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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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Koço Tashko Koço Tashko
Albanian communist activist and diplomat
Diplomacy and international organization · Albania state institutions
1899–1984
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Léo Lagrange Léo Lagrange
The undersecretary for leisure and sport who designed the workers' first holidays
Government and administration · France state institutions
1900–1940
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Walter Stahlecker Walter Stahlecker
SS officer who led Einsatzgruppe A in 1941, instigating the Kaunas pogrom and directing the murder of Baltic Jews
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1942
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Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler
A principal architect of the Nazi racial state
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1945
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Maurice Thorez Maurice Thorez
A miner's son who built the Popular Front and led the French Communist Party for 34 years
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1900–1964
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Otto Braun Otto Braun
“Li De”, the only Westerner on the Long March and the Comintern military adviser blamed at Zunyi
Military command · Comintern
1900–1974
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James Martin Stagg James Martin Stagg
The meteorologist whose forecast shaped an invasion
Scholarship and theory
1900–1975
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Luigi Longo Luigi Longo
'Gallo': commander in Spain and the Resistance, PCI secretary-general who endured Cominform self-criticism and succeeded Togliatti
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI)
1900–1980
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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff
A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1984
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Žanis Lipke Žanis Lipke
Riga docker who used his contract work for the Luftwaffe to smuggle dozens of Jews out of the ghetto and camps and hide them
Social movements and organizing
1900–1987
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Hotsumi Ozaki 尾崎秀実
Konoe's confidant and the spy who helped save Moscow
Security, intelligence and policing
1901–1944
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Hjalmar Mäe Hjalmar Mäe
Estonian Vaps politician who headed the collaborationist Estonian Self-Administration under German occupation in 1941–1944
Government and administration
1901–1978
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Jakub Berman Jakub Berman
An architect of Stalinist power in Poland
Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR)
1901–1984
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C. L. R. Lionel Robert James C. L. R. James
The Trinidadian Trotskyist and Pan-Africanist intellectual who revived the Haitian Revolution for Marxist historiography
Scholarship and theory · Socialist Workers Party (United States)
1901–1989
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Hirohito 裕仁
The emperor who carried Japan through war and constitutional transformation
Monarchs and royalty · Japan state institutions
1901–1989
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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Free French armoured commander
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1947
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Masanobu Tsuji 辻政信
The Kwantung Army staff officer whose Border Defense Guide sparked the Nomonhan Incident
Military command · Japan state institutions
1902–1961
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Nâzım Hikmet Nâzım Hikmet
The Turkish revolutionary poet who survived a 28-year sentence with verse: giant of 20th-century letters who fused modernism and communism
Literature and arts
1902–1963
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Vincent Henri Badie Vincent Badie
A Radical Socialist who defended the Republic
Government and administration · France state institutions
1902–1989
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Julio Antonio Mella Julio Antonio Mella
The student founder of the Cuban Communist Party martyred at 25: a face of Latin American anti-imperialism
Political and party leadership
1903–1929
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Sándor Fürst Fürst Sándor
Member of the Hungarian Communist leadership hanged with Imre Sallai after a summary trial that used the Biatorbágy bombing as a pretext
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1903–1932
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Galeazzo Ciano Galeazzo Ciano
A Fascist diplomat who became a witness to the regime's internal collapse
Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions
1903–1944
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George Orwell George Orwell
The democratic socialist who came back wounded from the POUM militia and dissected the language of totalitarianism
Literature and arts
1903–1950
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Kim Chaek 김책
Korean revolutionary military leader who fought alongside Kim Il Sung in the Manchurian anti-Japanese guerrillas
Military command · Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949)
1903–1951
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Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth
The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1903–1979
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Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi official who led SS intelligence and police agencies in implementing the Holocaust.
Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions
1904–1942
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Kim Mu-chong 金武亭
The only Korean to complete the Long March, Eighth Route Army artillery commander who led the Korean Volunteer Army and the Yan'an faction
Military command · Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949)
1904–1952
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Gjergj Jaçim Kokoshi Gjergj Kokoshi
From antifascist resistance to postwar opposition
Education · Albania state institutions
1904–1960
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Edmund Veesenmayer Edmund Veesenmayer
SS diplomat who, as Reich plenipotentiary in Hungary in 1944, pressed the Hungarian government to deport its Jews to Auschwitz
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1904–1977
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Solly Zuckerman Solly Zuckerman
The scientific adviser who made bombing a field of operational research
Scholarship and theory
1904–1993
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Kim San 김산
Internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution, subject of Song of Arirang
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of China
1905–1938
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Zoltán Schönherz Schönherz Zoltán
Underground Communist leader who organised anti-war demonstrations through the Independence Committee and was executed in 1942
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1905–1942
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Aris son of Dimitrios Velouchiotis Άρης Βελουχιώτης
Organizer of a mass partisan war against occupation
Military command · Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS)
1905–1945
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Najati Sidqi نجاتي صدقي
Palestinian activist linking anti-colonialism and anti-fascism
Ideology and propaganda · Comintern
1905–1979
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Henri Frenay Henri Frenay
A Resistance organizer who moved from Vichy sympathies to opposition
Social movements and organizing
1905–1988
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Federica Montseny Federica Montseny
Spanish anarchist who served in the Republican government
Government and administration · Spanish Republic state institutions
1905–1994
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Ferenc Rózsa Rózsa Ferenc
Communist who was the first editor of the underground Szabad Nép and died in custody after his arrest in 1942
Ideology and propaganda · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1906–1942
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Rezső Kasztner Kasztner Rezső
Zionist lawyer who negotiated with Eichmann to send 1,684 Jews to Switzerland on what became known as the Kasztner train
Social movements and organizing
1906–1957
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Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann
SS officer who ran the deportation of Europe’s Jews to the death camps and in 1944 oversaw that of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1906–1962
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Juan Modesto Juan Guilloto León
A field commander of the defeated Republic
Military command · Spanish Republic state institutions
1906–1969
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Edmund Myers Edmund Myers
A British engineer officer drawn into Greek resistance politics
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1906–1997
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Arso Radivojev Jovanović Арсо Радивојев Јовановић
The staff officer who organized the Partisan war
Military command · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ)
1907–1948
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Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny
A Nazi commando leader magnified by propaganda
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1908–1975
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Henri Rol-Tanguy Henri Rol-Tanguy
Communist Resistance leader who directed the Paris uprising
Military command · France state institutions
1908–2002
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Stepan Bandera Степан Андрійович Бандера
Ukrainian nationalist politician and leader of the OUN-B.
Political and party leadership
1909–1959
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René Bousquet René Bousquet
Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier
Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions
1909–1993
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Viktors Arājs Viktors Arājs
Latvian former policeman whose Arajs Kommando, under the SS Security Service, murdered about half of Latvia’s Jews
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1910–1988
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Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish diplomat who sheltered Budapest Jews with protective passports and safe houses, then vanished in Soviet custody
Diplomacy and international organization
1912–?
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Jimmy Durrant James Thom Durrant
A wartime commander who confronted the limits of long-range air supply
Military command · South Africa state institutions
1913–1990
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Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie
The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1913–1991