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Julian Józefowicz Marchlewski Julian Marchlewski A Pole who passed through the German and Russian revolutions and tried to bring revolution home Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1866–1925
Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg “Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently” Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1871–1919
Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская Polish Social Democrat who forged an independent revolutionary path from the SDKPiL underground to the Comintern Social movements and organizing · Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1882–1968
Stanislav Vikentyevich Kosior Станислав Викентьевич Косиор The Ukrainian party boss who denied the famine, felled by Stalin's bullet Social movements and organizing · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1889–1939
Larisa Mikhailovna Reisner Лариса Михайловна Рейснер The revolution's Valkyrie. Poet, scout, and the first woman commissar of the Naval General Staff Literature and arts · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1895–1926
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
Jakub Berman Jakub Berman An architect of Stalinist power in Poland Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1901–1984
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