People of the Revolution and the USSR
Social movements and organizing
Citizenship: France
The age of the Internationals and empires 1820–1917
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- Étienne Cabet Étienne Cabet Founder of the Icarian movement who coined the term 'communism'
- Louis Auguste Blanqui Louis Blanqui Insurrectionary strategist who spent 37 years in prison; Blanquism paved the road to Leninism
- Nathalie Le Mel Nathalie Le Mel French bookbinder and activist in the Women's Union of the Paris Commune
- Louise Michel Louise Michel Montmartre teacher who fought on the Commune’s barricades, was deported to New Caledonia and became the anarchist “Red Virgin”
- Eugène Varlin Eugène Varlin Bookbinder who led the Paris International, ran the Commune’s finances and was shot on the last day of Bloody Week