Activities and affiliations

What people did, and whom they served in that activity.

Activity

All 1 Political and party leadership 1

State, movement or organization

All 384 Soviet Union 70 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 15 Czechoslovakia 13 Poland 11 People’s Republic of China 10 Communist Party of China 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 9 Romania 6 Communist Party of Korea 1
All 112 affiliations by country

Afghanistan

Afghanistan 3 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 2

Albania

Albania 2 Party of Labour of Albania 1

Angola

Angola 2 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 1

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan state institutions 1

Belgium

Belgium state institutions 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgaria 3

Cambodia

Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 1 Democratic Kampuchea 2 People’s Republic of Kampuchea 1

China

Communist Party of China 9 Kuomintang 3 Beiyang government and warlords 1 People’s Republic of China 10

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo 2

Cuba

Cuba 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia 13 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

New People's Party of Korea 1 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 4

DR Congo

Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 2 East Germany 5

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopia 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1

France

France state institutions 1 French revolutionary movement 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 5 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 Girondins 3 Jacobin Club 1 The Mountain (Montagnards) 4 Cordeliers Club 2 Feuillants 3 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 2 Action Française 1 Enragés 1

Germany

Nazi party and regime 3 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 9 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 6 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 1 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 2

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Grenada

New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

Hungary

Hungary 5 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3

India

Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 2

International organizations

Comintern 3

Italy

Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 5 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1 National Fascist Party (PNF) 1

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 2

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutions 1

Laos

Laos 1 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 2

Latvia

Popular Front of Latvia 1

Lithuania

Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania) 2

Mongolia

Mongolia 5 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Mozambique

Mozambique 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 2

Poland

Poland 11 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 2 Polish People's Party (PSL) 2 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romania 6 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 1

Russia

Russian Empire 2 Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 6 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 6 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 3 Narodnaya Volya 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 15 ↳ Left Communists 1 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 ↳ Workers' Opposition 1 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1 Soviet Union 70

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 3 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 1 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 4 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 2 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1

United States

United States state institutions 2 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 4

Vietnam

Vietnam 3

Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 1 South Yemen 4

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia 4 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 4

Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Korea people 1

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Pak Hon-yong

박헌영
Political and party leadership Communist Party of Korea North Korea North Korea 1900–1955 ✕ Executed

Architect of the Korean Communist Party's rebirth; leader of the Workers' Party of South Korea

At his 1927 trial in Sinuiju, he ate his own excrement in court to feign insanity, securing medical release before escaping to Moscow.

The foremost leader of Korea's communist movement from the colonial era through liberation. He rebuilt the Communist Party of Korea and led the Workers' Party of South Korea, but after defecting north he was outmaneuvered by Kim Il-sung and executed as the scapegoat for the Korean War's defeat.

Career timeline
  • 1921Joined Korean Communist Party (Irkutsk faction) in Shanghai
  • 1922Secretary of Korean Communist Youth League; attended Far East Peoples' Congress in Moscow
  • 1925Co-founded Communist Party of Korea; General Secretary of Korean Komsomol
  • 1928–1930Studied at International Lenin School, Moscow; joined CPSU(B)
  • 1931–1940Comintern Eastern Secretariat cadre; led underground organizing in Shanghai and Korea
  • 1945Rebuilt Communist Party of Korea; became its leader and General Secretary
  • 1946–1949Founded Workers' Party of South Korea; Vice Chairman (de facto leader)
  • 1948–1953Deputy Premier and first Foreign Minister of the DPRK