People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ivan Ribar Ivan Ribar A parliamentarian who carried constitutional politics into the Liberation Movement
- Dušan Simović Душан Симовић The soldier-premier caught between a coup and defeat
- Nurija Pozderac Nurija Pozderac A Bosnian politician who embodied a multi-ethnic resistance coalition
- Ivan Šubašić Ivan Šubašić A conciliator between the monarchy and the national liberation movement
- Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz Tito Yugoslavia's partisan leader who chose non-alignment
- Draža Mihailović Драгољуб Михаиловић A Serbian nationalist commander who sought to restore the monarchy
- Paul Karađorđević Pavle Karađorđević A regent pressed toward the Axis while trying to keep Yugoslavia out of war
- Andrija Hebrang Andrija Hebrang A leader caught between revolutionary national politics and party centralism
- Sreten Žujović Сретен Жујовић A Stalin supporter at the heart of Tito’s party
- Arso Radivojev Jovanović Арсо Радивојев Јовановић The staff officer who organized the Partisan war
- Vladimir Velebit Vladimir Velebit Yugoslav partisan-diplomat whom Stalin named a British spy to break off correspondence
- Aleksandar Ranković Александар Ранковић Tito's third man, who directed the Cominform purges
- Edvard Kardelj Edvard Kardelj Chief theoretician of workers' self-management and Tito's closest ideological collaborator
- Milovan Djilas Милован Ђилас Yugoslav dissident who attacked Western communist parties at the Cominform and later dissected the communist system in The New Class
- Boris Kidrič Boris Kidrič Yugoslav revolutionary who designed the economic theory of workers' self-management
- Vladimir Bakarić Vladimir Bakarić A communist leader who negotiated republican interests within federal socialism
- Vladimir Žerjavić Vladimir Žerjavić The demographer who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses
- Peko Dapčević Пеко Дапчевић A Partisan commander who helped turn insurgent formations into a regular army
- Bogoljub Kočović Bogoljub Kočović An independent statistician who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses
- Peter II Petar II Karađorđević The last king who carried Yugoslavia’s royal legitimacy into exile