People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin A pragmatic statesman who carried trade-union power into postwar diplomacy
- Clement Attlee Clement Attlee The laconic reformer who replaced Churchill mid-Potsdam and built Britain's postwar welfare state
- Herbert Vere Evatt Herbert Vere Evatt Australia's Foreign Minister who led the small and medium powers' fight against the great-power veto at San Francisco
- Anthony Eden Anthony Eden A British diplomat of war and decolonisation
- Thomas Brimelow Thomas Brimelow A practical architect of nuclear diplomacy
- Tony Cliff Tony Cliff The Trotskyist theorist who defined the USSR as bureaucratic state capitalism and built Britain's Socialist Workers Party
- Peter Fryer Peter Fryer A communist journalist who chose the scene over the party line
- Rodric Quentin Braithwaite Rodric Braithwaite From ambassador to Moscow during perestroika to author of Afgantsy, the British diplomat who knew Russia from the inside