People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Giacinto Menotti Serrati Giacinto Menotti Serrati Italian Socialist leader who took his party into the Comintern but refused to expel the reformists, causing the Livorno split of 1921
- Ivanoe Bonomi Ivanoe Bonomi A reformist politician who organized compromises between fascism's fall and the monarchy
- Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini The dictator who turned fascism into state power
- Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga The left-communist theorist who rejected parliamentarism and analyzed the USSR as state-capitalist
- Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci The brain a prison was meant to stop: theorist of hegemony
- Palmiro Togliatti Palmiro Togliatti 'Il Migliore': the strategist who led Western Europe's largest communist party for forty years