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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 state institutions 1888–1938
Georgios Papandreou Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου A liberal statesman at the threshold of liberation and civil war Government and administration · Greece state institutions 1888–1968
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Dictator who built a racist war state Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime 1889–1945
Ludovic-Oscar Frossard Ludovic-Oscar Frossard SFIO general secretary who led the Tours vote to join the Comintern, became the first PCF general secretary and left in 1923 Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1889–1946
Cafer Seydahmet Cafer Seydamet Crimean Tatar politician who ran the military and foreign affairs of the Crimean People’s Republic and led the national movement in exile Military command 1889–1960
Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga The left-communist theorist who rejected parliamentarism and analyzed the USSR as state-capitalist Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1889–1970
Georgios Siantos Γιώργης Σιάντος A KKE leader who bore both the Resistance's victory and its defeat at the negotiating table Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 1890–1947
Harry Pollitt Harry Pollitt Stalin's personally approved CPGB General Secretary who led the party for 25 years Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1890–1960
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
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
Antonio Gramsci Antonio Gramsci The brain a prison was meant to stop: theorist of hegemony Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1891–1937
Arkadi Maslow Аркадий Маслов The pianist-turned-revolutionary who drove the KPD's ultra-left turn, and became the anti-Stalinist left's perpetual dissident Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1891–1941
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
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
Nurija Pozderac Nurija Pozderac A Bosnian politician who embodied a multi-ethnic resistance coalition Political and party leadership · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1892–1943
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 Government and administration · Spanish Republic state institutions 1892–1956
Sanzo Nosaka 野坂参三 International communist who founded the JCP, ran the Comintern's Pacific networks, and led the party for 24 years Political and party leadership · Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1892–1993
Sükhbaatar Сүхбаатар Military leader of Mongolia's 1921 revolution, posthumously canonized as its 'father' Military command · Mongolia state institutions 1893–1923
Hermann Göring Hermann Göring A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime 1893–1946
José Carlos Mariátegui José Carlos Mariátegui The autodidact who rewrote Marxism for the Andes Political and party leadership 1894–1930
Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess Nazi Party leader and Hitler’s deputy, sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials. Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime 1894–1987
José Díaz José Díaz From baker to General Secretary: the leader who steered Spanish communism through the Popular Front and Civil War Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1895–1942
Choibalsan Чойбалсан Mongolian revolution and consolidation Political and party leadership · Mongolia state institutions 1895–1952
Marceau Pivert Marceau Pivert The Socialist left's tribune who wrote 'Everything is possible', the Popular Front's left frontier Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1895–1958
Ruth Fischer Ruth Fischer First woman to lead a major European communist party, and its sharpest anti-Stalinist apostate Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1895–1961
Boris Konstantinovich Souvarine Boris Souvarine The only non-Bolshevik on all three leading Comintern bodies. And author of the first critical Stalin biography. Scholarship and theory · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1895–1984
Dino Grandi Dino Grandi A Fascist power broker who helped bring down Mussolini Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1895–1988
Dolores Ibárruri Dolores Ibárruri “¡No pasarán!”: the voice of anti-fascism that refused to let Franco's armies pass Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1895–1989
Hinrich Lohse Hinrich Lohse Nazi Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein who, as Reichskommissar for Ostland in 1941–1944, ordered the ghettoisation and expropriation of Jews Government and administration · Germany state institutions 1896–1964
Joaquín Juliá Maurín Joaquín Maurín A revolutionary who pursued workers' unity across communist divisions Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 1896–1973
Rajani Palme Dutt Rajani Palme Dutt CPGB founding member, chief theoretician for half a century, and pioneer of Marxist historiography on India Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1896–1974
Ferenc Szálasi Szálasi Ferenc Arrow Cross leader installed by Germany as 'Leader of the Nation' in 1944 Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions 1897–1946
Tan Malaka Tan Malaka Father of the Republic of Indonesia, the Marxist who fused communism with Islam Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1897–1949
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
Jacques Doriot Jacques Doriot The Saint-Denis Communist who demanded the popular front first and ended a fascist Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF) 1898–1945
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
Luís Carlos Prestes Luís Carlos Prestes The Knight of Hope: Brazilian revolutionary who marched 25,000 km Political and party leadership · Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1898–1990
Andrija Hebrang Andrija Hebrang A leader caught between revolutionary national politics and party centralism Political and party leadership · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1899–1949
Maurice Thorez Maurice Thorez A miner's son who built the Popular Front and led the French Communist Party for 34 years Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF) 1900–1964
Luigi Longo Luigi Longo 'Gallo': commander in Spain and the Resistance, PCI secretary-general who endured Cominform self-criticism and succeeded Togliatti Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 1900–1980
Jakub Berman Jakub Berman An architect of Stalinist power in Poland Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1901–1984
Julio Antonio Mella Julio Antonio Mella The student founder of the Cuban Communist Party martyred at 25: a face of Latin American anti-imperialism Political and party leadership 1903–1929
Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano A Fascist diplomat who became a witness to the regime's internal collapse Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions 1903–1944
Kim Chaek 김책 Korean revolutionary military leader who fought alongside Kim Il Sung in the Manchurian anti-Japanese guerrillas Military command · Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 1903–1951
Henri Rol-Tanguy Henri Rol-Tanguy Communist Resistance leader who directed the Paris uprising Military command · France state institutions 1908–2002
Stepan Bandera Степан Андрійович Бандера Ukrainian nationalist politician and leader of the OUN-B. Political and party leadership 1909–1959
Dambadorj Дамбадорж MPRP leader who joined the Danzan purge and was later expelled as a rightist Political and party leadership · Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ?–1934

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