People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Robert Grimm Robert Grimm
Swiss socialist who organised the Zimmerwald anti-war conference of 1915 and chaired the International Socialist Commission
Social movements and organizing
1881–1958
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Fritz Platten Fritz Platten
Swiss communist who organised Lenin’s sealed-train journey in 1917 and sat on the Comintern’s founding presidium
Social movements and organizing · Independent activity
1883–1942
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Carl Lutz Carl Lutz
Swiss vice-consul in Budapest who saved tens of thousands of Jews with protective letters and safe houses
Diplomacy and international organization · Switzerland state institutions
1895–1975
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Jeronim Perović Jeronim Perović
The Swiss historian whose archival research overturned the received Yugoslav narrative of the Tito-Stalin split
Scholarship and theory
1971–