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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
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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Charles François Dumouriez Charles-François du Périer Dumouriez
French Revolutionary general and statesman who defected to Austria in 1793
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1739–1823
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Georges Clemenceau Georges Clemenceau
Radical French prime minister at the end of the First World War who pressed harsh terms on Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference
Political and party leadership · France state institutions
1841–1929
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Albert Apponyi Apponyi Albert
Aristocratic statesman who led Hungary’s delegation to the Paris peace talks in 1920 and pleaded for revising Trianon at the League
Diplomacy and international organization · Hungary
1846–1933
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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson
US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1856–1924
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George Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon
Conservative viceroy of India and foreign secretary who gave his name to the Curzon Line and led the Allies at Lausanne
Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions
1859–1925
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Italian prime minister who led the country to victory after Caporetto but failed to win its territorial claims at the peace conference
Political and party leadership · Italy state institutions
1860–1952
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David Lloyd George David Lloyd George
Liberal prime minister who led Britain in the later war and argued for moderation towards Germany at the peace conference
Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions
1863–1945
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Jan Smuts Jan Christian Smuts
Soldier-statesman who was twice prime minister of the Union of South Africa and went to Budapest as the Entente’s envoy in April 1919
Political and party leadership · South Africa state institutions
1870–1950
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Karl Renner Karl Renner
Austrian Social Democratic leader who signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain and founded the Second Republic in 1945
Political and party leadership · Austria state institutions
1870–1950
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Juho Kusti Paasikivi Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Finnish realist who faced Stalin at the 1939 Moscow negotiations and later forged the Paasikivi doctrine of Cold War neutrality
Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions
1870–1956
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Vatslav Vatslavovich Vorovsky Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский
The first Soviet diplomat, a bridge between revolution, letters, and diplomacy, felled by a bullet in Lausanne
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1871–1923
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Gyula Károlyi Károlyi Gyula
Conservative aristocrat who set up the counter-revolutionary government in Szeged in 1919 and was prime minister of Hungary in 1931–1932
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1871–1947
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Fyodor Aronovich Rothstein Фёдор Аронович Ротштейн
Bolshevik historian who became Soviet Russia's first ambassador to Persia after thirty years of exile in Britain
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1871–1953
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Cordell Hull Cordell Hull
An American diplomat who pressed for free trade and international institutions
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1871–1955
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Camille Huysmans Camille Huysmans
Secretary of the Second International from 1905 to 1922 who kept its Bureau alive in the war and later became Belgian prime minister
Diplomacy and international organization
1871–1968
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Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin Георгий Васильевич Чичерин
The first foreign commissar who translated the revolution into diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1936
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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai Александра Михайловна Коллонтай
The first woman cabinet minister, who made women's liberation the revolution's business
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1872–1952
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Alexander Khatisian Ալեքսանդր Խատիսեան
Dashnak foreign minister and prime minister of the First Republic of Armenia who signed the treaties of Batum and Alexandropol
Diplomacy and international organization
1874–1945
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Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин
The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1874–1946
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Mihály Károlyi Károlyi Mihály
Liberal aristocrat who came to power in the Aster Revolution and was president of the First Hungarian Republic
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1875–1955
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Fernand Vix Fernand Vix
French officer who headed the Entente military mission in Budapest and delivered the Vix note in March 1919
Military command · France state institutions
1876–1941
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Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov Максим Максимович Литвинов
The diplomat of collective security, removed in 1939
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1876–1951
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Ion Pelivan Ion Pelivan
Veteran of the Bessarabian national movement who, as foreign minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, championed union with Romania
Diplomacy and international organization
1876–1954
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Vasil Petrov Kolarov Васил Петров Коларов
Co-founder of Bulgarian communism, from the Comintern to head of state
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1877–1950
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Alfred Rosmer Alfred Rosmer
From syndicalism through the Comintern to the Fourth International: a French internationalist across a century of revolution
Social movements and organizing · General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France)
1877–1964
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Gustav Stresemann Gustav Stresemann
Weimar chancellor who ended passive resistance in 1923 and, as foreign minister, concluded the Locarno treaties
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1878–1929
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Kōki Hirota 廣田弘毅
A statesman caught between diplomacy and responsibility under military pressure
Diplomacy and international organization · Japan state institutions
1878–1948
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Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky Соломон Абрамович Лозовский
The Bolshevik who led the Profintern and was shot with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1878–1952
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Jan Sierada Ян Серада
Veterinarian who chaired the First All-Belarusian Congress and, as chairman of the Rada, presided over the declaration of independence
Legislature and state representation · Belarus state institutions
1879–1943 이후
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Piotra Krečeŭski Пётра Крэчэўскі
Chairman of the Rada of the Belarusian People’s Republic from 1919 until his death, leading it in exile from Prague
Legislature and state representation · Belarus state institutions
1879–1928
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Jan Dąbski Jan Dąbski
A peasant-movement diplomat who shaped the Riga peace
Diplomacy and international organization · Poland
1880–1931
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Yosuke Matsuoka 松岡洋右
A diplomat who drove imperial Japan's continental diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Japan state institutions
1880–1946
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Vilmos Böhm Böhm Vilmos
Social Democratic leader who was defence commissar and Red Army commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Military command · Hungary
1880–1949
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Walter Lyman Brown Walter Lyman Brown
The relief administrator who turned aid into diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · American Relief Administration (ARA)
1880–1955
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Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner Серафима Ильинична Гопнер
First woman to lead the Ukrainian Bolshevik party; delegate to all seven Comintern congresses
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1880–1966
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Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი
Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Diplomacy and international organization · Georgia state institutions
1881–1954
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Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen
From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1881–1964
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Stanislav Stanislavovich Pestkovsky Станислав Станиславович Пестковский
The Polish nobleman turned internationalist who became the first Soviet leader of Kazakhstan
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1937
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Osip Aronovich Piatnitsky Осип Аронович Пятницкий
From Comintern underground courier to its organizational backbone, then devoured by the machine he built
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1938
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Georgi Mihaylov Dimitrov Георги Михайлов Димитров
From Leipzig defendant to Comintern General Secretary
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1882–1949
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Shigenori Tōgō 東郷茂徳
A diplomat who sought peace after failing to prevent war
Diplomacy and international organization · Japan state institutions
1882–1950
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Yakov Zakharovich Surits Яков Захарович Суриц
From Menshevik to the Soviet Union's longest-serving ambassador: a revolutionary diplomat who crossed six postings from Kabul to Rio
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1952
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Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky Александр Антонович Трояновский
From tsarist artillery officer to Stalin's first ambassador to Washington: a Russian nobleman who crossed revolution and diplomacy
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1882–1955
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Naotake Satō 佐藤尚武
The last Japanese ambassador to the USSR, who received Molotov's declaration of war
Diplomacy and international organization · Japan state institutions
1882–1971
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James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise
Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions
1882–1972
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William Seeds William Seeds
A British diplomat whose judgments narrowed as the Moscow negotiations closed in
Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions
1882–1973
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Adolph Abramovich Joffe Адольф Абрамович Иоффе
Chair of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk and Trotsky's longest-standing comrade
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1883–1927
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев
He opposed October, vouched for Stalin, and was shot by him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev Лев Борисович Каменев
The party’s licensed voice of caution: his warnings outlived him
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1883–1936
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Vaclau Lastouski Вацлаў Ластоўскі
Historian who headed the government of the Belarusian People’s Republic in exile, moved to Soviet Byelorussia and was executed
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1883–1938