People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1061 Soviet Unionstate 992 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 165 Hungarystate 74 United States state institutionsstate 72 Russian Empirestate 59 Communist Party of China 57 Germany state institutionsstate 52 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

All 215 affiliations

Afghanistan

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

Albania

Albaniastate 6 Party of Labour of Albania 4

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Angola

Angolastate 7 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 10

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Austria

Austria state institutionsstate 7

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan state institutionsstate 2

Belarus

Belarus state institutionsstate 5 Belarusian Socialist Hramada 3

Belgium

Belgium state institutionsstate 2

Benin

Beninstate 3

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 2

Bulgaria

Bulgariastate 3 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 6

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutionsstate 1

Cambodia

Cambodia state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 2 Democratic Kampucheastate 2 People’s Republic of Kampucheastate 1

Chile

Chile state institutionsstate 1 Communist Party of Chile 1

China

Communist Party of China 57 Kuomintang 11 Qing dynastystate 1 Beiyang government and warlords 3 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 People’s Republic of Chinastate 41

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congostate 6 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 3

Cuba

Cubastate 5 Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 5 26th of July Movement 1

Czechia

Czechia state institutionsstate 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 25 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 25 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 4

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 9 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 6 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 7

DR Congo

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

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 22 East Germanystate 20

Estonia

Estonia state institutionsstate 7 Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 2

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 4 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Finland state institutionsstate 15 Social Democratic Party of Finland 6 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 4 National Progressive Party (Finland) 5

France

France state institutionsstate 39 French revolutionary movement 1 French First Republic state institutionsstate 19 Consulate and First Empire state institutionsstate 5 French monarchystate 5 French Communist Party (PCF) 17 French Workers' Party (POF) 3 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) 14 Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) 3 Army of Condé 1 Action Française 1 Enragés 2 Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2 Jacobin Club 12

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 3

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 52 Nazi party and regime 26 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 36 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 36 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 2 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 23

Ghana

Ghana state institutionsstate 1

Greece

Greece state institutionsstate 6 Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 2 Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) 1

Grenada

Grenadastate 1 New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

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

Hungary

Hungarystate 74 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 26 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 12 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 14 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 9 Unity Party (Hungary) 6 Party of National Unity / Party of Hungarian Life (NEP/MÉP) 7 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 5

India

India state institutionsstate 1 Indian National Congress 2

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 3

International organizations

Comintern 29 United Nations 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 5 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 2

Israel

Israel state institutionsstate 1

Italy

Italy state institutionsstate 10 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 6 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 7 National Fascist Party (PNF) 3

Japan

Japan state institutionsstate 21 Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 3

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutionsstate 1

Korea

Korean independence movement 1

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan state institutionsstate 1

Laos

Laosstate 4 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 9 Popular Front of Latvia 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 10 Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania) 2

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 2

Moldova

Moldova state institutionsstate 1

Mongolia

Mongoliastate 5 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 7

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 2 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Netherlands

Netherlands state institutionsstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 23 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 20 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 11 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 12 Polish People's Party (PSL) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 8 Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 7 Freedom Union (Poland) 5 Democratic Union (Poland) 4

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 15 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 8

Russia

Russian Empirestate 59 Russian White movement 20 Russian Federation state institutionsstate 9 Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 42 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 18 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 12 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 4 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 11 Narodnaya Volya 7 Russian Provisional Governmentstate 5 Russian Orthodox Church 5 General Jewish Labour Bund 5 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 165 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 11 United Russia 7 Our Home – Russia 3

Somalia

Somaliastate 3

South Africa

South Africa state institutionsstate 2 South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

South Korea state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party of Korea 3 Workers' Party of South Korea 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1061 ↳ Left Communists 5 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 5 ↳ Workers' Opposition 3 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 17 ↳ Union of Marxist-Leninists (Ryutin group) 1 Soviet Unionstate 992

Spain

Spain state institutionsstate 2 Spanish Republicstate 10 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 6 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 4

Switzerland

Switzerland state institutionsstate 1

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutionsstate 1

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 6

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutionsstate 1

Ukraine

Ukraine state institutionsstate 1 Ukrainian People's Republicstate 8 Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)state 3 ↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 7 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 2

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 28 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 8 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 9 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 5

United States

United States state institutionsstate 72 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 3 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 12 American Relief Administration (ARA) 1 Democratic Party (United States) 20 Republican Party (United States) 17 Socialist Party of America 7

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan state institutionsstate 1

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 13 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 11

Yemen

Yemen state institutionsstate 2 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 6 South Yemenstate 4

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 14 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 11
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Ethiopia 1
Background
Any Ethiopia 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Workers' Party of Ethiopia
GlossaryWorkers' Party of Ethiopia

Mengistu Haile Mariam

መንግሥቱ ኃይለ ማርያም
Ethiopia Communism 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