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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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Omar Nelson Bradley Omar Nelson Bradley
The U.S. Army commander who led the Normandy campaign
Military command · United States state institutions
1893–1981
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Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege Hans Freiherr von Manteuffel-Szoege
Baltic Landeswehr strike-troop commander who led the Liepāja coup and fell at Riga
Military command
1894–1919
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Ottó Korvin Korvin Ottó
Communist who ran the political police of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as head of its political investigation department
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary state institutions
1894–1919
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José Carlos Mariátegui José Carlos Mariátegui
The autodidact who rewrote Marxism for the Andes
Political and party leadership
1894–1930
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Dietrich von Hugo Hermann Choltitz Dietrich von Choltitz
The German general who surrendered Paris rather than destroy it
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1894–1966
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Vicente Rojo Vicente Rojo Lluch
The Catholic general who defended the Republic
Military command · Spanish Republic state institutions
1894–1966
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Robert Daniel Murphy Robert Daniel Murphy
The diplomat who read the danger in Berlin first
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1894–1978
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Jukka Rangell Jukka Rangell
Prime minister who declared Finland at war in 1941 and was later convicted in the war-responsibility trials
Economy, finance and planning · Finland state institutions
1894–1982
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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
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Augusto César Sandino Augusto César Sandino
Pan-Latin American anti-imperialist hero who waged guerrilla war against US occupation of Nicaragua
Military command
1895–1934
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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
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Stefan Rowecki Stefan Paweł Rowecki
An underground commander who grasped Tempest's political conditions
Military command · Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK)
1895–1944
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Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Dirlewanger
SS special-unit commander implicated in the Wola massacre
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1895–1945
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Friedrich Jeckeln Friedrich Jeckeln
Higher SS and Police Leader who directed the mass shootings at Kamianets-Podilskyi, Babi Yar and Rumbula
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1895–1946
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László Endre Endre László
Interior Ministry state secretary who in 1944 ran the ghettoisation and deportation of Hungary’s Jews with László Baky
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1895–1946
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Choibalsan Чойбалсан
Mongolian revolution and consolidation
Political and party leadership · Mongolia state institutions
1895–1952
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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
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Antoni None Chruściel Antoni Chruściel
The Home Army commander who organized and launched the uprising
Military command · Poland state institutions
1895–1960
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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
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Eljas Erkko Eljas Erkko
Finnish foreign minister who dismissed Stalin's demands as a bluff and overruled Mannerheim's counsel to compromise
Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions
1895–1965
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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
The Home Army commander whose decision led to both the uprising and its surrender
Military command · Poland state institutions
1895–1966
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Carl Lutz Carl Lutz
Swiss vice-consul in Budapest who saved tens of thousands of Jews with protective letters and safe houses
Diplomacy and international organization · Switzerland state institutions
1895–1975
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Kazys Škirpa Kazys Škirpa
Lithuanian officer and envoy in Berlin who founded the Lithuanian Activist Front behind the June Uprising of 1941
Diplomacy and international organization · Lithuania state institutions
1895–1979
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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
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Dino Grandi Dino Grandi
A Fascist power broker who helped bring down Mussolini
Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions
1895–1988
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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
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Buenaventura Durruti Buenaventura Durruti
The anarchist metalworker who broke the rising in Barcelona and led the column that carried his name
Social movements and organizing · Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)
1896–1936
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Andor Jaross Jaross Andor
Hungarian minority leader in Czechoslovakia who, as interior minister in Sztójay’s cabinet in 1944, organised the deportation of Jews
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1896–1946
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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
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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
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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
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Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark
An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost
Military command · United States state institutions
1896–1984
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Imre Sallai Sallai Imre
Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1897–1932
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Joseph Goebbels Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Party propaganda chief and minister who promoted antisemitism and dictatorship.
Ideology and propaganda · Germany state institutions
1897–1945
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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
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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
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Paavo Talvela Paavo Talvela
Mannerheim's secret envoy to Berlin who brokered the German-Finnish military pact that led to the Continuation War
Military command · Finland state institutions
1897–1973
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Cipriano Mera Cipriano Mera Sanz
The anarchist IV Army Corps commander who saved Casado's Madrid coup from Communist counter-attack
Military command · Spanish Republic state institutions
1897–1975
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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
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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
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László Baky Baky László
Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1898–1946
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Bertolt Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Bertolt Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
Marxist playwright who weaponized theatre for class struggle through epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt
Literature and arts · Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD)
1898–1956
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Kim Won-bong 김원봉
Heroic Corps founder who evolved from anarchist bombings to DPRK cabinet, lone figure spanning the Korean revolutionary spectrum
Social movements and organizing · Workers' Party of North Korea
1898–1958
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Vilhelms Munters Vilhelms Munters
Latvian foreign minister who signed the Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty in 1939 and was deported to the Soviet Union in 1940
Diplomacy and international organization · Latvia state institutions
1898–1967
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Paul Leroy Robeson Paul Leroy Robeson
The artist who turned 'Ol' Man River' into a hymn of struggle
Literature and arts
1898–1976
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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
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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
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Jean Pierre Moulin Jean Moulin
The republican who bound a divided Resistance together
Social movements and organizing
1899–1943
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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
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Michał Kalecki Michał Kalecki
The Marxist macroeconomist who formalized effective demand before Keynes
Scholarship and theory
1899–1970