belgium state institutions 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgaria state institutions 3 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 6

Cambodia

Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 2 Democratic Kampuchea state institutions 2 People’s Republic of Kampuchea state institutions 1

Chile

Communist Party of Chile 1

China

Communist Party of China 36 Kuomintang 6 Beiyang government and warlords 1 People’s Republic of China state institutions 10

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo state institutions 2 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 2

Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 4

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 7 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 13 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 7 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 4 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 3

DR Congo

Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 16 East Germany state institutions 3

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopia state institutions 1 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 4 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 4 National Progressive Party (Finland) 1

France

France state institutions 2 French revolutionary movement 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 13 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 Girondins 3 Jacobin Club 1 The Mountain (Montagnards) 4 Cordeliers Club 2 Feuillants 3 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 9 Action Française 1 Enragés 1 Jacobin Club 6

Georgia

Georgia state institutions 1

Germany

Germany state institutions 3 Nazi party and regime 4 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 20 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 20 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 2 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 8

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Grenada

New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 7 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 11 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 4 Unity Party (Hungary) 2 Party of National Unity / Party of Hungarian Life (NEP/MÉP) 3 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 3

India

Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 3

International organizations

Comintern 4

Italy

Italy state institutions 1 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 6 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 6 National Fascist Party (PNF) 3

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 3

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutions 1

Laos

Laos state institutions 1 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Latvia

Popular Front of Latvia 1

Lithuania

Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania) 2

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 2 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 6

Mozambique

Mozambique state institutions 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Poland state institutions 3 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 17 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 5 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 8 Polish People's Party (PSL) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 5 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 3 Freedom Union (Poland) 2 Democratic Union (Poland) 1

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romania state institutions 4 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 5

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 2 Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 7 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 8 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 4 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 1

South Africa

South Africa state institutions 1 South African Communist Party (SACP) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of South Korea 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 185 ↳ Left Communists 1 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 ↳ Workers' Opposition 1 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1 Soviet Union state institutions 19

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 4 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 4

Turkey

Turkey state institutions 2

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 2 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 4 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 4

United States

United States state institutions 3 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 7 Democratic Party (United States) 3 Republican Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 3

Vietnam

Vietnam state institutions 2 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 6

Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 5 South Yemen state institutions 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 4 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 6
Citizenship
Any Estonia 1
Background
Any Estonia 1
Era
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The last generation1985–1991 1
Political and party leadership Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) Clear all

Edgar Savisaar

Edgar Savisaar
Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) Estonia Estonian 1950–2022 ○ Natural causes

Architect of mass mobilization and independence politics

On live television on 13 April 1988, he proposed the idea of a Popular Front.

Edgar Savisaar was an Estonian politician and co-founder of the Popular Front of Estonia, helping turn demands for reform into mass politics. On live television on 13 April 1988, he proposed a Popular Front to support perestroika; the movement soon pressed for democracy and the restoration of Estonian independence. He became the first prime minister of restored Estonia, while economic hardship and later political controversies exposed the limits and tensions of his governing project.

Career timeline
  • 1973Graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in history
  • 1980–1988Worked on economic planning in the state institutions of the Estonian SSR
  • 1988–1989Academic director at Mainor and co-founder of the Popular Front of Estonia
  • 1989–1990Deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and head of the State Planning Committee of the Estonian SSR
  • 1990–1992First prime minister of the Republic of Estonia
  • 1992–1995Vice-speaker of the Riigikogu
  • 2001–2004Mayor of Tallinn
  • 2005–2007Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications
  • 2007–2015Mayor of Tallinn