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People

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 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 3 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 3 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 3 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Freedom Union (Poland) 3 Democratic Union (Poland) 3

All 29 affiliations

Albania

Party of Labour of Albania 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 1

China

Kuomintang 1

Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 3

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1

Germany

Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 3 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 1

Hungary

Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 1

Poland

Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 2 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1 Freedom Union (Poland) 3 Democratic Union (Poland) 3

Romania

Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 4

Russia

Our Home – Russia 1

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1 African National Congress (ANC) 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1

United Kingdom

Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 2

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 3

Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Position

Any Left critics of Bolshevism 3 Socialist-bloc reform leader 6 Dissident 13 Non-Bolshevik socialists 4 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 4 Western Marxist theorists 2 Marxism and communism 24 Conservatism and Christian democracy 2

Citizenship

Any Poland 16 Romania 4 Czechoslovakia 3 Germany 3 United Kingdom 3 United States 3 Albania 2 Czechia 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 East Germany 1 France 1 Hungary 1 Korea 1 Madagascar 1 Russia 1 Soviet Union 1 Vietnam 1 Yugoslavia 1

Background

Any Poland 17 Germany 4 Czechia 3 Romania 3 Albania 2 Hungary 2 Korea 2 Russia 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 United Kingdom 2 Brazil 1 Bulgaria 1 China 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 Madagascar 1 Martinique 1 Serbia 1 Slovakia 1 United States 1 Vietnam 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 27 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 91 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 44 The last generation1985–1991 30

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3 The reform generation1976–현재 1

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 7

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 14 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 64 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 52

Social movements and organizing The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재 Clear all

