People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Emmanuel Sieyès Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Clergyman and political theorist of Third Estate sovereignty
- Alexandre de Lameth Alexandre de Lameth Politician who moved from the revolutionary triumvirate to the Feuillants
- Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification
- Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds
- Oszkár Jászi Jászi Oszkár Social scientist who led the Radical Party and served as minister of nationalities in the Károlyi government
- Paul Reynaud Paul Reynaud A republican statesman who urged resistance in the face of defeat
- Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war
- Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña The last president of the Republic who embodied the republican cause but crossed into France and resigned when Catalonia fell
- Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta
- Édouard Daladier Édouard Daladier The Radicals' 'Bull of Vaucluse', who helped build the Popular Front and dismantled it with his own hands
- Georgios Papandreou Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου A liberal statesman at the threshold of liberation and civil war
- Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty
- 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
- Vincent Henri Badie Vincent Badie A Radical Socialist who defended the Republic
- 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
- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Борис Николаевич Ельцин The man who climbed onto the tank
- Nicéphore Soglo Nicéphore Soglo Benin’s transitional government and pluralism
- Václav Klaus Václav Klaus The market reformer who rejected a third way