People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Stanislav Čeček Stanislav Čeček Commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
- Radola Gajda Radola Gajda A legion commander who carried battlefield success into White politics
- Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover
- Josef Pavel Josef Pavel Prague Spring interior minister whose security reforms were undermined by KGB subversion and internal betrayal
- Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights