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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)

Any Political and party leadership 148 Government and administration 109 Legislature and state representation 35 Monarchs and royalty 9 Military command 164 Security, intelligence and policing 24 Diplomacy and international organization 55 Economy, finance and planning 8 Industry and production 4 Agriculture and land policy 5 Ideology and propaganda 14 Social movements and organizing 64 Scholarship and theory 17 Education 6 Science and technology 5 Literature and arts 11 Religion 6 Law and justice 6

Affiliation

Most people

Any Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 4 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Comintern 2 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 2 Social Democratic Party of Finland 2 General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2

All 29 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 1

Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland 2

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1 French Workers' Party (POF) 1 General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 4 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1

Hungary

Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 9

India

Indian National Congress 1

International organizations

Comintern 2

Mongolia

Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Poland

Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 ↳ Left Opposition 1

Spain

Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1

United States

Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 4 Anarchists 5 Non-Bolshevik socialists 8 Fascists and Nazis 1 National liberation and anti-colonial movements 3 Western Marxist theorists 2 Marxism and communism 30 Revolutionary socialism 1 Nationalism 5

Citizenship

Any France 10 Germany 9 Hungary 9 Soviet Union 7 Belarus 3 Russia 3 Spain 3 Finland 2 Greece 2 Poland 2 Switzerland 2 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 El Salvador 1 Estonia 1 India 1 Korea 1 Latvia 1 Lithuania 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 United Kingdom 1 United States 1

Background

Any France 10 Hungary 9 Germany 8 Finland 4 Poland 4 Russia 4 Belarus 3 Spain 3 Greece 2 Lithuania 2 Switzerland 2 Chile 1 Czechia 1 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1 El Salvador 1 Estonia 1 India 1 Korea 1 Latvia 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 United Kingdom 1 United States 1

Era(set)

Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 27 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 91 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 41 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 44 The last generation1985–1991 30

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 3 The reform generation1976–현재 1

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 7

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 14 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 64 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 52

Social movements and organizing The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945 Clear all

