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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background(set)
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Eugene V. Debs Eugene V. Debs
Five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and pioneer of industrial railroad unionism
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Party of America
1855–1926
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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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Hugh Lincoln Cooper Hugh Lincoln Cooper
The American colonel who brought General Electric turbines and dam-building expertise to the Soviet Union's showcase construction site
Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions
1865–1937
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William S. Graves William Sidney Graves
General who led the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia in 1918–1920 and kept it strictly neutral in the Russian Civil War
Military command · United States state institutions
1865–1940
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Vernon Kellogg Vernon Lyman Kellogg
An entomologist who carried scientific expertise into international relief
Science and technology
1867–1937
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W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois
"Capitalism cannot reform itself": father of the modern Negro liberation movement who joined the Communist Party at 93
Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1868–1963
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Cordell Hull Cordell Hull
An American diplomat who pressed for free trade and international institutions
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1871–1955
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Herbert C. Hoover Herbert Hoover
Master of famine relief and the 31st president, broken by the Great Depression
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1874–1964
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William D. Leahy William D. Leahy
The five-star chief of staff who warned Roosevelt the Yalta Poland deal was 'so elastic' it could stretch from Yalta to Washington
Military command · United States state institutions
1875–1959
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William N. Haskell William N. Haskell
An international relief commander amid famine
Military command · United States state institutions
1878–1952
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Walter Lyman Brown Walter Lyman Brown
The relief administrator who turned aid into diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · American Relief Administration (ARA)
1880–1955
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George C. Catlett Marshall George C. Marshall
The only American to head the Army, the State Department, and the Pentagon, organizer of Allied victory and architect of the Marshall Plan
Military command · United States state institutions
1880–1959
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Henry Beeuwkes Henry Beeuwkes
The physician who organized medical relief amid famine
Science and technology
1880–1959
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Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur
UN commander who conceived the Inchon landing and overruled the unanimous opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Military command · United States state institutions
1880–1964
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William L. Lockhart Clayton William L. Clayton
Free-trade champion who built the world's largest cotton firm, then set the Marshall Plan in motion with his memo on Europe's collapse
Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions
1880–1966
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William Z. Zebulon Foster William Zebulon Foster
From leading the Great Steel Strike of 1919 to longest-serving leader of American communism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1881–1961
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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
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1882–1945
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James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1882–1972
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Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman
The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1884–1972
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George S. Patton George Smith Patton Jr.
An aggressive commander of mobile warfare and military deception
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1945
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Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz
The admiral who reorganized Pacific power through intelligence and mobility
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1966
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Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong
The American journalist who chronicled the Russian and Chinese revolutions from the inside, founder of Moscow News
Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1885–1970
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Frank Jack Fletcher Frank Jack Fletcher
An operational commander of the carrier age
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1973
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Raymond A. Spruance Raymond Ames Spruance
A cool-headed carrier commander at Midway
Military command · United States state institutions
1886–1969
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John Reed John Reed
From eyewitness of the Bolshevik Revolution to founder of the Communist Labor Party of America: an American buried at the Kremlin Wall
Literature and arts · Independent activity
1887–1920
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Alexander Vandegrift Alexander Vandegrift
The general who defended Guadalcanal and the Marine Corps
Military command · United States state institutions
1887–1973
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John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles
An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1888–1959
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Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins
A New Deal administrator turned wartime diplomatic envoy
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1890–1946
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John P. Lucas John Porter Lucas
The cautious commander of Anzio
Military command · United States state institutions
1890–1949
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Elizabeth Flynn
"East Side Joan of Arc": from the IWW's Rebel Girl to first woman chair of the CPUSA
Social movements and organizing · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
1890–1964
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower
The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex
Military command · United States state institutions
1890–1969
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James P. Cannon James P. Cannon
The labor organizer who read Trotsky's critique in Moscow and founded the American Trotskyist movement
Political and party leadership · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1890–1974
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Earl Russell Browder Earl Russell Browder
The CPUSA leader who declared Communism was 20th-century Americanism, and then dissolved his own party
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1891–1973
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Sumner Welles Sumner Welles
US Under Secretary of State whose Welles Declaration of July 1940 refused to recognise the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1892–1961
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Edward Mallory Almond Edward Mallory Almond
A U.S. general whose offensive command was bound to racial prejudice
Military command · United States state institutions
1892–1979
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Allen Dulles Allen Dulles
The American intelligence official who institutionalized covert war
Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions
1893–1969
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Oliver P. Smith Oliver Prince Smith
A Marine commander whose caution helped save a surrounded division
Military command · United States state institutions
1893–1977
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Omar Nelson Bradley Omar Nelson Bradley
The U.S. Army commander who led the Normandy campaign
Military command · United States state institutions
1893–1981
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Robert Daniel Murphy Robert Daniel Murphy
The diplomat who read the danger in Berlin first
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1894–1978
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William K. Harrison Jr. William K. Harrison Jr.
The US Army lieutenant general who signed the Korean Armistice as UNC delegate after 158 truce meetings
Military command · United States state institutions
1895–1987
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John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy
A pragmatic architect of the postwar U.S. international order
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1895–1989
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Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark
An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost
Military command · United States state institutions
1896–1984
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Lucius D. Clay Lucius D. Clay
The US military governor who answered the blockade of West Berlin with a 324-day airlift
Military command · United States state institutions
1897–1978
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Paul Leroy Robeson Paul Leroy Robeson
The artist who turned 'Ol' Man River' into a hymn of struggle
Literature and arts
1898–1976
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Harry Haywood Harry Haywood
Architect of the Comintern Black Belt thesis: Southern Blacks are an oppressed nation with the right to self-determination
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1898–1985
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Edward Stettinius Edward Stettinius
A corporate executive turned architect of the postwar international order
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1900–1949
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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
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1900–1965
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Maxwell Davenport Taylor Maxwell Taylor
A military strategist of the nuclear age
Military command · United States state institutions
1901–1987
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John Alexander McCone John Alexander McCone
CIA director who alone warned that Soviet missiles were coming to Cuba
Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions
1902–1991
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Llewellyn E. Thompson Llewellyn Thompson
The US Ambassador to Moscow who knew Khrushchev personally and, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, told Kennedy to ignore the second letter
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1904–1972