People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Government and administration 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 985 Soviet Union state institutions 955 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 128 Communist Party of China 55 People’s Republic of China state institutions 41 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 32 Comintern 26 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 21 Yemen state institutions 1

All 130 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistan state institutions 3 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albania state institutions 4 Party of Labour of Albania 4

Angola

Angola state institutions 7 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 9

Austria

Austria state institutions 1

Benin

Benin state institutions 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 2

Bulgaria

Bulgaria state institutions 2 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 5

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutions 1

Cambodia

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

Chile

Communist Party of Chile 1

China

Communist Party of China 55 Kuomintang 5 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 People’s Republic of China state institutions 41

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo state institutions 3 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 3

Cuba

Cuba state institutions 4 Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 5 26th of July Movement 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 11 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 15 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 3

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 9 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 5 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 7

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 21 East Germany state institutions 17

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopia state institutions 3 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 3 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 4

France

France state institutions 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 12 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 2 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 4

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 32 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 15 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 13

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 2 Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) 1

Grenada

Grenada state institutions 1 New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 19 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 21 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 7 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 9 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 4 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 1

India

Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 3

International organizations

Comintern 26 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1

Italy

Italy state institutions 1 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 5 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 3

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 3

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutions 1

Laos

Laos state institutions 2 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 2

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutions 1

Madagascar

Madagascar state institutions 1

Moldova

Moldova state institutions 1

Mongolia

Mongolia state institutions 4 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 7

Mozambique

Mozambique state institutions 2 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Poland state institutions 10 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 12 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 10 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 9 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 7 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 4

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romania state institutions 6 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 7

Russia

Russian Empire state institutions 2 Russian Federation state institutions 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 8 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 128 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11 United Russia 5 Our Home – Russia 1

Somalia

Somalia state institutions 3

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 3 Workers' Party of South Korea 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 985 Soviet Union state institutions 955

Spain

Spain state institutions 1 Spanish Republic state institutions 3 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 5 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 1

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutions 1

Ukraine

Ukraine state institutions 1 Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions 3 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate) state institutions 1 ↳ Soviet Ukraine state institutions 2

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 7

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 11 Socialist Party of America 4

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan state institutions 1

Vietnam

Vietnam state institutions 9 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 11

Yemen

Yemen state institutions 1 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 6 South Yemen state institutions 4

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 8 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 10
Position(set)
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Yemen 1
Background
Any Yemen 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Yemen state institutions Marxism and communism Clear all

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas

حيدر أبو بكر العطاس
Yemen state institutions Marxism and communism Yemen Yemen 1939–

South Yemen's last head of state and the united republic's first prime minister

When the January 1986 gunfire broke out he was visiting India; he then negotiated a settlement in the USSR before returning to take the presidency.

A Hadhrami electrical engineer who rose through the National Liberation Front to become a minister and prime minister of South Yemen. After the January 1986 Aden fighting, he became president and steadied the state; as South Yemen's last head of state he led the 1990 unification and became the first prime minister of united Yemen. In the 1994 civil war he served as premier of the breakaway southern government, then went into exile.

Career timeline
  • 1960Joined the Arab Nationalist Movement
  • 1963Joined the National Liberation Front (NLF)
  • 1969–1978Minister of Public Works, Transport and Construction
  • 1985–1986Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
  • 1986–1990Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council (head of state)
  • 1990–1994First prime minister of the united Republic of Yemen
  • 1994Prime minister of the secessionist Democratic Republic of Yemen
  • 1994–2003In exile in Jordan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia