People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 174 Government and administration 102 Legislature and state representation 12 Monarchs and royalty 3 Military command 48 Security, intelligence and policing 26 Diplomacy and international organization 37 Economy, finance and planning 17 Industry and production 3 Agriculture and land policy 3 Ideology and propaganda 12 Social movements and organizing 52 Scholarship and theory 11 Education 2 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 18 Religion 6 Law and justice 8
Affiliation

Most people

Any Cambodia state institutionsstate 1 Ethiopiastate 1 Vietnamstate 1

All 3 affiliations

Cambodia

Cambodia state institutionsstate 1

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 1

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 1
Position
Any Counter-revolutionary forces 2 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1
Citizenship
Any Cambodia 1 Ethiopia 1 Vietnam 1
Background
Any Cambodia 1 Ethiopia 1 Vietnam 1
Era(set)
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 4

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 1

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 5

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 9 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 3
Monarchs and royalty The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재 Clear all

Haile Selassie I

ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ
Ethiopia Counter-revolutionary forces Ethiopia Ethiopia 1892–1975 ✕ Murdered by the Derg after deposition

Moderniser and anti-fascist icon who never touched the land order that finally undid his dynasty

In 1936 he told the League of Nations, 'God and history will remember your judgment.'

Descended from the Solomonic dynasty, Haile Selassie I was the 20th-century emperor who modernised Ethiopia and, with his 1936 speech to the League of Nations, became a global symbol of anti-fascism. From his regency he drove reform through the 1931 constitution and the abolition of slavery, and after exile under Italian occupation he returned with British forces in 1941 to restore the throne. But his modernisation, which left the northern rist and gult tenures and the southern land-grant system intact through compromise with the nobility and clergy, never freed the peasantry from tenancy, and the 1972 Wollo famine turned opinion against him. Deposed by the Derg in September 1974, he was strangled on the junta's orders the following August, months after the proclamation that nationalised the land system his reign had preserved.

Career timeline
  • 1916Regent Plenipotentiary and heir apparent, de facto ruler
  • 1917Crowned Le'ul-Ras (duke)
  • 1928Crowned Negus (king)
  • 1930Crowned Emperor (Negusa Nagast)
  • 1936–1941Exiled in Britain during the Italian occupation
  • 1941Returned and restored the imperial throne
  • 1963Presided over the OAU's founding, first chairman
  • 1974Deposed by the Derg in September

Bảo Đại

Bảo Đại
Vietnam Counter-revolutionary forces Vietnam Vietnam 1913–1997 → Died in exile

Last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, who abdicated in 1945 and returned as head of the French-backed State of Vietnam

Bảo Đại abdicated in August 1945, returned as head of the State of Vietnam in 1949, and was ousted in a 1955 referendum organized by Ngô Đình Diệm’s government.

The thirteenth and last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, he came to the throne in 1926 as nominal ruler of the French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin. When Japan overthrew the French in March 1945 he became emperor of the Japanese-sponsored Empire of Vietnam; after the August Revolution of 1945 he abdicated in Huế on the 30th and became “supreme advisor” to Ho Chi Minh’s government. Soon in exile, he returned under the Élysée Accords of 1949 as Chief of State of the French-backed State of Vietnam, criticised as too close to France and too often abroad. Ousted by Ngô Đình Diệm in a 1955 referendum, he died in Paris in 1997.

Career timeline
  • 1926Acceded as Nguyễn emperor, the nominal ruler of the Annam and Tonkin protectorates in French Indochina.
  • 1945Remained emperor when Japan displaced the Vichy French administration and proclaimed the Empire of Vietnam; abdicated in August after Japan's surrender.
  • 1945–1946Served as supreme advisor to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after abdicating.
  • 1949–1955Served as chief of state of the French-backed State of Vietnam; left office after the 1955 referendum led by Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.

Norodom Sihanouk

នរោត្តម សីហនុ
Cambodia state institutions National liberation and anti-colonial movements Cambodia Cambodia 1922–2012 ○ Died in Beijing in

Cambodian king and united-front leader

In June 1982 he joined the Khmer Rouge and Son Sann's KPNLF in an anti-Vietnamese coalition government and became its president, retaining Cambodia's UN seat.

King, head of state and prime minister of Cambodia. He came to the throne in 1941 under French colonial rule, led the country to independence in 1953, abdicated in 1955 to enter politics and was removed in 1970. Held under house arrest under the Khmer Rouge in 1975–1979, he led a resistance coalition allied with the Khmer Rouge in 1982–1991, was restored as king in 1993 and abdicated again in 2004.

Career timeline
  • 1941–1955King of Cambodia
  • 1955–1960Led the Sangkum and served as prime minister and head of state
  • 1960–1970Head of state
  • 1981Founded the resistance party FUNCINPEC
  • 1982–1987President of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK)
  • 1991–1993Chairman of the Supreme National Council
  • 1993–2004King of Cambodia