People of the Revolution and the USSR
Economy, finance and planning
Marxism and communism
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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- Heinrich Rau Heinrich Rau Communist who chaired the German Economic Commission, the forerunner of the GDR government, and led East German economic policy
- Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953
- Zoltán Vas Vas Zoltán Rákosi-era planning chief who fell from grace and joined Imre Nagy
- Bruno Leuschner Bruno Leuschner East German planner who ran planning in the German Economic Commission and then chaired the State Planning Commission
- Boris Kidrič Boris Kidrič Yugoslav revolutionary who designed the economic theory of workers' self-management
- Nako Spiru Nako Spiru Albanian communist economic planner who led domestic criticism of Yugoslav economic control
- Gerhard Schürer Gerhard Schürer The GDR State Planning Commission chief who warned of bankruptcy but could not save the system
- Mieczysław Zygmunt Jagielski Mieczysław Jagielski A party official who contained crisis through concessions
- Che Guevara Ernesto "Che" Guevara The internationalist icon who traded a stethoscope for a rifle
- Carlos Alberto Dilolwa Carlos Alberto da Rocha Oliveira Dilolwa Designer of Angolan economic planning and MPLA theorist