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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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Géza Lakatos Lakatos Géza
General who as prime minister in August–October 1944 halted the Jewish deportations and prepared an armistice until the Arrow Cross coup
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1890–1967
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower
The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex
Military command · United States state institutions
1890–1969
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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
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle
A statesman who declared that France would continue the war amid defeat
Government and administration · France state institutions
1890–1970
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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
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Béla Bacsó Bacsó Béla
Socialist writer and Népszava journalist murdered with Béla Somogyi in 1920 for writing against the White Terror
Ideology and propaganda
1891–1920
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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
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Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets Євген Михайлович Коновалець
Ukrainian nationalist leader who commanded the Sich Riflemen and built the UVO and OUN
Military command · Ukrainian People's Republic state institutions
1891–1938
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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
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Fumimaro Konoe 近衞文麿
An aristocratic statesman whose diplomacy widened Japan’s imperial war
Government and administration · Japan state institutions
1891–1945
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi 栗林忠道
The Iwo Jima commander who understood American power
Military command · Japan state institutions
1891–1945
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Walter Model Walter Model
Hitler's "fireman" who rushed from crisis to crisis on the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht's most tenacious defensive commander
Military command · Germany state institutions
1891–1945
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Béla Imrédy Imrédy Béla
Prime minister who swung Hungary towards Germany and drafted the Second Jewish Law, then fell over his own Jewish ancestry
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1891–1946
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Helmuth Weidling Helmuth Weidling
The final Berlin commander of a collapsing Reich
Military command · Germany state institutions
1891–1955
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Napoleon Zervas Ναπολέων Ζέρβας
A military leader between wartime resistance and anti-communist politics
Military command
1891–1957
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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
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Karl Dönitz Karl Dönitz
German naval commander of the U-boat fleet who briefly became head of state after Hitler's death.
Military command · Germany state institutions
1891–1980
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Edward Raczyński Edward Raczyński
An aristocratic diplomat who preserved Poland’s diplomatic continuity in exile
Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions
1891–1993
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József Cserny Cserny József
Communist paramilitary commander who led the Lenin Boys and was a leading participant in the Red Terror of 1919
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary state institutions
1892–1919
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Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß
Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934
Government and administration · Austria state institutions
1892–1934
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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
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Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin
Frankfurt School's spectral companion, Marxist critic who dissected capitalist culture through the lens of mechanical reproduction
Scholarship and theory
1892–1940
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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
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Trafford Leigh-Mallory Trafford Leigh-Mallory
An air commander who made army cooperation central to Allied air power
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1892–1944
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Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo
Finnish Jäger lieutenant general who destroyed two Soviet divisions at Suomussalmi with motti tactics
Military command · Finland state institutions
1892–1947
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Radola Gajda Radola Gajda
A legion commander who carried battlefield success into White politics
Military command · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1892–1948
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Ivan Šubašić Ivan Šubašić
A conciliator between the monarchy and the national liberation movement
Government and administration · Yugoslavia state institutions
1892–1955
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Alexandros Svolos Αλέξανδρος Σβώλος
A socialist constitutional scholar who sought to ground sovereignty in the people
Law and justice
1892–1956
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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
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Sumner Welles Sumner Welles
US Under Secretary of State whose Welles Declaration of July 1940 refused to recognise the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1892–1961
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Francisco Franco Francisco Franco
The general who turned the rising into victory and ruled Spain for thirty-six years as Caudillo
Military command · Spain state institutions
1892–1975
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József Mindszenty Mindszenty József
Archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal sentenced to life in a 1949 show trial, who sheltered in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956
Religion
1892–1975
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Keith Rodney Park Keith Rodney Park
The air-defence commander at the heart of the Battle of Britain
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1892–1975
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Arthur Harris Arthur Travers Harris
The air commander who made strategic bombing central to total war
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1892–1984
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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
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Sükhbaatar Сүхбаатар
Military leader of Mongolia's 1921 revolution, posthumously canonized as its 'father'
Military command · Mongolia state institutions
1893–1923
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Agustín Farabundo Martí Agustín Farabundo Martí
Father of Central American communism, Sandino's colonel, martyr of La Matanza
Social movements and organizing
1893–1932
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Ernst Toller Ernst Toller
German Jewish Expressionist playwright who took part in the Bavarian revolution
Literature and arts · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD)
1893–1939
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Berty Albrecht Berty Albrecht
A feminist who carried anti-fascism into clandestine resistance
Social movements and organizing
1893–1943
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Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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Draža Mihailović Драгољуб Михаиловић
A Serbian nationalist commander who sought to restore the monarchy
Military command · Yugoslavia state institutions
1893–1946
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Hermann Göring Hermann Göring
A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder
Political and party leadership · Nazi party and regime
1893–1946
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Joachim von Ribbentrop Joachim von Ribbentrop
Nazi Germany’s foreign minister, he played a key role in negotiating the German-Soviet nonaggression pact.
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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Grigory Naumovich Voitinsky Григорий Наумович Войтинский
The Comintern's first envoy who midwifed the Chinese Communist Party
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1893–1953
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Segismundo Casado Segismundo Casado
The Republican general who overthrew Negrín to negotiate peace with Franco, and got only unconditional surrender
Military command · Spanish Republic state institutions
1893–1968
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Ronald Scobie Ronald MacKenzie Scobie
The British general who commanded the Battle of Athens
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1893–1969
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William Sholto Douglas William Sholto Douglas
The RAF commander who turned Fighter Command from defence toward offence
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1893–1969
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Konstantinos Maniadakis Κωνσταντίνος Μανιαδάκης
Architect of the dictatorship's security apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Greece state institutions
1893–1972
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Paul Karađorđević Pavle Karađorđević
A regent pressed toward the Axis while trying to keep Yugoslavia out of war
Monarchs and royalty · Yugoslavia state institutions
1893–1976
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Giuseppe Castellano Giuseppe Castellano
The general who signed an incomplete transition
Military command · Italy state institutions
1893–1977