People of the Revolution and the USSR
Political and party leadership
Background: United States
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson
US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1856–1924
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William Z. Zebulon Foster William Zebulon Foster
From leading the Great Steel Strike of 1919 to longest-serving leader of American communism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1881–1961
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John Reed John Reed
From eyewitness of the Bolshevik Revolution to founder of the Communist Labor Party of America: an American buried at the Kremlin Wall
Literature and arts · Independent activity
1887–1920
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James P. Cannon James P. Cannon
The labor organizer who read Trotsky's critique in Moscow and founded the American Trotskyist movement
Political and party leadership · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1890–1974
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Earl Russell Browder Earl Russell Browder
The CPUSA leader who declared Communism was 20th-century Americanism, and then dissolved his own party
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1891–1973
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Harry Haywood Harry Haywood
Architect of the Comintern Black Belt thesis: Southern Blacks are an oppressed nation with the right to self-determination
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1898–1985