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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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George Ball George Ball
The Under Secretary who stopped an airstrike on Cuba with the Pearl Harbor analogy, then alone opposed escalation in Vietnam
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1909–1994
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Souphanouvong ສຸພານຸວົງ
Pathet Lao and the first presidency
Legislature and state representation · Laos
1909–1995
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Bruno Leuschner Bruno Leuschner
East German planner who ran planning in the German Economic Commission and then chaired the State Planning Commission
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1910–1965
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Edvard Kardelj Edvard Kardelj
Chief theoretician of workers' self-management and Tito's closest ideological collaborator
Political and party leadership · Yugoslavia
1910–1979
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Robert Havemann Robert Havemann
East German chemist who survived a Nazi death sentence and later, expelled from the SED, became a dissident under house arrest
Science and technology · East Germany
1910–1982
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Raya Dunayevskaya Raya Dunayevskaya
From Trotsky's secretary to founder of Marxist Humanism
Social movements and organizing · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1910–1987
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Monja Jaona Monja Jaona
Southern nationalist who joined the revolutionary front, then walked out over fraudulent elections
Political and party leadership
1910–1994
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Gus Hall Gus Hall
Finnish-American labor militant and CPUSA General Secretary for 41 years, Moscow loyalist, four-time presidential candidate
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1910–2000
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Koçi son of Dhimitër Xoxe Koçi Xoxe
Albania's postwar interior minister and deputy premier
Security, intelligence and policing · Albania
1911–1949
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Carlos Marighella Carlos Marighella
From congressman to urban guerrilla theorist: the military dictatorship's enemy number one
Social movements and organizing · Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)
1911–1969
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Han Chae-dok 韓載德
Journalist who headed propaganda for the Pyongnam CPKI
Literature and arts
1911–1970
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Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský
The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia
1911–1974
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István Bibó Bibó István
A political thinker who analyzed democracy and the crises of states
Scholarship and theory
1911–1979
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Józef Cyrankiewicz Józef Cyrankiewicz
A resistance survivor who became a guardian of the system
Government and administration · Poland
1911–1989
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Ferenc Vida Vida Ferenc
A communist judge who enforced political trials
Law and justice · Hungary
1911–1990
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Lê Đức Thọ Lê Đức Thọ
Vietnamese Politburo member who negotiated the Paris Peace Accords with Kissinger and declined the Nobel Peace Prize
Diplomacy and international organization · Vietnam
1911–1990
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Milovan Djilas Милован Ђилас
Yugoslav dissident who attacked Western communist parties at the Cominform and later dissected the communist system in The New Class
Political and party leadership · Yugoslavia
1911–1995
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Todor Hristov Zhivkov Тодор Христов Живков
The Eastern Bloc's longest-serving leader, 35 years as Moscow's most loyal Balkan ally
Political and party leadership · Bulgaria
1911–1998
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Son Sann សឺន សាន
Cambodian anti-communist resistance leader
Political and party leadership
1911–2000
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Ronald Wilson Reagan Ronald Reagan
The Cold War's last American president, who genuinely believed in nuclear abolition but would not yield on SDI
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1911–2004
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Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp
The history teacher who defeated two empires without ever attending a military academy
Military command · Vietnam
1911–2013
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Boris Kidrič Boris Kidrič
Yugoslav revolutionary who designed the economic theory of workers' self-management
Economy, finance and planning · Yugoslavia
1912–1953
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Henry M. Jackson Henry M. Jackson
A hawkish Democratic senator who tied Soviet trade status to Jewish emigration
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1912–1983
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Vladimir Bakarić Vladimir Bakarić
A communist leader who negotiated republican interests within federal socialism
Political and party leadership · Yugoslavia
1912–1983
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Roman Fidelski Roman Fidelski
The minister whose broken promise sparked the Poznań Uprising
Industry and production · Poland
1912–1988
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János Kádár Kádár János
Architect of 'goulash communism', enforcer of the 1956 reprisals
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1912–1989
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Erich Honecker Erich Honecker
The long-serving East German leader of the walled republic
Political and party leadership · East Germany
1912–1994
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Kim Il Sung 김일성
The founder of North Korea returned from the Soviet Far East
Political and party leadership · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
1912–1994
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Béla Király Király Béla
The general and contested witness of 1956
Military command · Hungary
1912–2009
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Nam Il 남일
The Soviet-Korean general who signed the Korean Armistice at Panmunjom
Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
1913–1976
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Nol Lon លន់ នល់
Cambodian military officer and politician who led the Khmer Republic as prime minister and president
Military command · Cambodia state institutions
1913–1985
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Ferenc Donáth Donáth Ferenc
A politician who linked revolution and reform while carrying the wounds of dictatorship
Agriculture and land policy · Hungary
1913–1986
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Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák
Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization'
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia
1913–1991
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Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt
A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1913–1992
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Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek
A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights
Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia
1913–1993
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Richard Milhous Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon
The Cold Warrior who opened détente with Moscow and Beijing, then became the only U.S. president to resign
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1913–1994
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Bảo Đại Bảo Đại
Last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, who abdicated in 1945 and returned as head of the French-backed State of Vietnam
Monarchs and royalty · Vietnam
1913–1997
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Edward Gierek Edward Gierek
First Secretary who led a decade of Western-credit modernisation: only for debt and Solidarity to bring the curtain down
Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR)
1913–2001
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Gerald Ford Gerald Ford
The unelected president who steered détente into its final phase
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1913–2006
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Charles Vanik Charles Vanik
The congressman who made emigration a condition of trade
Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions
1913–2007
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Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire
Co-founder of Négritude, pioneering critic of colonialism
Literature and arts · French Communist Party (PCF)
1913–2008
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Gerard Smith Gerard C. Smith
A negotiator of the nuclear age
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1914–1994
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Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Jan Nowak-Jeziorański
A Polish courier who connected resistance, exile, and radio
Literature and arts
1914–2005
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William Westmoreland William Westmoreland
US Army general who commanded American forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 and pursued a strategy of attrition measured by body count
Military command · United States state institutions
1914–2005
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Nouhak Phoumsavan ໜູຮັກ ພູມສະຫວັນ
Lao revolutionary leader and president
Political and party leadership · Lao People's Revolutionary Party
1914–2008
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Claudia Jones Claudia Jones
The Black feminist Marxist who pioneered intersectional analysis, and created the Notting Hill Carnival
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1915–1964
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Marian Rybicki Marian Rybicki
A legal functionary who defined order against a workers’ revolt
Law and justice · Poland
1915–1987
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Arthur Lundahl Arthur C. Lundahl
The founding father of photo interpretation whose analysts spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba and triggered the crisis
Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions
1915–1992
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Józef Światło Józef Światło
Deputy head of Poland’s security Department X whose 1953 defection and broadcasts exposed the ministry’s torture and purges
Security, intelligence and policing · Poland
1915–1994
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Thomas Brimelow Thomas Brimelow
A practical architect of nuclear diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions
1915–1995