Activities and affiliations

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

Activity

All 4 Political and party leadership 1 Government and administration 2 Monarchs and royalty 1 Military command 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 Ethiopia 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 · Ethiopia people 1

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Mengistu Haile Mariam

መንግሥቱ ኃይለ ማርያም
Political and party leadership Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia 1937–

Consolidation of Derg rule

At a Derg meeting he vowed of the aristocrats who called dark-skinned, kinky-haired people slave "Barias": "I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!"

A leader of Ethiopia’s Derg, the military committee emerging from the 1974 revolution. He consolidated predominance after the 1977 power struggle and led military and party-state institutions. Land reform and state-led development proceeded amid political repression and prolonged war.

Career timeline
  • 1957Graduated Holetta Military Academy, commissioned second lieutenant
  • 1974Derg member (Third Division representative)
  • 1974–1977Deputy chairman of the Derg
  • 1977–1987Chairman of the Derg, head of the military regime
  • 1984–1991General Secretary, Workers' Party of Ethiopia
  • 1987–1991President, People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
  • 1991Fled into exile in Zimbabwe