People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 1 Government and administration 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 185 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Communist Party of China 36 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 20 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 20 Soviet Unionstate 19 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 17 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 16 Mozambiquestate 1

All 148 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistanstate 2 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albaniastate 1 Party of Labour of Albania 3

Angola

Angolastate 2 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 6

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Austria

Austria state institutionsstate 1

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan state institutionsstate 1

Belgium

Belgium state institutionsstate 1

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgariastate 3 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 6

Cambodia

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

Chile

Communist Party of Chile 1

China

Communist Party of China 36 Kuomintang 6 Beiyang government and warlords 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 10

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congostate 2 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 2

Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 4

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 7 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 13 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 7 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 4 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 3

DR Congo

Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 16 East Germanystate 3

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 1 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 4 Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 4 National Progressive Party (Finland) 1

France

France state institutionsstate 2 French revolutionary movement 1 French Communist Party (PCF) 13 French Workers' Party (POF) 2 Girondins 3 Jacobin Club 1 The Mountain (Montagnards) 4 Cordeliers Club 2 Feuillants 3 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 9 Action Française 1 Enragés 1 Jacobin Club 6

Georgia

Georgia state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 3 Nazi party and regime 4 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 20 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 20 Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO) 2 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 8

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Grenada

New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

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

Hungary

Hungarystate 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 7 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 11 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 4 Unity Party (Hungary) 2 Party of National Unity / Party of Hungarian Life (NEP/MÉP) 3 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 3

India

Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 3

International organizations

Comintern 4

Italy

Italy state institutionsstate 1 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 6 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 6 National Fascist Party (PNF) 3

Japan

Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 3

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan state institutionsstate 1

Laos

Laosstate 1 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Latvia

Popular Front of Latvia 1

Lithuania

Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania) 2

Mongolia

Mongoliastate 2 Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 6

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Polandstate 3 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 17 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 5 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 8 Polish People's Party (PSL) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 5 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 3 Freedom Union (Poland) 2 Democratic Union (Poland) 1

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 4 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 5

Russia

Russian Empirestate 2 Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 16 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 7 Mensheviks (RSDLP) 8 Union of 17 October (Octobrists) 2 Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 7 Narodnaya Volya 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 42 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) 4 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 1

South Africa

South Africa state institutionsstate 1 South African Communist Party (SACP) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of South Korea 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 185 ↳ Left Communists 1 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 2 ↳ Workers' Opposition 1 ↳ Workers' Group 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1 Soviet Unionstate 19

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 4 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 4

Turkey

Turkey state institutionsstate 2

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukrainestate 2

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 2 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 4 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 4

United States

United States state institutionsstate 3 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 7 Democratic Party (United States) 3 Republican Party (United States) 1 Socialist Party of America 3

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 2 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 6

Yemen

Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 5 South Yemenstate 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 4 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 6
Position
Any National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1 Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Mozambique 1
Background
Any Mozambique 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Political and party leadership Mozambique (state) Clear all

Samora Moisés Machel

Samora Moisés Machel
Mozambique Communism Mozambique Mozambique 1933–1986 ✕ Killed in crash

The Marxist revolutionary who overthrew Portuguese colonial rule and led Mozambique to independence

“The liberation of Africa is the liberation of the continent, or it is nothing.”

Mozambique's independence leader and first president. As FRELIMO chairman, he waged armed struggle to end Portuguese colonial rule and built a socialist state. A crucial ally of liberation movements against Rhodesia and South African apartheid.

Career timeline
  • 1963Exiled to Tanzania, joins FRELIMO; guerrilla training in Algeria
  • 1966FRELIMO Secretary for Defense
  • 1968Commander-in-chief of the Mozambican liberation army
  • 1970Becomes FRELIMO President; adopts Marxism-Leninism as party ideology
  • 1974Negotiates independence with Portugal's new government — Lusaka Accord
  • 1975–1986First President of the People's Republic of Mozambique
  • 1984Signs the Nkomati non-aggression pact with South Africa
  • 1986.10Killed in plane crash at Mbuzini, South Africa, returning from Zambia