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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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Frederick Lindemann Frederick Lindemann
The physicist who pushed wartime science into grand strategy
Science and technology
1886–1957
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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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Raymond A. Spruance Raymond Ames Spruance
A cool-headed carrier commander at Midway
Military command · United States state institutions
1886–1969
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Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Heinrici
The Wehrmacht's defensive specialist on the Eastern Front
Military command · Germany state institutions
1886–1971
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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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Charles I Karl I.
Last Habsburg monarch, Emperor Charles I of Austria and King Charles IV of Hungary, who twice tried to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921
Monarchs and royalty · Austria state institutions
1887–1922
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Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics
Latvia's first foreign minister, who won international recognition for its independence
Diplomacy and international organization · Latvia state institutions
1887–1925
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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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Mitsuru Ushijima 牛島満
Japanese general who directed Okinawa's war of attrition
Military command · Japan state institutions
1887–1945
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Ferenc Szombathelyi Szombathelyi Ferenc
Chief of the General Staff who ordered the Bačka intervention behind the Novi Sad massacre and later sought contact with the West
Military command · Hungary state institutions
1887–1946
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Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich von Vietinghoff
The general who represented Germany's surrender in Italy
Military command · Germany state institutions
1887–1952
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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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Antanas Merkys Antanas Merkys
Last prime minister of independent Lithuania, who accepted the Soviet ultimatum of 1940, took the presidency and handed power to Paleckis
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1887–1955
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Mamoru Shigemitsu 重光葵
A diplomat of empire who became the defeated state's signatory
Diplomacy and international organization · Japan state institutions
1887–1957
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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
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Miklós Kállay Kállay Miklós
Wartime prime minister who refused German deportation demands and sought a secret armistice with the Western Allies
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1887–1967
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Alexander Vandegrift Alexander Vandegrift
The general who defended Guadalcanal and the Marine Corps
Military command · United States state institutions
1887–1973
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Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein
Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1887–1973
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Bernard Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery
Commander of the Allied ground forces in Normandy
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1887–1976
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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
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Nestor Ivanovich Makhno Нестор Иванович Махно
The anarchist peasant commander who fought Bolsheviks, Whites, Germans, and nationalists in succession
Military command · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists)
1888–1934
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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
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Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian
A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
Military command · Germany state institutions
1888–1954
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Karl Jäger Karl Jäger
Commander of Einsatzkommando 3 who directed the murder of Lithuania’s Jews and tallied it in the Jäger Report
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1888–1959
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Georgios Papandreou Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου
A liberal statesman at the threshold of liberation and civil war
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1888–1968
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Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch
Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1888–1971
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Ibrahim Bek Ibrohimbek Laqay
Lakai tribal chief who fought for the restoration of the Emir of Bukhara as the leading Basmachi commander in eastern Bukhara
Military command
1889–1931
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Willi Münzenberg Willi Münzenberg
The 'Red Millionaire' who exposed Nazi terror through publishing, the Comintern's greatest propagandist, who broke with Stalin
Ideology and propaganda · Comintern
1889–1940
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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler
Dictator who built a racist war state
Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime
1889–1945
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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
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Kanji Ishiwara 石原莞爾
The theorist who designed Japan's Manchurian expansion
Military command · Japan state institutions
1889–1949
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Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
The general who defied Vichy and led the Liberation Army
Military command · France state institutions
1889–1952
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Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti
Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1889–1956
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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
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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
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Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor
Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror
Military command · Hungary state institutions
1890–1919
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Roger Salengro Roger Salengro
The Popular Front's interior minister, hounded to death by the far-right press
Government and administration · France state institutions
1890–1936
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Jüri Uluots Jüri Uluots
Law professor and Estonia’s last constitutional prime minister who, acting as president, formed the Tief government in 1944
Government and administration · Estonia state institutions
1890–1945
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Alfred Jodl Alfred Jodl
An operational architect of Nazi Germany's war
Military command · Germany state institutions
1890–1946
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Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc
Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
Military command · Hungary state institutions
1890–1946
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Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins
A New Deal administrator turned wartime diplomatic envoy
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1890–1946
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László Bárdossy Bárdossy László
Wartime prime minister who declared war on the Soviet Union over the Kassa bombing and approved the deportation of Jews
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1890–1946
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George II of Greece Γεώργιος Βʹ
Patron of the restored monarchy and Metaxas dictatorship
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1890–1947
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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
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Béla Miklós Miklós Béla
Commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Soviets in October 1944 and headed the provisional government in Debrecen
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1890–1948
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John P. Lucas John Porter Lucas
The cautious commander of Anzio
Military command · United States state institutions
1890–1949
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Iván Héjjas Héjjas Iván
White Terror commander whose detachment around Kecskemét carried out the Orgovány killings and the Izsák pogrom
Military command · Hungary state institutions
1890–1950
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Friedrich Paulus Friedrich Paulus
A field commander undone by the collision of orders and reality
Military command · Germany state institutions
1890–1957
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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
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Erik Heinrichs Axel Erik Heinrichs
A Finnish general at the boundary of war and diplomacy
Military command · Finland state institutions
1890–1965