People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Yi Dong-hwi 이동휘 Pioneer of Korean communism who fused the Bolshevik revolution with national liberation against Japanese rule
- Cho Man-sik 조만식 Kodang Cho Man-sik, the Korean Democratic Party leader removed from the northern political stage in 1946
- Yeo Un-hyeong 여운형 He met Lenin and Sun Yat-sen, then staked everything on left-right unity: the last Korean unificationist before partition
- Kim San 김산 Internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution, subject of Song of Arirang