Activities and affiliations

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

Activity

All 1 Political and party leadership 1 Government and administration 1

State, movement or organization

All 2499 Soviet Union 1105 United States state institutions 69 Russian Empire 50 People’s Republic of China 40 Germany state institutions 35 France state institutions 34 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 34 Poland 30 People’s Republic of Kampuchea 1
All 178 affiliations by country

Afghanistan

Afghanistan 4 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 2

Albania

Albania 7 Party of Labour of Albania 1

Angola

Angola 7 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 2

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Austria

Austria state institutions 1

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan state institutions 1

Belarus

Belarus state institutions 1

Belgium

Belgium state institutions 2

Benin

Benin 3

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgaria 3

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutions 1

Cambodia

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

Chile

Chile state institutions 1

China

Communist Party of China 12 Kuomintang 5 Qing dynasty 1 Beiyang government and warlords 3 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 People’s Republic of China 40

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo 6

Cuba

Cuba 5 26th of July Movement 1

Czechia

Czechia state institutions 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia 29 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 8

DR Congo

DR Congo state institutions 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 2 East Germany 11

Estonia

Estonia state institutions 5 Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 2

Ethiopia

Ethiopia 4

Finland

Finland state institutions 13 Social Democratic Party of Finland 2 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1

France

France state institutions 34 French revolutionary movement 1 French First Republic state institutions 19 Consulate and First Empire state institutions 5 French monarchy 5 French Communist Party (PCF) 5 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 2 Girondins 3 Jacobin Club 1 The Mountain (Montagnards) 4 Cordeliers Club 4 Paris Commune (1789–1795) 3 Feuillants 4 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 2 Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) 3 Army of Condé 1 Action Française 1 Enragés 2 Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2

Georgia

Georgia state institutions 1

Germany

Germany state institutions 35 Nazi party and regime 12 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 10 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 7 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 1 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 2

Ghana

Ghana state institutions 1

Greece

Greece state institutions 6 Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1 Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) 1

Grenada

Grenada 1 New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

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

Hungary

Hungary 27 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

India

India state institutions 1 Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 2

International organizations

Comintern 25 United Nations 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 5 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 2

Italy

Italy state institutions 8 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 5 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1 National Fascist Party (PNF) 1

Japan

Japan state institutions 21 Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 2

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutions 1

Korea

Korean independence movement 1

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan state institutions 1

Laos

Laos 4 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 2

Latvia

Latvia state institutions 5 Popular Front of Latvia 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutions 6 Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania) 2

Madagascar

Madagascar 2

Moldova

Moldova state institutions 1

Mongolia

Mongolia 8 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Mozambique

Mozambique 2 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 2

Netherlands

Netherlands state institutions 1

Poland

Poland 30 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 2 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Polish People's Party (PSL) 2 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 2 Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romania 13 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 1

Russia

Russian Empire 50 Russian White movement 19 Russian Federation state institutions 9 Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 9 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 8 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 6 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 3 Narodnaya Volya 7 Russian Provisional Government 4 Russian Orthodox Church 5 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 5

Somalia

Somalia 3

South Africa

South Africa state institutions 1 South African Communist Party (SACP) 1 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

South Korea state institutions 2 Communist Party of Korea 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 34 ↳ Left Communists 5 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 5 ↳ Workers' Opposition 3 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 16 ↳ Union of Marxist-Leninists (Ryutin group) 1 Soviet Union 1105

Spain

Spain state institutions 1 Spanish Republic 8 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 3 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 1

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutions 1

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutions 1

Ukraine

Ukraine state institutions 6 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutions 22 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 4 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1

United States

United States state institutions 69 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 5 American Relief Administration (ARA) 1

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan state institutions 1

Vietnam

Vietnam 14 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 1

Yemen

Yemen state institutions 2 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 1 South Yemen 5

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia 14 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 6

People’s Republic of Kampuchea people 1

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Pen Sovann

ប៉ែន សុវាន
Political and party leadership People’s Republic of Kampuchea Cambodia Cambodia 1936–2016

First prime minister of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party

Removed and arrested on 2 December 1981, he formally held the posts of prime minister and party general secretary until 5 December, when Heng Samrin became general secretary and Chan Sy acting prime minister.

A Cambodian politician who broke with the Khmer Rouge and cooperated with Vietnam. One of the founding leaders of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation in 1978, he led the building of party and administrative structures as the People's Revolutionary Party's general secretary after the 1979 regime change. He became prime minister in June 1981 but was removed and arrested under Vietnamese pressure that December and was held until 1992.

Career timeline
  • 1950Joined the Khmer Issarak guerrilla struggle
  • 1978Founding leader of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation
  • 1979–1981General Secretary of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party
  • 1981.6.27–12.5Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Kampuchea
  • 1981–1992Detained in Vietnam
  • 2007Vice President of the Human Rights Party
  • 2013–2016National Assembly member for Kampong Speu (Cambodia National Rescue Party)