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People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 174 Government and administration 102 Legislature and state representation 12 Monarchs and royalty 3 Military command 48 Security, intelligence and policing 26 Diplomacy and international organization 37 Economy, finance and planning 17 Industry and production 3 Agriculture and land policy 3 Ideology and propaganda 12 Social movements and organizing 52 Scholarship and theory 11 Education 2 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 18 Religion 6 Law and justice 8

Affiliation

Most people

Any United States state institutions 17 Hungary state institutions 15 Democratic Party (United States) 8 Germany state institutions 6 Republican Party (United States) 6 Poland state institutions 5 East Germany state institutions 5 Czechoslovakia state institutions 4

All 49 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistan state institutions 2

Albania

Albania state institutions 1

Angola

Angola state institutions 1

Benin

Benin state institutions 3

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutions 1

Cambodia

People’s Republic of Kampuchea state institutions 1

Chile

Chile state institutions 1

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo state institutions 4 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 1

Cuba

Cuba state institutions 3

Czechia

Czechia state institutions 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 4 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1

DR Congo

DR Congo state institutions 1

East Germany

East Germany state institutions 5

Ethiopia

Ethiopia state institutions 2

Finland

Finland state institutions 2

France

France state institutions 2

Germany

Germany state institutions 6 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 2 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Ghana

Ghana state institutions 1

Grenada

Grenada state institutions 1

Hungary

Hungary state institutions 15 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 2 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 1

India

India state institutions 1

Laos

Laos state institutions 2

Madagascar

Madagascar state institutions 2

Mozambique

Mozambique state institutions 1

Poland

Poland state institutions 5 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1

Romania

Romania state institutions 1

Russia

Russian Federation state institutions 1

Somalia

Somalia state institutions 2

South Korea

South Korea state institutions 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 3

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutions 1

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutions 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 1

United States

United States state institutions 17 Democratic Party (United States) 8 Republican Party (United States) 6

Vietnam

Vietnam state institutions 3 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 2

Yemen

Yemen state institutions 2 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 1

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 1

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 9 Socialist-bloc reform leader 6 Dissident 2 Non-Bolshevik socialists 4 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 6 Marxism and communism 41 Liberalism and republicanism 4 Conservatism and Christian democracy 12 Agrarianism and peasant parties 3 Nationalism 1

Citizenship

Any United States 17 Hungary 15 Germany 6 Poland 6 East Germany 5 Congo - Brazzaville 4 Benin 3 Cuba 3 Czechoslovakia 3 Vietnam 3 Afghanistan 2 Czechia 2 Ethiopia 2 Finland 2 France 2 Laos 2 Madagascar 2 Somalia 2 Yemen 2 Albania 1 Angola 1 Burkina Faso 1 Cambodia 1 Chile 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 DR Congo 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 India 1 Mozambique 1 Romania 1 Russia 1 Singapore 1 South Korea 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1 United Kingdom 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any United States 16 Hungary 15 Germany 11 Poland 7 Czechia 5 Congo - Brazzaville 4 Benin 3 Vietnam 3 Afghanistan 2 Cuba 2 Ethiopia 2 Finland 2 France 2 Laos 2 Madagascar 2 Somalia 2 Yemen 2 Albania 1 Angola 1 Burkina Faso 1 Cambodia 1 Chile 1 China 1 Croatia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 DR Congo 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 India 1 Mozambique 1 Romania 1 Russia 1 South Korea 1 Spain 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1 United Kingdom 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 17 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 20 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 11 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 7 The last generation1985–1991 20

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 1 The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 2 The reform generation1976–현재 2

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 12

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 109 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 102

Government and administration The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재 Clear all

