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Sen Katayama 片山潜 Japanese communist founder who shook Plekhanov's hand and shaped Comintern East Asia strategy Political and party leadership · Comintern 1859–1933
Fernand Loriot Fernand Loriot French socialist and teachers’ union activist who led the Committee for the Third International Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1870–1932
Vasil Petrov Kolarov Васил Петров Коларов Co-founder of Bulgarian communism, from the Comintern to head of state Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1877–1950
Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1878–1952
Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor Political and party leadership · Comintern 1878–1965
Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1880–1966
Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1881–1964
Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1938
Georgi Mihaylov Dimitrov Георги Михайлов Димитров From Leipzig defendant to Comintern General Secretary Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1882–1949
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1936
Fritz Platten Fritz Platten Swiss communist who organised Lenin’s sealed-train journey in 1917 and sat on the Comintern’s founding presidium Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1883–1942
Henk Sneevliet Henk Sneevliet The Dutch revolutionary who planted communist seeds in Indonesia and China, then fought both Stalinism and Nazism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1883–1942
Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky Дмитрий Захарович Мануильский ECCI secretary who carried out the Stalinist purges (1928–1943) Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1883–1959
Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1884–1951
Manabendra Nath Roy মানবেন্দ্র নাথ রায় The Indian Marxist who debated Lenin on colonial revolution Political and party leadership · Comintern 1887–1954
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Николай Иванович Бухарин The “favourite of the whole party,” killed in its name Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1888–1938
Willi Münzenberg Willi Münzenberg The 'Red Millionaire' who exposed Nazi terror through publishing, the Comintern's greatest propagandist, who broke with Stalin Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1889–1940
Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin Вильгельм Георгиевич Кнорин Architect of Comintern propaganda and party history compiler Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1890–1938
Andrei Klyushnikov Андрей Клюшников Comintern agent known as Nenin who built revolutionary committees in southern Bessarabia and led the Tatarbunary Uprising Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1892–1924
Grigory Naumovich Voitinsky Григорий Наумович Войтинский The Comintern's first envoy who midwifed the Chinese Communist Party Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1893–1953
Wilhelm Zaisser Wilhelm Zaisser First East German Minister for State Security, purged in 1953 after trying to replace Ulbricht Security, intelligence and policing · East Germany 1893–1958
Kang Sheng 康生 Mao’s inquisitor who ran party security and intelligence from the Yan’an “rescue” campaign to the Cultural Revolution Security, intelligence and policing · People’s Republic of China 1898–1975
Otto Braun Otto Braun “Li De”, the only Westerner on the Long March and the Comintern military adviser blamed at Zunyi Military command · Comintern 1900–1974
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif Павел Александрович Миф Comintern China specialist who cultivated the 28 Bolsheviks Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1901–1938
Najati Sidqi نجاتي صدقي Palestinian activist linking anti-colonialism and anti-fascism Ideology and propaganda · Comintern 1905–1979