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Feliks Yakovlevich Kon Феликс Яковлевич Кон From Warsaw boy patriot to Comintern old revolutionary: the Pole who returned in the sealed train Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1864–1941
Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт From Cheka deputy to civil aviation: the revolution's all-weather organizer Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1879–1938
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Bolesław Bierut Bolesław Bierut Stalin's most trusted East European proxy, architect of Poland's Stalinist system and guardian of the Oder–Neisse border Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1892–1956
Ignace Stanislavovich Reiss Игнатий Станиславович Рейсс Soviet illegal who broke publicly with Stalin and was murdered by the NKVD Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1899–1937
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland 1899–1964
Jakub Berman Jakub Berman An architect of Stalinist power in Poland Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1901–1984
Władysław Gomułka Władysław Gomułka The national communist who returned in the Polish October of 1956 to test a 'Polish road to socialism' Political and party leadership · Poland 1905–1982
Edward Mieczysław Ochab Edward Mieczysław Ochab The transitional First Secretary of 1956 who turned Khrushchev's Secret Speech into a mass document and then yielded power to Gomułka Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1906–1989
Stefan Staszewski Stefan Staszewski The PZPR Warsaw first secretary whose unauthorized print run of 15,000 copies broke Khrushchev's Secret Speech out of party control Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1906–1989
Isaac Deutscher Isaac Deutscher Marxist historian of Trotsky's definitive biography, who coined the 'non-Jewish Jew' Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1907–1967