People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953
- Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform
- George Padmore George Padmore From Comintern Negro Bureau chief to architect of Pan-African independence, the revolutionary journalist who broke with empire
- Roman Brandstaetter Roman Brandstaetter A writer who joined Jewish and Catholic memory and organized public remembrance
- Annamarie Doherr Annamarie Doherr The West German journalist whose question drew Ulbricht's 'No one intends to build a wall'
- Han Chae-dok 韓載德 Journalist who headed propaganda for the Pyongnam CPKI
- Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire Co-founder of Négritude, pioneering critic of colonialism
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Jan Nowak-Jeziorański A Polish courier who connected resistance, exile, and radio
- Miklós Gimes Gimes Miklós Reform communist journalist executed alongside Imre Nagy
- Tố Hữu Tố Hữu Revolutionary poet laureate who, as the Party's ideology chief, policed its writers
- Balázs Nagy Nagy Balázs The exile historian of workers’ councils
- Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho Angolan nationalist and writer 'Uanhenga Xitu', a nursing auxiliary turned minister
- Ruth First Ruth First The investigative journalist who exposed apartheid, the communist revolutionary who endured 117 days of solitary confinement
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer Pramoedya Ananta Toer The Buru Island novelist who composed a tetralogy by mouth, eight-time Nobel nominee
- Ludvík Vaculík Ludvík Vaculík The Czech writer who declared 'not one human question has been solved in twenty years' and authored the 'Two Thousand Words' manifesto
- Peter Fryer Peter Fryer A communist journalist who chose the scene over the party line
- Milan Kundera Milan Kundera The Czech novelist who insisted the Prague Spring was a universal attempt to reconcile socialism with freedom
- Václav Havel Václav Havel Czech playwright-turned-president whose absurdist theater critiqued the regime and whose dissident leadership ended communist rule