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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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Léon Blum Léon Blum
France's first Socialist prime minister, who left behind paid holidays and the 40-hour week
Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
1872–1950
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Augusts Kirhenšteins Augusts Kirhenšteins
Microbiologist who headed the puppet government chosen by the Soviet embassy in 1940 and requested Latvia’s incorporation into the USSR
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1872–1963
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Yi Dong-hwi 이동휘
Pioneer of Korean communism who fused the Bolshevik revolution with national liberation against Japanese rule
Political and party leadership
1873–1935
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Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio
A president shaped by agrarian reform and wartime compromise
Agriculture and land policy · Finland state institutions
1873–1940
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Christian Georgievich Rakovsky Христиан Георгиевич Раковский
From Balkan revolutionary to head of Soviet Ukraine: the diplomat who became an opposition theorist
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine
1873–1941
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Gyula Peidl Peidl Gyula
Printer and Social Democratic leader who headed the six-day “trade-union government” after the fall of the Soviet Republic
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1873–1943
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Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi Павло Петрович Скоропадський
The last hetman of Ukraine, installed under German occupation in 1918
Government and administration · Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)
1873–1945
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Ivanoe Bonomi Ivanoe Bonomi
A reformist politician who organized compromises between fascism's fall and the monarchy
Government and administration · Italy state institutions
1873–1951
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Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич
He built the Soviet government apparatus and studied the religious dissenters of the empire
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1873–1955
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Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi
Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1873–1963
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Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich Пётр Гермогенович Смидович
Iskra agent across three revolutions, KOMZET chairman who shaped Soviet nationality policy and the Birobidzhan Jewish experiment
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1874–1935
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Antanas Smetona Antanas Smetona
Lithuania's first president who led the declaration of independence, later leader of the 1926 coup
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1874–1944
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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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Avgustyn Voloshyn Августин Волошин
Greek Catholic priest who became president of Carpatho-Ukraine when it declared independence in March 1939
Government and administration · Czechoslovakia
1874–1945
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István Bethlen Bethlen István
Transylvanian aristocrat who, as prime minister in 1921–1931, consolidated the Horthy regime with a restricted franchise and a League loan
Government and administration · Hungary
1874–1946
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Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts
Head of Estonia's government in the independence war, later dictator of the 'era of silence'
Government and administration · Estonia state institutions
1874–1956
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Herbert C. Hoover Herbert Hoover
Master of famine relief and the 31st president, broken by the Great Depression
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1874–1964
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Winston Churchill
Britain's wartime prime minister who divided Europe with Stalin on a half-sheet of paper
Government and administration · United Kingdom state institutions
1874–1965
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Jenő Landler Landler Jenő
Labour lawyer turned Communist who was interior commissar and a Red Army commander in the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Government and administration · Hungary
1875–1928
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Oszkár Jászi Jászi Oszkár
Social scientist who led the Radical Party and served as minister of nationalities in the Károlyi government
Government and administration · Hungary
1875–1957
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Rhee Syngman 이승만
First president of South Korea who demanded unification by force and refused to sign the armistice
Government and administration · South Korea state institutions
1875–1965
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Hermann Müller Hermann Müller
A Social Democratic politician of the Weimar Republic who served twice as chancellor.
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1876–1931
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Wilhelm Cuno Wilhelm Cuno
Non-party chancellor who answered the Ruhr occupation with passive resistance and fell amid hyperinflation
Political and party leadership · Germany state institutions
1876–1933
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Konrad Adenauer Konrad Adenauer
The chancellor who made provisional statehood durable
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1876–1967
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Polikarp Gurgenovich Mdivani Поликарп Гургенович Мдивани
The Georgian communist who led Lenin's last fight against Stalin's centralization
Government and administration · Georgia state institutions
1877–1937
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Kārlis Ulmanis Kārlis Ulmanis
Latvia's prime minister in the war of independence, later dictator after the 1934 coup
Government and administration · Latvia state institutions
1877–1942
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov Михаил Александрович Романов
The last Romanov who could have been tsar, and who deferred the crown to a Constituent Assembly
Military command · Russian Empire
1878–1918
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Stepan Georgiyevich Shaumyan Степан Георгиевич Шаумян
The 'Caucasian Lenin', Marxist theorist of the national question and leader of the Baku Commune
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1878–1918
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Nikolai Dmitriyevich Avksentiev Николай Дмитриевич Авксентьев
SR Party founder who chaired the last unified anti-Bolshevik government, overthrown by Kolchak
Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1878–1943
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Andreas Hermes Andreas Hermes
Weimar finance minister who founded the CDU in the Soviet zone in 1945 and was deposed for opposing the land reform
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1878–1964
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Paul Reynaud Paul Reynaud
A republican statesman who urged resistance in the face of defeat
Government and administration · France state institutions
1878–1966
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Evgenia Bogdanovna Bosch Евгения Богдановна Бош
First woman to lead a Soviet government, between revolution and terminal illness
Government and administration · Soviet Ukraine
1879–1925
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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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Pál Teleki Teleki Pál
Geographer of the “Red map” who was twice prime minister and killed himself in 1941 as German troops crossed Hungary
Government and administration · Hungary
1879–1941
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Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander
Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1879–1943
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Sándor Garbai Garbai Sándor
Bricklayer turned Social Democrat who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1879–1947
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Mirza Kuchik Khan میرزا كوچک خان
Iranian revolutionary who led the Jungle movement of Gilan and proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Gilan in 1920
Political and party leadership
1880–1921
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Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen
Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918
Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP)
1880–1937
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Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña
The last president of the Republic who embodied the republican cause but crossed into France and resigned when Catalonia fell
Government and administration · Spanish Republic
1880–1940
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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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Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко
Ukrainian Social Democratic writer who led the Rada's General Secretariat and the Directory
Government and administration · Ukrainian People's Republic
1880–1951
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István Haller Haller István
Christian Socialist politician who, as minister of religion and education, prepared and tabled the numerus clausus bill of 1920
Government and administration · Hungary
1880–1964
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Alexei Ivanovich Rykov Алексей Иванович Рыков
Lenin’s successor as premier, destroyed as the Right Opposition
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1881–1938
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Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling
Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1881–1938
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Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski
A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return
Military command · Poland
1881–1943
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Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer Keresztes-Fischer Ferenc
Conservative ally of Bethlen who as interior minister twice used the police to hold down radical movements of left and right
Government and administration · Hungary
1881–1948
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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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Károly Peyer Peyer Károly
Hungarian Social Democratic and trade-union leader who won legal status for his party in the Bethlen–Peyer Pact of 1921
Legislature and state representation · Hungary
1881–1956
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Ivan Ribar Ivan Ribar
A parliamentarian who carried constitutional politics into the Liberation Movement
Legislature and state representation · Yugoslavia
1881–1968
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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky Александр Фёдорович Керенский
The orator ground away between revolution and counter-revolution
Government and administration · Russian Empire
1881–1970