People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953
- Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia
- Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup
- Antonín Josef Novotný Antonín Novotný The Czechoslovak leader whose Stalinist orthodoxy was swept aside by the Prague Spring reform movement
- Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer
- Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end