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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassical painter of the French Revolution
Literature and arts · French First Republic state institutions
1748–1825
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Emmanuel Sieyès Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Clergyman and political theorist of Third Estate sovereignty
Political and party leadership · French revolutionary movement
1748–1836
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Georges Couthon Georges Auguste Couthon
Committee of Public Safety member allied with Robespierre
Government and administration · French First Republic state institutions
1755–1794
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Bertrand Barère Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
Convention deputy who bridged the Plain and Committee of Public Safety
Government and administration · French First Republic state institutions
1755–1841
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Jacques René Hébert Jacques René Hébert
Revolutionary journalist whose Le Père Duchesne spoke to a sans-culotte readership
Political and party leadership · Cordeliers Club
1757–1794
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Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien Robespierre
Jacobin politician who argued for subsistence rights and revolutionary government
Political and party leadership · Jacobin Club
1758–1794
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Alexandre de Lameth Alexandre de Lameth
Politician who moved from the revolutionary triumvirate to the Feuillants
Political and party leadership · Feuillants
1760–1829
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Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
Paris Commune prosecutor prominent in dechristianisation
Political and party leadership · Jacobin Club
1763–1794
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Léger-Félicité Sonthonax Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
Civil commissioner who proclaimed emancipation in northern Saint-Domingue
Government and administration · French First Republic state institutions
1763–1813
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François-Nicolas Vincent François-Nicolas Vincent
Cordelier and Hébertist who served as secretary-general of the War Ministry
Government and administration · French First Republic state institutions
1767–1794
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Napoleon Bonaparte Napoléon Bonaparte
A conqueror who rose from revolutionary general to emperor
Government and administration · Consulate and First Empire state institutions
1769–1821
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Antoine Richepanse Antoine Richepanse
French Revolutionary Wars general and commander of the Guadeloupe expedition
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1770–1802
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Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov Михаил Тариелович Лорис-Меликов
Armenian-born reformist minister called the "dictator of the heart"
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1824–1888
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Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Константин Петрович Победоносцев
The 'Grand Inquisitor' who made autocracy a creed
Ideology and propaganda · Russian Empire
1827–1907
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Ivan Logginovich Goremykin Иван Логгинович Горемыкин
The empire's last prime minister who believed doing nothing would save autocracy
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1839–1917
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Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn Николай Дмитриевич Голицын
The last premier of the empire, who begged to be excused
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1850–1925
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
The philosopher-president who organized the Czechoslovak Legion from exile and signed the Penza Agreement with the Bolsheviks
Political and party leadership
1850–1937
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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson
US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1856–1924
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Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirsky Пётр Дмитриевич Святополк-Мирский
The interior minister whose 'era of trust' promised reform, and ended in Bloody Sunday
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1857–1914
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Saad Zaghloul سعد زغلول
Founding leader of the Wafd whose deportation to Malta in 1919 set off the Egyptian Revolution
Political and party leadership · Independent activity
1857–1927
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Junaid Khan Jüneýit han
Yomut Turkmen chief who held real power in the Khanate of Khiva in 1918–1920 and fought Soviet rule for more than a decade
Military command
1857–1938
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Yuan Shikai 袁世凯
The Beiyang strongman who took over the 1911 revolution and tried to make himself emperor
Military command · Beiyang government and warlords
1859–1916
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Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko Михаил Владимирович Родзянко
The parliamentarian the Tsar called 'fat-bellied': last chairman of the Imperial Duma
Political and party leadership · Union of 17 October (Octobrists)
1859–1924
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George Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon
Conservative viceroy of India and foreign secretary who gave his name to the Curzon Line and led the Allies at Lausanne
Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions
1859–1925
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Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov Георгий Евгеньевич Львов
A scion of Rurik, the Empire's last liberal premier
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1861–1925
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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Head of the Finnish Senate who declared independence and sought German intervention in the civil war
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1861–1944
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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин
The premier who held the gallows in one hand and reform in the other
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1862–1911
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Marcel Sembat Marcel Sembat
French Socialist deputy who joined the Union sacrée government as Minister of Public Works in 1914
Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
1862–1922
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Sergey Yefimovich Kryzhanovsky Сергей Ефимович Крыжановский
The Empire's legal architect who tamed the Duma with the "shameless" electoral law of 1907
Law and justice · Russian Empire
1862–1935
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Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky Пётр Васильевич Вологодский
A lawyer-statesman who held White Siberia together through compromise
Government and administration · Russian White movement
1863–1925
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Nikolai Mikhaylovich Kishkin Николай Михайлович Кишкин
The Kadet minister named special plenipotentiary to save Petrograd on the day of the October Revolution
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1864–1930
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Vladimir Fyodorovich Dzhunkovsky Владимир Фёдорович Джунковский
The last gendarme chief who reformed the Okhrana and warned the Tsar about Rasputin
Security, intelligence and policing · Russian Empire
1865–1938
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Philipp Scheidemann Philipp Scheidemann
SPD politician who proclaimed the republic from a Reichstag window on 9 November 1918 and became Weimar’s first head of government
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1865–1939
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1865–1952
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Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov Александр Дмитриевич Протопопов
The last interior minister of the Russian Empire: elevated by Rasputin, destroyed by his own unraveling
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1866–1918
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Max von Baden Max von Baden
Last chancellor of the German Empire, who sought the armistice, announced the emperor’s abdication and handed power to Ebert
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1867–1929
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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
1867–1935
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Béla Somogyi Somogyi Béla
Editor of the Social Democratic Népszava who was murdered by an officer detachment in 1920 for exposing the White Terror
Ideology and propaganda
1868–1920
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Tserendorj Цэрэндорж
First prime minister of the Mongolian People's Republic, diplomat of the old regime
Government and administration · Mongolia
1868–1928
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Harold Harmsworth Harold Sidney Harmsworth
British press baron Lord Rothermere, who became a hero in Hungary by demanding revision of the Trianon borders in the Daily Mail
Ideology and propaganda
1868–1940
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Jaan Tõnisson Jaan Tõnisson
Estonian prime minister who concluded the Treaty of Tartu, publisher of Postimees
Political and party leadership
1868–1941?
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Kantaro Suzuki 鈴木貫太郎
The admiral-prime minister who steered Japan toward surrender
Military command · Japan state institutions
1868–1948
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Miklós Horthy Horthy Miklós
Regent who led the counter-revolutionary National Army and ruled Hungary until 1944
Government and administration · Hungary
1868–1957
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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
1869–1946
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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
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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
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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
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Ioannis Metaxas Ιωάννης Μεταξάς
The monarchist anti-communist who established the 4th of August dictatorship
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1871–1941
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Andrievs Niedra Andrievs Niedra
Pastor and writer who headed Latvia's pro-German government of 1919
Literature and arts
1871–1942
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Albert François Lebrun Albert Lebrun
Last president of the Third Republic, who signed the 1940 transfer of power
Legislature and state representation · France state institutions
1871–1950