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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
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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Vilmos Böhm Böhm Vilmos
Social Democratic leader who was defence commissar and Red Army commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Military command · Hungary state institutions
1880–1949
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко
Ukrainian Social Democratic writer who led the Rada's General Secretariat and the Directory
Government and administration · Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions
1880–1951
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István Haller Haller István
Christian Socialist politician who, as minister of religion and education, prepared and tabled the numerus clausus bill of 1920
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1880–1964
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Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling
Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia
Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions
1881–1938
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Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski
A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return
Military command · Poland state institutions
1881–1943
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Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer Keresztes-Fischer Ferenc
Conservative ally of Bethlen who as interior minister twice used the police to hold down radical movements of left and right
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1881–1948
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Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი
Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Diplomacy and international organization · Georgia state institutions
1881–1954
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Károly Peyer Peyer Károly
Hungarian Social Democratic and trade-union leader who won legal status for his party in the Bethlen–Peyer Pact of 1921
Legislature and state representation · Hungary state institutions
1881–1956
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Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1882–1945
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Ion Antonescu Ion Antonescu
The Conducător who took Romania into the Axis war against the Soviet Union and ordered the killings in Transnistria, executed at Jilava in 1946
Government and administration · Romania state institutions
1882–1946
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Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
Lithuanian writer who led the “People’s Government” of 1940 and resigned after Molotov told him the Baltic states would join the USSR
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1882–1954
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Dušan Simović Душан Симовић
The soldier-premier caught between a coup and defeat
Military command · Yugoslavia state institutions
1882–1962
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Vaclau Lastouski Вацлаў Ластоўскі
Historian who headed the government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in exile, moved to Soviet Byelorussia and was executed
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1883–1938
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Augustinas Voldemaras Augustinas Voldemaras
Lithuania's first prime minister, later leader of the far-right Iron Wolf
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1883–1942
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Pierre Laval Pierre Laval
A republican politician who became an architect of Vichy collaboration
Government and administration · France state institutions
1883–1945
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Döme Sztójay Sztójay Döme
Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1883–1946
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Pan Halippa Pan Halippa
Journalist and politician who, as vice-president and later president of Sfatul Țării, led the movement for Bessarabia’s union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1883–1979
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Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț
Bessarabian politician who presided over Sfatul Țării and the Moldavian Democratic Republic and saw through its union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1940
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Anton Luckievič Антон Луцкевіч
Founder of the Hramada who, as prime minister of the Belarusian People’s Republic, sought its recognition at the Paris Peace Conference
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1884–1942
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Hideki Tojo 東條英機
A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
Military command · Japan state institutions
1884–1948
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Károly Bartha Bartha Károly
Defence minister who pressed for joining the invasion of Yugoslavia and the war on the Soviet Union, and harshened labour service
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1884–1964
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Édouard Daladier Édouard Daladier
The Radicals' 'Bull of Vaucluse', who helped build the Popular Front and dismantled it with his own hands
Government and administration · France state institutions
1884–1970
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Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan
Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first
Government and administration · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1971
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İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü
Officer who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne and succeeded Atatürk as Turkey’s second president
Political and party leadership · Turkey state institutions
1884–1973
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Noman Çelebicihan Номан Челебиджихан
First head of the Crimean People’s Republic, the first elected mufti of Crimea and the poet of the Crimean Tatar anthem
Government and administration
1885–1918
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Alexandros Koryzis Αλέξανδρος Κορυζής
The Greek prime minister who accepted British aid under invasion
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1885–1941
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Gyula Gömbös Gömbös Gyula
Right-radical officer who organised the Szeged National Army and as prime minister in 1932–1936 steered Hungary towards Italy and Germany
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1886–1936
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Kálmán Darányi Darányi Kálmán
Gömbös’s successor as prime minister in 1936–1938, who announced the Győr programme and introduced the First Jewish Law
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1886–1939
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Antanas Merkys Antanas Merkys
Last prime minister of independent Lithuania, who accepted the Soviet ultimatum of 1940, took the presidency and handed power to Paleckis
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1887–1955
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Miklós Kállay Kállay Miklós
Wartime prime minister who refused German deportation demands and sought a secret armistice with the Western Allies
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1887–1967
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Georgios Papandreou Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου
A liberal statesman at the threshold of liberation and civil war
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1888–1968
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Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti
Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1889–1956
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Roger Salengro Roger Salengro
The Popular Front's interior minister, hounded to death by the far-right press
Government and administration · France state institutions
1890–1936
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Jüri Uluots Jüri Uluots
Law professor and Estonia’s last constitutional prime minister who, acting as president, formed the Tief government in 1944
Government and administration · Estonia state institutions
1890–1945
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Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc
Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
Military command · Hungary state institutions
1890–1946
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Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins
A New Deal administrator turned wartime diplomatic envoy
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1890–1946
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László Bárdossy Bárdossy László
Wartime prime minister who declared war on the Soviet Union over the Kassa bombing and approved the deportation of Jews
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1890–1946
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George II of Greece Γεώργιος Βʹ
Patron of the restored monarchy and Metaxas dictatorship
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1890–1947
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Béla Miklós Miklós Béla
Commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Soviets in October 1944 and headed the provisional government in Debrecen
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1890–1948
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Géza Lakatos Lakatos Géza
General who as prime minister in August–October 1944 halted the Jewish deportations and prepared an armistice until the Arrow Cross coup
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1890–1967
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Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди
Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1970
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle
A statesman who declared that France would continue the war amid defeat
Government and administration · France state institutions
1890–1970
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Fumimaro Konoe 近衞文麿
An aristocratic statesman whose diplomacy widened Japan’s imperial war
Government and administration · Japan state institutions
1891–1945
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Béla Imrédy Imrédy Béla
Prime minister who swung Hungary towards Germany and drafted the Second Jewish Law, then fell over his own Jewish ancestry
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1891–1946
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Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß
Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934
Government and administration · Austria state institutions
1892–1934
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Ivan Šubašić Ivan Šubašić
A conciliator between the monarchy and the national liberation movement
Government and administration · Yugoslavia state institutions
1892–1955
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Juan Negrín Juan Negrín
The physiologist trained in Leipzig who sent the Republic's gold to Moscow and chose to fight to the end as its last prime minister
Government and administration · Spanish Republic state institutions
1892–1956
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Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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László Endre Endre László
Interior Ministry state secretary who in 1944 ran the ghettoisation and deportation of Hungary’s Jews with László Baky
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1895–1946
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Andor Jaross Jaross Andor
Hungarian minority leader in Czechoslovakia who, as interior minister in Sztójay’s cabinet in 1944, organised the deportation of Jews
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1896–1946