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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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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
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Gustav Stresemann Gustav Stresemann
Weimar chancellor who ended passive resistance in 1923 and, as foreign minister, concluded the Locarno treaties
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1878–1929
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Sadri Maksudi Садри Максуди
Tatar lawyer and Duma deputy who headed the national administration of Idel-Ural
Political and party leadership
1878–1957
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Angelica Isaakovna Balabanova Анжелика Исааковна Балабанова
The Comintern's first secretary, who taught Mussolini and branded him traitor
Political and party leadership · Comintern
1878–1965
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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
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Pál Teleki Teleki Pál
Geographer of the “Red map” who was twice prime minister and killed himself in 1941 as German troops crossed Hungary
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1879–1941
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Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander
Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1879–1943
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Sándor Garbai Garbai Sándor
Bricklayer turned Social Democrat who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions
1879–1947
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Mirza Kuchik Khan میرزا كوچک خان
Iranian revolutionary who led the Jungle movement of Gilan and proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Gilan in 1920
Political and party leadership
1880–1921
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Jan Dąbski Jan Dąbski
A peasant-movement diplomat who shaped the Riga peace
Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions
1880–1931
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Vincas Kapsukas Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas
Founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party who headed Soviet Lithuania and Litbel
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1880–1935
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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
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Kullervo Achilles Manner Kullervo Achilles Manner
Head of Finland's 1918 Red revolutionary government, who later led the exiled Communist Party and served the Comintern
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Finland
1880–1939
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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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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Gallipoli commander who led the national movement and founded the Republic of Turkey as its first president
Political and party leadership · Turkey state institutions
1881–1938
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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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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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Väinö Alfred Tanner Väinö Alfred Tanner
The Social Democratic realist who faced Stalin as Finland's Winter War foreign minister, rising from the cooperative movement
Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Finland
1881–1966
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Heinrich Brandler Heinrich Brandler
KPD chairman who called off a revolution; co-founder of the International Right Opposition
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1881–1967
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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
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Kâzım Karabekir Kâzım Karabekir
Eastern Front commander of the Turkish War of Independence who invaded Armenia in 1920 and imposed the Treaty of Alexandropol
Military command · Turkey state institutions
1882–1948
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Georgi Mihaylov Dimitrov Георги Михайлов Димитров
From Leipzig defendant to Comintern General Secretary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1949
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Eugen Leviné Eugen Leviné
Communist who led the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 and was shot after its fall
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1883–1919
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Paul Levi Paul Levi
From Rosa Luxemburg's lawyer to KPD leader, his 'anti-putschism' took on Comintern adventurism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1883–1930
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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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Henk Sneevliet Henk Sneevliet
The Dutch revolutionary who planted communist seeds in Indonesia and China, then fought both Stalinism and Nazism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)
1883–1942
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Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini
The dictator who turned fascism into state power
Political and party leadership · National Fascist Party (PNF)
1883–1945
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István Friedrich Friedrich István
Factory owner who was prime minister of Hungary for three months after the August 1919 coup against the Peidl government
Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions
1883–1951
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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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Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt
Head of the Estonian Workers' Commune and leader of the 1924 rising
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1884–1937
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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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August Thalheimer August Thalheimer
Main theorist of the KPD and Bonapartist analyst of fascism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPO)
1884–1948
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Mammad Amin Rasulzade Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə
Musavat leader who headed the Azerbaijani National Council that declared the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918
Political and party leadership
1884–1955
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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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Alexandra Petrovna Kim Александра Петровна Ким
The first Korean communist, who gave her life bridging the Russian Revolution and Korean liberation
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1918
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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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Danzan Данзан
Founding member and first party chairman, shot as a 'bourgeois'
Political and party leadership · Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
1885–1924
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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
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François de La Rocque François de La Rocque
The colonel of the Croix-de-Feu who turned his columns away from the Chamber
Political and party leadership
1885–1946
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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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Béla Kun Kun Béla
133 days of the second Soviet state in Europe, and the execution cellar 19 years later
Political and party leadership · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1886–1938
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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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Ernst Thälmann Ernst Thälmann
Hitler's personal prisoner, unbroken by eleven years in solitary
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1886–1944
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André Marty André Marty
The naval engineer who led the Black Sea mutiny and rose to the Comintern Secretariat
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1886–1956
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Karl Korsch Karl Korsch
Co-founder of Western Marxism, the German philosopher who challenged Marxist orthodoxy with Marxism and Philosophy
Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1886–1961
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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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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
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Manabendra Nath Roy মানবেন্দ্র নাথ রায়
The Indian Marxist who debated Lenin on colonial revolution
Political and party leadership · Comintern
1887–1954
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Pierre Taittinger Pierre Taittinger
The deputy who founded the Jeunesses Patriotes, holding a street force and a seat in the Chamber at once
Political and party leadership
1887–1965