People
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Léo Lagrange Léo Lagrange
The undersecretary for leisure and sport who designed the workers' first holidays
Government and administration · France state institutions
1900–1940
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Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer
Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1901–1963
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George Orwell George Orwell
The democratic socialist who came back wounded from the POUM militia and dissected the language of totalitarianism
Literature and arts
1903–1950
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Salvador Guillermo Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende
First elected Marxist head of state; pursued the peaceful 'Chilean road to socialism' (copper, land, cybernetics) until the 1973 coup
Government and administration · Chile state institutions
1908–1973
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Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt
A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1913–1992
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Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick MacFarquhar
Harvard sinologist whose Origins of the Cultural Revolution trilogy and Mao’s Last Revolution dissected China’s elite politics
Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom)
1930–2019
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Samuel Farber Samuel Farber
American sociologist who reopened the debate on the Cuban Revolution
Scholarship and theory
1939–
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Micheline Ravololonarisoa Micheline Ravololonarisoa
Malagasy feminist socialist leader of the 1972 student movement
Social movements and organizing
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Pyotr Tokmakov Пётр Токмаков
Peasant-born officer who commanded the United Partisan Army of Tambov and chaired the Union of Working Peasantry
Military command · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
?–1921