People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Nikola Dimitrov Petkov Никола Димитров Петков Agrarian leader who opposed communist rule and was hanged after a show trial
- František Kriegel František Kriegel The only Prague Spring leader who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol
- Milovan Djilas Милован Ђилас Yugoslav dissident who attacked Western communist parties at the Cominform and later dissected the communist system in The New Class
- Tadeusz Mazowiecki Tadeusz Mazowiecki Catholic intellectual of Solidarity who became the Eastern Bloc's first non-communist prime minister
- Zdeněk Mlynář Zdeněk Mlynář A reform communist who sought to democratize socialism
- Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Elchibey Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Elçibəy The pan-Turkist dissident who became Azerbaijan's first democratically elected president
- Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdia ზვიად კონსტანტინეს ძე გამსახურდია The nationalist dissident who became Georgia's first democratically elected president
- Lagle Parek Lagle Parek The dissident architect who walked out of a Soviet prison camp and opened Estonia's political road to independence
- Roman Bartoszcze Roman Bartoszcze A peasant leader who carried Rural Solidarity into pluralist politics
- László Tőkés Tőkés László The Reformed pastor whose attempted eviction in Timișoara sparked the Romanian Revolution
- Etibar Salidar oglu Mammadov Etibar Səlidar oğlu Məmmədov Deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani Popular Front who warned Primakov there would be resistance