64 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Carl Legien Carl Legien German trade-union leader who signed the 1918 agreement with Stinnes and met the Kapp Putsch of 1920 with a general strike Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1861–1920
Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky Пётр Васильевич Вологодский A lawyer-statesman who held White Siberia together through compromise Government and administration · Russian White movement 1863–1925
Robert Emil Eichhorn Robert Emil Eichhorn German Social Democratic and Independent Social Democratic politician who headed Berlin police in 1918 Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions 1863–1925
Julian Józefowicz Marchlewski Julian Marchlewski A Pole who passed through the German and Russian revolutions and tried to bring revolution home Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1866–1925
Kurt Eisner Kurt Eisner Journalist who overthrew the Bavarian monarchy in Munich in November 1918, proclaimed the People’s State and was assassinated the next year Social movements and organizing · Germany state institutions 1867–1919
W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois "Capitalism cannot reform itself": father of the modern Negro liberation movement who joined the Communist Party at 93 Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1868–1963
Marcel Cachin Marcel Cachin Leader who took the SFIO majority into the Comintern at Tours in 1920, founding the French Communist Party, and ran L’Humanité Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF) 1869–1958
Gustav Landauer Gustav Landauer German anarchist thinker who served in Bavaria’s revolutionary government and was killed by counterrevolutionary troops in 1919. Social movements and organizing 1870–1919
Fernand Loriot Fernand Loriot French socialist and teachers’ union activist who led the Committee for the Third International Social movements and organizing · Comintern 1870–1932
Gustav Bauer Gustav Bauer Social Democratic chancellor whose government accepted the Treaty of Versailles under an Allied ultimatum Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions 1870–1944
Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg “Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently” Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1871–1919
Stanisław Grabski Stanisław Grabski An Endecja theorist who pressed for a Polish nation-state Political and party leadership · Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1871–1949
Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1873–1963
Luis Emilio Recabarren Luis Emilio Recabarren Father of the Chilean labour movement and pioneer of Latin American communism Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Chile 1876–1924
Antonín Janoušek Antonín Janoušek Czech journalist who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Slovak Soviet Republic in 1919 Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1877–1941
Alfred Rosmer Alfred Rosmer From syndicalism through the Comintern to the Fourth International: a French internationalist across a century of revolution Social movements and organizing · General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 1877–1964
Aurél Stromfeld Stromfeld Aurél Professional officer who as chief of staff of the Hungarian Red Army directed the northern campaign of 1919 Military command · Hungary 1878–1927
Sadri Maksudi Садри Максуди Tatar lawyer and Duma deputy who headed the national administration of Idel-Ural Political and party leadership 1878–1957
Jan Sierada Ян Серада Veterinarian who chaired the First All-Belarusian Congress and, as chairman of the Rada, presided over the declaration of independence Legislature and state representation · Belarus state institutions 1879–1943 이후
Piotra Krečeŭski Пётра Крэчэўскі Chairman of the Rada of the Belarusian People’s Republic from 1919 until his death, leading it in exile from Prague Legislature and state representation · Belarus state institutions 1879–1928
Léon Jouhaux Léon Jouhaux The syndicalist who led the CGT for 31 years, signed the Matignon Agreements and won the Nobel Peace Prize Social movements and organizing · General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 1879–1954
Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1880–1937
Richard Müller Richard Müller Lathe operator who led Berlin’s Revolutionary Stewards, chaired the council Executive in 1918 and later wrote the revolution’s history Social movements and organizing 1880–1943
Robert Grimm Robert Grimm Swiss socialist who organised the Zimmerwald anti-war conference of 1915 and chaired the International Socialist Commission Social movements and organizing 1881–1958
Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions 1882–1940
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1882–1945
Alexander Moiseyevich Schapiro Александр Моисеевич Шапиро The behind-the-scenes organizer who wove international anarcho-syndicalism from Amsterdam 1907 to the IWMA Social movements and organizing 1882–1946
Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst Left communist who broke from her mother's WSPU to stand with East End working women, buried among Ethiopian patriots Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1882–1960
Fritz Platten Fritz Platten Swiss communist who organised Lenin’s sealed-train journey in 1917 and sat on the Comintern’s founding presidium Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1883–1942
Ali Aaltonen Ali Aaltonen Labour journalist and former Russian army officer who became the first commander-in-chief of the Finnish Red Guards Military command · Social Democratic Party of Finland 1884–1918
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
Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1885–1936
György Lukács Lukács György Founder of Western Marxism: the Hungarian thinker who reoriented 20th-century Marxist philosophy with History and Class Consciousness Scholarship and theory · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1885–1971
Hugo Eberlein Hugo Eberlein German Communist who abstained on the Comintern’s founding at its first congress and was later shot in the Great Purge Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1887–1941
Manabendra Nath Roy মানবেন্দ্র নাথ রায় The Indian Marxist who debated Lenin on colonial revolution Political and party leadership · Comintern 1887–1954
Viktor Kingissepp Viktor Kingissepp Bolshevik who led the underground communist party in independent Estonia and was executed Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1888–1922
Elbegdorj Rinchinovich Rinchino Элбек-Доржи Ринчинович Ринчино Buryat revolutionary, drafter of Mongolia's 1924 constitution, victim of the Great Terror Political and party leadership · Mongolia 1888–1938
Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror Military command · Hungary 1890–1919
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
Andreu Nin Andreu Nin The Marxist who linked the Russian and Spanish revolutions, founder of the POUM Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 1892–1937
Agustín Farabundo Martí Agustín Farabundo Martí Father of Central American communism, Sandino's colonel, martyr of La Matanza Social movements and organizing 1893–1932
Berty Albrecht Berty Albrecht A feminist who carried anti-fascism into clandestine resistance Social movements and organizing 1893–1943
Ottó Korvin Korvin Ottó Communist who ran the political police of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as head of its political investigation department Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary 1894–1919
Kazys Škirpa Kazys Škirpa Lithuanian officer and envoy in Berlin who founded the Lithuanian Activist Front behind the June Uprising of 1941 Diplomacy and international organization · Lithuania state institutions 1895–1979
Buenaventura Durruti Buenaventura Durruti The anarchist metalworker who broke the rising in Barcelona and led the column that carried his name Social movements and organizing · Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1896–1936
Imre Sallai Sallai Imre Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1897–1932
Charles Tillon Charles Tillon A communist who carried working-class militancy into armed resistance Social movements and organizing · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1897–1993
Kim Won-bong 김원봉 Heroic Corps founder who evolved from anarchist bombings to DPRK cabinet, lone figure spanning the Korean revolutionary spectrum Social movements and organizing · Workers' Party of North Korea 1898–1958
Jean Pierre Moulin Jean Moulin The republican who bound a divided Resistance together Social movements and organizing 1899–1943
Žanis Lipke Žanis Lipke Riga docker who used his contract work for the Luftwaffe to smuggle dozens of Jews out of the ghetto and camps and hide them Social movements and organizing 1900–1987

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