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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
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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John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes
British economist who left the Treasury in protest at the peace treaty and warned of the damage reparations would do
Scholarship and theory · United Kingdom state institutions
1883–1946
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Gusztáv Jány Jány Gusztáv
Commander of the Hungarian Second Army destroyed on the Don in January 1943
Military command · Hungary
1883–1947
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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
1883–1951
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Alexandros Papagos Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος
The Greek field marshal who staked the war on the Albanian front
Military command · Greece state institutions
1883–1955
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Alan Brooke Alan Francis Brooke
Britain's professional head of the army and Allied chief strategist
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1883–1963
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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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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
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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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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
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Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六
The admiral who feared war with America yet designed Pearl Harbor
Military command · Japan state institutions
1884–1943
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Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula
Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary
1884–1944
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Jusztinián Serédi Serédi Jusztinián
Benedictine cardinal who led the Hungarian Catholic Church as Archbishop of Esztergom and Prince Primate in 1927–1945
Religion
1884–1945
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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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Hideki Tojo 東條英機
A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
Military command · Japan state institutions
1884–1948
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Mikhail Markovich Borodin Михаил Маркович Бородин
Sun Yat-sen's political advisor, architect of the First United Front, and the Comintern's global emissary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1884–1951
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Johan Laidoner Johan Laidoner
Commander-in-chief of Estonia's war of independence
Military command · Estonia state institutions
1884–1953
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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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Károly Bartha Bartha Károly
Defence minister who pressed for joining the invasion of Yugoslavia and the war on the Soviet Union, and harshened labour service
Government and administration · Hungary
1884–1964
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Édouard Daladier Édouard Daladier
The Radicals' 'Bull of Vaucluse', who helped build the Popular Front and dismantled it with his own hands
Government and administration · France state institutions
1884–1970
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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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Franz Halder Franz Halder
Chief of the German Army General Staff who planned Barbarossa and later forged the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht"
Military command · Germany state institutions
1884–1972
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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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Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov Яков Александрович Слащёв
White general who held the Perekop gateway
Military command · Russian White movement
1885–1929
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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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Michitarō Komatsubara 小松原道太郎
Imperial Japanese general defeated at Khalkhin Gol
Military command · Japan state institutions
1885–1940
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Alexandros Koryzis Αλέξανδρος Κορυζής
The Greek prime minister who accepted British aid under invasion
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1885–1941
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George S. Patton George Smith Patton Jr.
An aggressive commander of mobile warfare and military deception
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1945
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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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Seishirō Itagaki 板垣征四郎
The army strategist who turned a railway pretext into the conquest of Manchuria
Military command · Japan state institutions
1885–1948
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Aarno Sakari Armas Yrjö-Koskinen Aarno Armas Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen
Finland’s diplomat in Moscow on the eve of war
Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions
1885–1951
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Albert Kesselring Albert Kesselring
Nazi field marshal who built the Luftwaffe and directed the defence of Italy
Military command · Germany state institutions
1885–1960
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Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz
The admiral who reorganized Pacific power through intelligence and mobility
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1966
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Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski
A military leader who shaped Poland's independence struggle and armed forces in exile
Military command · Poland
1885–1969
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Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong
The American journalist who chronicled the Russian and Chinese revolutions from the inside, founder of Moscow News
Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1885–1970
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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
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Hermann Hoth Hermann Hoth
A German general whose armoured successes were inseparable from crimes on the Eastern Front
Military command · Germany state institutions
1885–1971
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Frank Jack Fletcher Frank Jack Fletcher
An operational commander of the carrier age
Military command · United States state institutions
1885–1973
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Raoul Van Overstraeten Raoul Van Overstraeten
A royal military adviser who tested wartime warnings with caution
Military command · Belgium state institutions
1885–1977
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Stanislav Čeček Stanislav Čeček
Commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
Military command · Czechoslovakia
1886–1930
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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
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
1886–1939
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Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre
National radical politician who denounced the Novi Sad massacre in parliament and was executed for preparing an anti-Nazi uprising
Legislature and state representation · Hungary
1886–1944
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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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John Gort John Vereker
The field marshal who chose withdrawal at Dunkirk
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1886–1946
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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