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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 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 16 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 16 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 13 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 11 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 8 Czechoslovakiastate 7 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 7 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7

All 84 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistanstate 2 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albaniastate 1 Party of Labour of Albania 3

Angola

Angolastate 2 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 6

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgariastate 3 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 3

Cambodia

Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 2 Democratic Kampucheastate 2 People’s Republic of Kampucheastate 1

China

Communist Party of China 1

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congostate 2 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 2

Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 4

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 7 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 13 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 6 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 4 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 3

DR Congo

Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 16 East Germanystate 3

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 1 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 4 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 7 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Grenada

New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 2 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 8 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 7 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 11 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 2 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 3

India

Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1

Italy

Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 3 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1

Laos

Laosstate 1 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Mongolia

Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Polandstate 3 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 16 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 3 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 7 Polish People's Party (PSL) 2 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1 Freedom Union (Poland) 2 Democratic Union (Poland) 1

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 4 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 5

Russia

United Russia 1

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of South Korea 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1

United States

United States state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1 Democratic Party (United States) 2 Republican Party (United States) 1

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 2 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 6

Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 5 South Yemenstate 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 4 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 4

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 3 Socialist-bloc reform leader 18 Dissident 7 Non-Bolshevik socialists 8 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 17 Marxism and communism 119 Liberalism and republicanism 2 Conservatism and Christian democracy 8 Agrarianism and peasant parties 3 Nationalism 1

Citizenship

Any Poland 20 Hungary 19 East Germany 15 Czechoslovakia 12 Germany 12 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 8 Cambodia 7 Romania 6 Angola 5 Vietnam 5 Yemen 5 Afghanistan 4 Bulgaria 4 Yugoslavia 4 Albania 3 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Cuba 3 Czechia 3 Italy 3 Laos 3 United Kingdom 3 United States 3 Ethiopia 2 Madagascar 2 Mozambique 2 Portugal 2 Argentina 1 DR Congo 1 France 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 India 1 Indonesia 1 Japan 1 Korea 1 Mongolia 1 Russia 1 South Africa 1 Soviet Union 1 Spain 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1

Background

Any Germany 27 Hungary 20 Poland 20 Czechia 9 Cambodia 7 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 7 Angola 5 Romania 5 Vietnam 5 Yemen 5 Afghanistan 4 Bulgaria 4 Slovakia 4 Albania 3 Congo - Brazzaville 3 Italy 3 Korea 3 Laos 3 Mozambique 3 United Kingdom 3 Croatia 2 Cuba 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Ethiopia 2 Madagascar 2 Spain 2 United States 2 Argentina 1 DR Congo 1 Finland 1 France 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guinea-Bissau 1 India 1 Indonesia 1 Japan 1 Mongolia 1 Russia 1 Serbia 1 Slovenia 1 South Africa 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 27 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 60 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 33 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 46 The last generation1985–1991 67

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 3 The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 16 People of the Mao era1949–1976 13 The reform generation1976–현재 8

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 17

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 16 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 148 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 174

Political and party leadership The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재 Clear all

174 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 1876–1960
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
Cho Man-sik 조만식 Kodang Cho Man-sik, the Korean Democratic Party leader removed from the northern political stage in 1946 Political and party leadership · Democratic Party of Korea 1883–1950
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
Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953 Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1884–1957
Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1884–1975
Ho Hon 허헌 From civil-rights lawyer of the March 1st Movement to first Chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly: a progressive nationalist Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of South Korea 1885–1951
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 1886–1967
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
Zoltán Tildy Tildy Zoltán The Reformed pastor-president who declared neutrality before Soviet tanks Political and party leadership · Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 1889–1961
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 1889–1958?
Ho Chi Minh Hồ Chí Minh He took on France, Japan and America in turn to win Vietnam's independence Political and party leadership · Vietnam 1890–1969
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 1891–1976
Bolesław Bierut Bolesław Bierut Stalin's most trusted East European proxy, architect of Poland's Stalinist system and guardian of the Oder–Neisse border Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1892–1956
Mátyás Rákosi Rákosi Mátyás Architect of Hungary's Sovietization who built one-party rule through 'salami tactics' Political and party leadership · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1892–1971
Max Fechner Max Fechner First East German justice minister, dismissed and imprisoned in 1953 after opposing the prosecution of striking workers Law and justice · East Germany 1892–1973
Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz Tito Yugoslavia's partisan leader who chose non-alignment Political and party leadership · Yugoslavia 1892–1980
Nikola Dimitrov Petkov Никола Димитров Петков Agrarian leader who opposed communist rule and was hanged after a show trial Political and party leadership 1893–1947
Wilhelm Zaisser Wilhelm Zaisser First East German Minister for State Security, purged in 1953 after trying to replace Ulbricht Security, intelligence and policing · East Germany 1893–1958
Ana Pauker Ana Pauker The world's first woman foreign minister and head of the Romanian party's "Muscovite faction", brought down by Gheorghiu-Dej's 1952 purge Political and party leadership · Romania 1893–1960
Palmiro Togliatti Palmiro Togliatti 'Il Migliore': the strategist who led Western Europe's largest communist party for forty years Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1893–1964
Hermann Matern Hermann Matern SED Politburo member and chairman of the Central Party Control Commission who stood by Ulbricht in 1953 Political and party leadership · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1893–1971
Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht German communist leader who built the GDR and erected the Berlin Wall Political and party leadership · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1893–1973
Kyuichi Tokuda 徳田球一 First JCP chairman who endured 18 years in imperial prisons Political and party leadership · Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1894–1953
Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being Government and administration · East Germany 1894–1964
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 Political and party leadership · Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1894–1965
Friedrich Ebert Jr. Friedrich Ebert junior A social democrat who moved from municipal politics into state power amid Germany's division Political and party leadership · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1894–1979
Kurt Schumacher Kurt Schumacher SPD leader who survived ten years in Nazi camps and, after the war, refused the merger with the Communists Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1895–1952
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
Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1896–1953
Imre Nagy Nagy Imre Premier for thirteen days Government and administration · Hungary 1896–1958
Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos The PCF's number two for 37 years: a Stalinist who moved between parliament and the underground Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF) 1896–1975
Traicho Kostov Трайчо Костов Bulgaria's number two, who ran the repression and fell to a Stalinist purge Political and party leadership · Bulgaria 1897–1949
Anthony Eden Anthony Eden A British diplomat of war and decolonisation Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions 1897–1977
Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Erhard The West German economic statesman who shaped currency reform and the social market economy Economy, finance and planning · Germany state institutions 1897–1977
József Révai Révai József Overseer of culture in the Rákosi era Ideology and propaganda · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1898–1959
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 1898–1963
István Dobi Dobi István Smallholder turned titular head of state Legislature and state representation · Hungary 1898–1968
Ernő Gerő Gerő Ernő Hungary's last Stalinist First Secretary; his three months in power ignited the revolution Political and party leadership · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1898–1980
Heinrich Rau Heinrich Rau Communist who chaired the German Economic Commission, the forerunner of the GDR government, and led East German economic policy Economy, finance and planning · East Germany 1899–1961
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland 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 1899–1975
Pak Hon-yong 박헌영 Architect of the Korean Communist Party's rebirth; leader of the Workers' Party of South Korea Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Korea 1900–1955
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 1900–1976
Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský KSČ General Secretary who organized the February 1948 coup and built Czechoslovakia's people's democracy as its operational architect Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1901–1952
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
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Romania's first communist leader who turned the country from a Soviet satellite toward a semi-autonomous course Political and party leadership · Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 1901–1965

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