People of the Revolution and the USSR
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- Jaan Tõnisson Jaan Tõnisson Estonian prime minister who concluded the Treaty of Tartu, publisher of Postimees
- Stanisław Grabski Stanisław Grabski An Endecja theorist who pressed for a Polish nation-state
- Sadri Maksudi Садри Максуди Tatar lawyer and Duma deputy who headed the national administration of Idel-Ural
- 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
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Gallipoli commander who led the national movement and founded the Republic of Turkey as its first president
- Kâzım Karabekir Kâzım Karabekir Eastern Front commander of the Turkish War of Independence who invaded Armenia in 1920 and imposed the Treaty of Alexandropol
- Vaclau Lastouski Вацлаў Ластоўскі Historian who headed the government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in exile, moved to Soviet Byelorussia and was executed
- 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
- Mammad Amin Rasulzade Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə Musavat leader who headed the Azerbaijani National Council that declared the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918
- İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü Officer who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne and succeeded Atatürk as Turkey’s second president
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Stepan Bandera Степан Андрійович Бандера Ukrainian nationalist politician and leader of the OUN-B.