People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Keir Hardie Keir Hardie Former miner who founded the British Labour Party and opposed the First World War to the end, urging an anti-war general strike
- Arthur Henderson Arthur Henderson British Labour organizer and politician who led the international disarmament effort.
- Ramsay MacDonald Ramsay MacDonald Politician who gave up the Labour chairmanship in 1914 over war credits and later became Britain’s first Labour prime minister
- James Connolly James Connolly He raised the workers' flag and the republic's on a single staff
- Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin A pragmatic statesman who carried trade-union power into postwar diplomacy
- Clement Attlee Clement Attlee The laconic reformer who replaced Churchill mid-Potsdam and built Britain's postwar welfare state
- E. H. Carr E. H. Carr Author of the 14-volume History of Soviet Russia; diagnosed a "latent incompatibility" between NEP markets and planning
- Herbert Vere Evatt Herbert Vere Evatt Australia's Foreign Minister who led the small and medium powers' fight against the great-power veto at San Francisco
- George Orwell George Orwell The democratic socialist who came back wounded from the POUM militia and dissected the language of totalitarianism
- Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick MacFarquhar Harvard sinologist whose Origins of the Cultural Revolution trilogy and Mao’s Last Revolution dissected China’s elite politics