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Carl Legien Carl Legien German trade-union leader who signed the 1918 agreement with Stinnes and met the Kapp Putsch of 1920 with a general strike Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1861–1920
Hugo Haase Hugo Haase Lawyer who founded the USPD against the war and co-chaired the Council of People’s Deputies with Ebert in 1918 Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1863–1919
Arthur Henderson Arthur Henderson British Labour organizer and politician who led the international disarmament effort. Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1863–1935
Ramsay MacDonald Ramsay MacDonald Politician who gave up the Labour chairmanship in 1914 over war credits and later became Britain’s first Labour prime minister Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1866–1937
Józef Piłsudski Józef Piłsudski The soldier-politician who began as a socialist, became Head of State of reborn Poland, broke the Red Army's westward drive at Warsaw in 1920, and later ruled through a coup-built authoritarian regime Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1867–1935
Noe Zhordania ნოე ჟორდანია Leader of the Georgian Mensheviks who headed the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918–1921 Political and party leadership · Georgia state institutions 1868–1953
Francisco Largo Caballero Francisco Largo Caballero The UGT worker-leader they called the Spanish Lenin, a prime minister broken between revolution and war Government and administration · Spanish Republic state institutions 1869–1946
Julián Besteiro Julián Besteiro PSOE right-wing leader, Speaker of the Cortes; joined Casado's coup, refused exile, and died in Franco's prison Political and party leadership · Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 1870–1940
Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions 1870–1944
Karl Renner Karl Renner Austrian Social Democratic leader who signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain and founded the Second Republic in 1945 Political and party leadership · Austria state institutions 1870–1950
Friedrich Ebert Friedrich Ebert SPD leader who headed the revolutionary government of 1918, steered the councils into parliamentary democracy and became the first president Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1871–1925
Giacinto Menotti Serrati Giacinto Menotti Serrati Italian Socialist leader who took his party into the Comintern but refused to expel the reformists, causing the Livorno split of 1921 Political and party leadership · Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1872–1926
Léon Blum Léon Blum France's first Socialist prime minister, who left behind paid holidays and the 40-hour week Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1872–1950
Gyula Peidl Peidl Gyula Printer and Social Democratic leader who headed the six-day “trade-union government” after the fall of the Soviet Republic Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions 1873–1943
Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1873–1963
Arthur Crispien Arthur Crispien German social-democratic politician and co-chair of the Independent Social Democratic Party. Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1875–1946
Hermann Müller Hermann Müller A Social Democratic politician of the Weimar Republic who served twice as chancellor. Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1876–1931
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Sándor Garbai Garbai Sándor Bricklayer turned Social Democrat who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Hungarian Soviet Republic Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions 1879–1947
Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia Diplomacy and international organization · Georgia state institutions 1881–1954
Väinö Alfred Tanner Väinö Alfred Tanner The Social Democratic realist who faced Stalin as Finland's Winter War foreign minister, rising from the cooperative movement Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Finland 1881–1966
Paul Levi Paul Levi From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1883–1930
Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț Bessarabian politician who presided over Sfatul Țării and the Moldavian Democratic Republic and saw through its union with Romania Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1884–1940
Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first Government and administration · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1884–1971
Ludovic-Oscar Frossard Ludovic-Oscar Frossard SFIO general secretary who led the Tours vote to join the Comintern, became the first PCF general secretary and left in 1923 Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1889–1946
Juan Negrín Juan Negrín The physiologist trained in Leipzig who sent the Republic's gold to Moscow and chose to fight to the end as its last prime minister Government and administration · Spanish Republic state institutions 1892–1956
Marceau Pivert Marceau Pivert The Socialist left's tribune who wrote 'Everything is possible', the Popular Front's left frontier Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1895–1958