People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Omer Nishani Omer Nishani
Albanian physician and politician, the people's republic's formal first head of state
Social movements and organizing
1887–1954
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Koço Tashko Koço Tashko
Albanian communist activist and diplomat
Diplomacy and international organization · Albania state institutions
1899–1984
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Gjergj Jaçim Kokoshi Gjergj Kokoshi
From antifascist resistance to postwar opposition
Education · Albania state institutions
1904–1960
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Enver Hoxha Enver Hoxha
Albania's leader who made isolation and self-reliance state policy
Political and party leadership · Albania state institutions
1908–1985
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Koçi son of Dhimitër Xoxe Koçi Xoxe
Albania's postwar interior minister and deputy premier
Security, intelligence and policing · Albania state institutions
1911–1949
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Nako Spiru Nako Spiru
Albanian communist economic planner who led domestic criticism of Yugoslav economic control
Economy, finance and planning · Albania state institutions
1918–1947
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Ramiz Alia Ramiz Alia
Albania after Hoxha
Political and party leadership · Party of Labour of Albania
1925–2011
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Gentiana Kera Gentiana Kera
Historian of socialist-era Albanian historiography and its party control
Scholarship and theory