People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 19 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 12 Germany state institutions 9 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 9 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 8 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 8 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 6 Democratic Party (United States) 1

All 44 affiliations

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Austria

Austria state institutions 1

Belarus

Belarus state institutions 2 Belarusian Socialist Hramada 2

Belgium

Belgium state institutions 1

Chile

Chile state institutions 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 2

Finland

Finland state institutions 1 Social Democratic Party of Finland 2

France

France state institutions 5 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 8

Georgia

Georgia state institutions 2

Germany

Germany state institutions 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 19 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 8

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 5 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 3

International organizations

Comintern 1 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1

Italy

Italy state institutions 1 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 3

Poland

Poland state institutions 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Romania

Romania state institutions 2

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 2 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 19 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 2 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 9 Russian Provisional Government state institutions 3 Russian Orthodox Church 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 12

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 3 Soviet Union state institutions 2

Spain

Spanish Republic state institutions 2 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 3

Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 1 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 6

United States

Democratic Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 2
Position(set)
Any Counter-revolutionary forces 6 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Liberalism and republicanism 5 Conservatism and Christian democracy 1
Citizenship
Any United States 1
Background
Any United States 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1
Democratic Party (United States) Non-Bolshevik socialists Clear all
GlossaryDemocratic Party (United States)

Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party of America Non-Bolshevik socialists United States United States 1855–1926 ○ Heart failure

Five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and pioneer of industrial railroad unionism

At his 1918 sentencing he declared: "While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

The most iconic figure of American socialism and a pioneer of industrial unionism. After leading the American Railway Union through the Pullman Strike of 1894, he embraced Marxism in prison and helped found the Socialist Party of America (1901) and the IWW (1905). He ran for president five times, winning 6.0% in 1912, and from an Atlanta prison cell in 1920 he won over 914,000 votes, the high-water mark of American socialist electoral politics.

Career timeline
  • 1875Joined Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
  • 1880–1893BLF Grand Secretary-Treasurer & magazine editor
  • 1885Indiana State Representative (Democrat)
  • 1893–1897Founder & president, American Railway Union
  • 1901Co-founder, Socialist Party of America
  • 1905Founding member, Industrial Workers of the World
  • 1900–1920Socialist Party presidential candidate (5 campaigns)
  • 1919–1921Imprisoned, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary