People of the Revolution and the USSR

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People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 2 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 16 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 16 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 30 The last generation1985–1991 6

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

People of the Mao era1949–1976 5

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The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 14 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 12
Ideology and propaganda The age of the Internationals and empires 1820–1917 Clear all

Charles Delescluze

Charles Delescluze
International Workingmen's Association (First International) Liberalism and republicanism France France 1809–1871 ✕ Killed in action

Jacobin journalist of 1830 and 1848 who became the Commune’s war delegate and walked to his death on a barricade

On 25 May 1871, the final day of Bloody Week, Commune war delegate Delescluze walked unarmed to the barricade at the Place du Château-d’Eau and was shot dead amid the fighting.

Born in Dreux, he fought in the July Revolution of 1830, published republican papers after February 1848 and went into exile. Arrested under the Second Empire, he served time in the penal colony of Cayenne in Guiana, and in 1868 founded the newspaper Le Réveil. Elected to the National Assembly in February 1871, he resigned to join the Commune. A Jacobin “independent revolutionary”, he sat on the Commune's Committee of Public Safety and on 11 May became war delegate as a civilian. On 25 May, with defeat certain, he climbed onto the barricade at the Château-d’Eau and was shot dead.

Career timeline
  • 1830Took part in the July Revolution.
  • 1848Worked as a republican journalist after the February Revolution and later went into exile.
  • 1868Founded the newspaper Le Réveil.
  • 1871After election to the National Assembly, resigned and joined the Paris Commune, serving on its Committee of Public Safety and as its war delegate.

Gustave Hervé

Gustave Hervé
Independent activity Non-Bolshevik socialists France France 1871–1944

A French journalist who moved from antimilitarist socialism toward nationalist authoritarian politics.

“When war comes, do not fire on your brothers ... You will not march to defend the capitalists’ strongbox.”

A former history teacher, Hervé was dismissed from teaching in 1901 after publishing an antimilitarist article and became a socialist journalist. He took part in founding the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) in 1905 and was active in the General Confederation of Labour (CGT); through his paper La Guerre sociale, he advocated antimilitarism and insurrection in the event of war. At the outbreak of the First World War he turned to patriotism and support for the war, and in 1919 he helped launch the National Socialist Party. Between the wars he attacked parliamentary government and called for an authoritarian republic led by Philippe Pétain. He briefly supported German Nazism in the 1930s but condemned its persecution of Jews.

Career timeline
  • 1901Dismissed from teaching after an antimilitarist article.
  • 1905Took part in founding the SFIO and was active in the CGT.
  • 1907Founded and edited La Guerre sociale.
  • 1914Shifted to support for the war.
  • 1919Helped launch the National Socialist Party.
  • 1935Published C'est Pétain qu'il nous faut.