102 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Juho Kusti Paasikivi Juho Kusti Paasikivi Finnish realist who faced Stalin at the 1939 Moscow negotiations and later forged the Paasikivi doctrine of Cold War neutrality Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1870–1956
Rhee Syngman 이승만 First president of South Korea who demanded unification by force and refused to sign the armistice Government and administration · South Korea state institutions 1875–1965
Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer The chancellor who made provisional statehood durable Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1876–1967
Andreas Hermes Andreas Hermes Weimar finance minister who founded the CDU in the Soviet zone in 1945 and was deposed for opposing the land reform Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1878–1964
Ivan Ribar Ivan Ribar A parliamentarian who carried constitutional politics into the Liberation Movement Legislature and state representation · Yugoslavia state institutions 1881–1968
James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1882–1972
Otto Nuschke Otto Nuschke Kaiser’s successor at the head of the East German CDU, who brought it into line with the SED as deputy prime minister Government and administration · East Germany state institutions 1883–1957
Clement Attlee Clement Attlee The laconic reformer who replaced Churchill mid-Potsdam and built Britain's postwar welfare state Government and administration · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1967
Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš The last democratic president, who tried to topple a government with resignations and instead handed it to Gottwald Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1884–1948
Petru Groza Petru Groza The "red bourgeois", a landowning lawyer who never joined the party yet served as the communist regime's first prime minister and head of state Government and administration · Romania state institutions 1884–1958
Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Government and administration · United States state institutions 1884–1972
Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1886–1967
Omer Nishani Omer Nishani Albanian physician and politician, the people's republic's formal first head of state Social movements and organizing 1887–1954
Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser Christian Democrat who led the CDU in the Soviet zone until SMAD removed him, then became West Germany’s minister for all-German affairs Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1888–1961
Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1889–1953
Jawaharlal Nehru जवाहरलाल नेहरू India's first prime minister and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement Government and administration · India state institutions 1889–1964
Kim Tu-bong 김두봉 Independence activist, linguist, and Yan'an faction leader who served as the first head of state of the DPRK Political and party leadership · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1889–1958?
Zoltán Tildy Tildy Zoltán The Reformed pastor-president who declared neutrality before Soviet tanks Political and party leadership · Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 1889–1961
Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger Pro-Soviet Social Democrat and first post-liberation premier who sided with the Communists in 1948 and merged his party into theirs Government and administration · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1891–1976
Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being Government and administration · East Germany state institutions 1894–1964
John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy A pragmatic architect of the postwar U.S. international order Government and administration · United States state institutions 1895–1989
Imre Nagy Nagy Imre Premier for thirteen days Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1896–1958
József Révai Révai József Overseer of culture in the Rákosi era Ideology and propaganda · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1898–1959
István Dobi Dobi István Smallholder turned titular head of state Legislature and state representation · Hungary state institutions 1898–1968
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953 Industry and production · East Germany state institutions 1899–1975
Georges Bidault Georges Bidault From Resistance chief to architect of the Marshall Plan response, the foreign minister who told Molotov that Soviet actions divided Europe Government and administration · France state institutions 1899–1983
Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson Two-time presidential nominee who pressed the Soviet Union over its missiles in Cuba at the UN Security Council Government and administration · United States state institutions 1900–1965
Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen The long-serving president who made neutrality a national strategy Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1900–1986
Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm Politician who became State of Vietnam premier in 1954, ousted Bảo Đại and was South Vietnam’s first president until killed in 1963 Government and administration · Vietnam state institutions 1901–1963
Fulgencio Batista Fulgencio Batista A Cuban ruler who shifted between electoral legitimacy and military power Government and administration · Cuba state institutions 1901–1973
Souvanna Phouma ສຸວັນນະພູມາ Neutralist leader and the last royal prime minister of Laos Government and administration · Laos state institutions 1901–1984
Fred Oelßner Fred Oelßner Economist and the SED’s chief ideologue until 1958, when he was expelled from the Politburo in the Schirdewan affair Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1903–1977
Ferenc Nagy Nagy Ferenc Smallholder premier of Hungary's second republic, forced out by Soviet-backed communists Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1903–1979
Zoltán Vas Vas Zoltán Rákosi-era planning chief who fell from grace and joined Imre Nagy Economy, finance and planning · Hungary state institutions 1903–1983
Mihály Farkas Farkas Mihály Defence minister in Rákosi's ruling foursome Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1904–1965
James Webb James Edwin Webb The administrator who organized Apollo Government and administration · United States state institutions 1906–1992
Phạm Văn Đồng Phạm Văn Đồng Ho Chi Minh's closest lieutenant and Vietnam's longest-serving prime minister, governing for 32 years Government and administration · Vietnam state institutions 1906–2000
Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France French prime minister who promised a ceasefire within four months after Điện Biên Phủ and concluded the 1954 Geneva Accords Government and administration · France state institutions 1907–1982
Paul Nitze Paul Nitze A Cold War strategist who moved between nuclear buildup and arms control Government and administration · United States state institutions 1907–2004
Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson A Cold War president caught between reform and war Government and administration · United States state institutions 1908–1973
Salvador Guillermo Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende First elected Marxist head of state; pursued the peaceful 'Chilean road to socialism' (copper, land, cybernetics) until the 1973 coup Government and administration · Chile state institutions 1908–1973
Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah Architect of Pan-African Marxism who led sub-Saharan Africa's first independence Political and party leadership 1909–1972
Mohammad Daoud Khan محمد داود خان Afghan prince who overthrew his cousin to found a republic, then was killed five years later in the same palace by a communist coup Government and administration · Afghanistan state institutions 1909–1978
Piotr Jaroszewicz Piotr Jaroszewicz The premier of technocratic growth Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1909–1992
Souphanouvong ສຸພານຸວົງ Pathet Lao and the first presidency Legislature and state representation · Laos state institutions 1909–1995
Bruno Leuschner Bruno Leuschner East German planner who ran planning in the German Economic Commission and then chaired the State Planning Commission Economy, finance and planning · East Germany state institutions 1910–1965
Józef Cyrankiewicz Józef Cyrankiewicz A resistance survivor who became a guardian of the system Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1911–1989
Ferenc Donáth Donáth Ferenc A politician who linked revolution and reform while carrying the wounds of dictatorship Agriculture and land policy · Hungary state institutions 1913–1986
Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1913–1992

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