People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
Conservatism and Christian democracy
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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- George Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon Conservative viceroy of India and foreign secretary who gave his name to the Curzon Line and led the Allies at Lausanne
- Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Head of the Finnish Senate who declared independence and sought German intervention in the civil war
- István Bethlen Bethlen István Transylvanian aristocrat who, as prime minister in 1921–1931, consolidated the Horthy regime with a restricted franchise and a League loan
- Herbert C. Hoover Herbert Hoover Master of famine relief and the 31st president, broken by the Great Depression
- Pál Teleki Teleki Pál Geographer of the “Red map” who was twice prime minister and killed himself in 1941 as German troops crossed Hungary
- 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
- Miklós Kállay Kállay Miklós Wartime prime minister who refused German deportation demands and sought a secret armistice with the Western Allies
- 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
- Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934