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Education

17 people

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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
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская She built the Soviet school and library system from the shadow of her husband Education · Soviet Union 1869–1939
Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin Владимир Петрович Потёмкин The diplomat who pronounced Poland dead, then became education commissar Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union 1874–1946
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский Russian revolutionary, first People's Commissar of Enlightenment, and literary critic Education · Soviet Union 1875–1933
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
Gusztáv Jány Jány Gusztáv Commander of the Hungarian Second Army destroyed on the Don in January 1943 Military command · Hungary 1883–1947
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов From October Revolution Politburo member to the Enlightenment Commissar who led the fight against illiteracy Education · Soviet Union 1884–1938
Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first Government and administration · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1884–1971
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 1887–1946
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko Антон Семёнович Макаренко Educator who raised street children through labour and self-rule: one of UNESCO's four great 20th-c. pedagogues Education · Soviet Union 1888–1939
Pyotr Akimovich Dibrova Пётр Акимович Диброва Soviet commandant of Berlin who declared a state of emergency in East Berlin on 17 June 1953 Military command · Soviet Union 1901–1971
Gjergj Jaçim Kokoshi Gjergj Kokoshi From antifascist resistance to postwar opposition Education · Albania 1904–1960
Vyacheslav Petrovich Yelyutin Вячеслав Петрович Елютин Longest-serving Soviet minister, shaped higher education for 31 years Education · Soviet Union 1907–1993
Mikhail Alekseyevich Prokofyev Михаил Алексеевич Прокофьев The scientist-minister who led Soviet education for 18 years Education · Soviet Union 1910–1999
Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov Юрий Андреевич Жданов Stalin's son-in-law who criticized Lysenko, recanted, then built Rostov University over 31 years as rector Education · Soviet Union 1919–2006
Wolfgang Leonhard Wolfgang Leonhard Youngest member of the Ulbricht Group who fled to Yugoslavia in 1949 and became a leading Western scholar of Soviet communism Ideology and propaganda · Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1921–2014
Conrado Benítez García Conrado Benítez García Cuban volunteer teacher, symbol and first martyr of the 1961 literacy campaign Education