52 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Wilhelm Pieck Wilhelm Pieck From the Spartacus League to GDR head of state, the sole founding member who lived the full arc of German communism Political and party leadership · East Germany state institutions 1876–1960
Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin A pragmatic statesman who carried trade-union power into postwar diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1881–1951
Yeo Un-hyeong 여운형 He met Lenin and Sun Yat-sen, then staked everything on left-right unity: the last Korean unificationist before partition Social movements and organizing · Kuomintang 1886–1947
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
Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west Social movements and organizing · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1895–1964
Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda A national hero of two world wars who became an unlikely last bastion of the Prague Spring Military command · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1895–1979
Imre Nagy Nagy Imre Premier for thirteen days Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1896–1958
Vasile Luca Vasile Luca Finance minister of the "Muscovite faction", purged on the pretext of the 1952 currency reform and dead in Aiud prison, a Székely Hungarian communist Political and party leadership · Romania state institutions 1898–1963
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
Sreten Žujović Сретен Жујовић A Stalin supporter at the heart of Tito’s party Social movements and organizing · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1899–1976
Choe Yong-gon 최용건 The Manchurian guerrilla who became the KPA's first commander and the DPRK's nominal head of state Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea state institutions 1900–1976
Milada Horáková Milada Horáková Czech politician who resisted both the Nazis and the Communists and was hanged in 1950 after a fabricated treason trial Social movements and organizing 1901–1950
Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1901–1963
Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1901–1986
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1902–1952
George Padmore George Padmore From Comintern Negro Bureau chief to architect of Pan-African independence, the revolutionary journalist who broke with empire Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1903–1959
Edward Mieczysław Ochab Edward Mieczysław Ochab The transitional First Secretary of 1956 who turned Khrushchev's Secret Speech into a mass document and then yielded power to Gomułka Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1906–1989
Ho Ka-i Алексей Хегай Principal organizer of the Workers' Party of Korea and leader of its early Soviet faction Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1908–1953
Teohari Georgescu Teohari Georgescu The first communist interior minister, builder of the Securitate, purged in 1952 alongside Pauker and Luca for "shielding" them Security, intelligence and policing · Romania state institutions 1908–1976
Raya Dunayevskaya Raya Dunayevskaya From Trotsky's secretary to founder of Marxist Humanism Social movements and organizing · Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1910–1987
Carlos Marighella Carlos Marighella From congressman to urban guerrilla theorist: the military dictatorship's enemy number one Social movements and organizing · Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1911–1969
Todor Hristov Zhivkov Тодор Христов Живков The Eastern Bloc's longest-serving leader, 35 years as Moscow's most loyal Balkan ally Political and party leadership · Bulgaria state institutions 1911–1998
Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire Co-founder of Négritude, pioneering critic of colonialism Literature and arts · French Communist Party (PCF) 1913–2008
Claudia Jones Claudia Jones The Black feminist Marxist who pioneered intersectional analysis, and created the Notting Hill Carnival Social movements and organizing · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1915–1964
Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee Boggs From first translator of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts to philosopher of Detroit's revolution Social movements and organizing 1915–2015
Tony Cliff Tony Cliff The Trotskyist theorist who defined the USSR as bureaucratic state capitalism and built Britain's Socialist Workers Party Social movements and organizing 1917–2000
Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu Romania's leader who combined independent diplomacy with a cult of personality Political and party leadership · Romania state institutions 1918–1989
Elena Ceaușescu Elena Ceaușescu The regime insider who fused political power with scientific prestige Political and party leadership · Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 1919–1989
Tố Hữu Tố Hữu Revolutionary poet laureate who, as the Party's ideology chief, policed its writers Literature and arts · Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1920–2002
Ruth First Ruth First The investigative journalist who exposed apartheid, the communist revolutionary who endured 117 days of solitary confinement Literature and arts · African National Congress (ANC) 1925–1982
Ramiz Alia Ramiz Alia Albania after Hoxha Political and party leadership · Party of Labour of Albania 1925–2011
Peter Fryer Peter Fryer A communist journalist who chose the scene over the party line Literature and arts · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1927–2006
Stanisław Kania Stanisław Kania A party leader who lost power while seeking compromise Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1927–2020
Stanisław Matyja Stanisław Matyja The carpenter who became the unofficial leader of Poznań June Social movements and organizing 1928–1985
Anna Walentynowicz Anna Walentynowicz From fired shipyard worker to 'mother of independent Poland' Social movements and organizing · Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 1929–2010
Jacek Jan Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń A dissident socialist who linked workers’ self-management to civic solidarity Social movements and organizing · Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 1934–2004
Andrzej Gwiazda Andrzej Gwiazda An uncompromising organiser of August Solidarity Social movements and organizing · Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 1935–
Marian Jurczyk Marian Jurczyk A shipyard leader caught between two landmark agreements Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1935–2014
Jan Ludwiczak Jan Ludwiczak The union leader whose arrest sparked the Wujek strike Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1937–2023
Chris Hani Chris Hani The SACP leader who kept the revolutionary flame alive after laying down arms Political and party leadership · South African Communist Party (SACP) 1942–1993
Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa Electrician who became president as the leader of Solidarity Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1943–
Angela Davis Angela Davis Marxist feminist philosopher who theorised the prison-industrial complex, co-founder of Critical Resistance Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1944–
Jan Rulewski Jan Rulewski A Solidarity leader beaten while linking workers’ and farmers’ demands Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1944–
Adam Michnik Adam Michnik The dissident strategist who negotiated a peaceful transition with communist power Social movements and organizing · Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 1946–
Jan Palach Jan Palach The Charles University student who set himself on fire against the Soviet occupation Social movements and organizing 1948–1969
Bogdan Michał Borusewicz Bogdan Borusewicz The Solidarity strategist who planned the 1980 Gdańsk strike, shaped the 21 Demands, and co-founded the MKS Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1949–
Alina Pienkowska Alina Pienkowska The shipyard nurse who, when the regime declared the strike over, held workers back and turned it into a solidarity strike Social movements and organizing · Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 1952–2002
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Владимир Владимирович Путин A ruler who recast the loss of the Soviet Union as a narrative of state restoration Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions 1952–
Henryka Krzywonos Henryka Krzywonos-Strycharska The tram driver who carried the strike beyond the shipyard Social movements and organizing 1953–

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