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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Ferdinand Lassalle Ferdinand Lassalle
Founder of the ADAV, Germany's first workers' party
Scholarship and theory
1825–1864
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Wilhelm Liebknecht Wilhelm Liebknecht
Co-founder of the Eisenach party and drafter of the Gotha Programme
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1826–1900
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August Bebel August Bebel
Co-founder of the SPD who led the German workers' movement for over 40 years, the 'shadow emperor' of the working class
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1840–1913
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Paul Lafargue Paul Lafargue
Marx's son-in-law, author of The Right to Be Lazy, first socialist deputy in the French parliament
Political and party leadership · French Workers' Party (POF)
1842–1911
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Jules Guesde Jules Guesde
Veteran founder of French Marxist socialism who entered the Union sacrée government in 1914
Political and party leadership · France state institutions
1845–1922
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Pavel Borisovich Axelrod Павел Борисович Аксельрод
Theorist of the mass workers' party: the argument that lost to Lenin's vanguard
Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1850–1928
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Eduard Bernstein Eduard Bernstein
Founder of Marxist revisionism and evolutionary socialism, author of The Preconditions of Socialism
Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1850–1932
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Victor Adler Victor Adler
Founder and leader of Austrian Social Democracy who could not stop the war in 1914 and backed it
Political and party leadership
1852–1918
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Karl Johann Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky
Chief theoretician of orthodox Marxism in the Second International, founding editor of Die Neue Zeit, editor of Marx's Capital Vol. IV
Scholarship and theory · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD)
1854–1938
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Eugene V. Debs Eugene V. Debs
Five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and pioneer of industrial railroad unionism
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Party of America
1855–1926
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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
Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom)
1856–1915
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Jean Jaurès Jean Jaurès
French socialist leader who united the left, founded L'Humanité, and was assassinated fighting to prevent the Great War
Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
1859–1914
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Marcel Sembat Marcel Sembat
French Socialist deputy who joined the Union sacrée government as Minister of Public Works in 1914
Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
1862–1922
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Émile Vandervelde Émile Vandervelde
Chairman of the International Socialist Bureau who led the Second International and joined Belgium’s wartime government in 1914
Political and party leadership · Belgium state institutions
1866–1938
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Alexander Lvovich Parvus Александр Львович Парвус
Co-author of permanent revolution who arranged Lenin's sealed train: the 'merchant of revolution'
Scholarship and theory · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1867–1924
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James Connolly James Connolly
He raised the workers' flag and the republic's on a single staff
Social movements and organizing · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
1868–1916
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Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов
One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1869–1934
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Gustave Hervé Gustave Hervé
A French journalist who moved from antimilitarist socialism toward nationalist authoritarian politics.
Ideology and propaganda · Independent activity
1871–1944
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Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан
Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1871–1947
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Camille Huysmans Camille Huysmans
Secretary of the Second International from 1905 to 1922 who kept its Bureau alive in the war and later became Belgian prime minister
Diplomacy and international organization
1871–1968
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Julius Osipovich Martov Юлий Осипович Мартов
Lenin’s oldest friend and most principled adversary
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1873–1923