People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin A pragmatic statesman who carried trade-union power into postwar diplomacy
- Clement Attlee Clement Attlee The laconic reformer who replaced Churchill mid-Potsdam and built Britain's postwar welfare state
- Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
- Herbert Vere Evatt Herbert Vere Evatt Australia's Foreign Minister who led the small and medium powers' fight against the great-power veto at San Francisco
- Friedrich Ebert Jr. Friedrich Ebert junior A social democrat who moved from municipal politics into state power amid Germany's division
- Kurt Schumacher Kurt Schumacher SPD leader who survived ten years in Nazi camps and, after the war, refused the merger with the Communists
- Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west
- Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
- Salvador Guillermo Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende First elected Marxist head of state; pursued the peaceful 'Chilean road to socialism' (copper, land, cybernetics) until the 1973 coup
- Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
- Micheline Ravololonarisoa Micheline Ravololonarisoa Malagasy feminist socialist leader of the 1972 student movement