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- Philipp Scheidemann Philipp Scheidemann SPD politician who proclaimed the republic from a Reichstag window on 9 November 1918 and became Weimar’s first head of government
- Józef Piłsudski Józef Piłsudski The soldier-politician who began as a socialist, became Head of State of reborn Poland, broke the Red Army's westward drive at Warsaw in 1920, and later ruled through a coup-built authoritarian regime
- Béla Somogyi Somogyi Béla Editor of the Social Democratic Népszava who was murdered by an officer detachment in 1920 for exposing the White Terror
- Francisco Largo Caballero Francisco Largo Caballero The UGT worker-leader they called the Spanish Lenin, a prime minister broken between revolution and war
- Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum
- Karl Renner Karl Renner Austrian Social Democratic leader who signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain and founded the Second Republic in 1945
- Léon Blum Léon Blum France's first Socialist prime minister, who left behind paid holidays and the 40-hour week
- Gyula Peidl Peidl Gyula Printer and Social Democratic leader who headed the six-day “trade-union government” after the fall of the Soviet Republic
- Ivanoe Bonomi Ivanoe Bonomi A reformist politician who organized compromises between fascism's fall and the monarchy
- Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government
- Hermann Müller Hermann Müller A Social Democratic politician of the Weimar Republic who served twice as chancellor.
- Jan Sierada Ян Серада Veterinarian who chaired the First All-Belarusian Congress and, as chairman of the Rada, presided over the declaration of independence
- Sándor Garbai Garbai Sándor Bricklayer turned Social Democrat who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Vilmos Böhm Böhm Vilmos Social Democratic leader who was defence commissar and Red Army commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко Ukrainian Social Democratic writer who led the Rada's General Secretariat and the Directory
- Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
- 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
- Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț Bessarabian politician who presided over Sfatul Țării and the Moldavian Democratic Republic and saw through its union with Romania
- 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
- Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first
- Roger Salengro Roger Salengro The Popular Front's interior minister, hounded to death by the far-right press
- 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
- Léo Lagrange Léo Lagrange The undersecretary for leisure and sport who designed the workers' first holidays