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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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Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1882–1945
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Ion Antonescu Ion Antonescu
The Conducător who took Romania into the Axis war against the Soviet Union and ordered the killings in Transnistria, executed at Jilava in 1946
Government and administration · Romania
1882–1946
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Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
Lithuanian writer who led the “People’s Government” of 1940 and resigned after Molotov told him the Baltic states would join the USSR
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1882–1954
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Dušan Simović Душан Симовић
The soldier-premier caught between a coup and defeat
Military command · Yugoslavia
1882–1962
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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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Prosh Perchevich Proshian Прош Перчевич Прошьян
Left SR People's Commissar in the first Soviet coalition: 'the core of the party'
Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries
1883–1918
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Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev Фёдор Андреевич Сергеев
Founder and head of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, close friend of Stalin and Kirov
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1883–1921
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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
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Augustinas Voldemaras Augustinas Voldemaras
Lithuania's first prime minister, later leader of the far-right Iron Wolf
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1883–1942
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Pierre Laval Pierre Laval
A republican politician who became an architect of Vichy collaboration
Government and administration · France state institutions
1883–1945
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Döme Sztójay Sztójay Döme
Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations
Government and administration · Hungary
1883–1946
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Otto Nuschke Otto Nuschke
Kaiser’s successor at the head of the East German CDU, who brought it into line with the SED as deputy prime minister
Government and administration · East Germany
1883–1957
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Clement Attlee Clement Attlee
The laconic reformer who replaced Churchill mid-Potsdam and built Britain's postwar welfare state
Government and administration · United Kingdom state institutions
1883–1967
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Pan Halippa Pan Halippa
Journalist and politician who, as vice-president and later president of Sfatul Țării, led the movement for Bessarabia’s union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1883–1979
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Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț
Bessarabian politician who presided over Sfatul Țării and the Moldavian Democratic Republic and saw through its union with Romania
Legislature and state representation · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR)
1884–1940
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Anton Luckievič Антон Луцкевіч
Founder of the Hramada who, as prime minister of the Belarusian People’s Republic, sought its recognition at the Paris Peace Conference
Government and administration · Belarus state institutions
1884–1942
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Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš
The last democratic president, who tried to topple a government with resignations and instead handed it to Gottwald
Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia
1884–1948
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Hideki Tojo 東條英機
A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
Military command · Japan state institutions
1884–1948
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Petru Groza Petru Groza
The "red bourgeois", a landowning lawyer who never joined the party yet served as the communist regime's first prime minister and head of state
Government and administration · Romania
1884–1958
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Károly Bartha Bartha Károly
Defence minister who pressed for joining the invasion of Yugoslavia and the war on the Soviet Union, and harshened labour service
Government and administration · Hungary
1884–1964
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Édouard Daladier Édouard Daladier
The Radicals' 'Bull of Vaucluse', who helped build the Popular Front and dismantled it with his own hands
Government and administration · France state institutions
1884–1970
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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
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Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman
The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1884–1972
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İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü
Officer who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne and succeeded Atatürk as Turkey’s second president
Political and party leadership · Turkey state institutions
1884–1973
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Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов
Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–1918
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Noman Çelebicihan Номан Челебиджихан
First head of the Crimean People’s Republic, the first elected mufti of Crimea and the poet of the Crimean Tatar anthem
Government and administration
1885–1918
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Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyaev Виктор Николаевич Пепеляев
The Kadet politician who engineered Kolchak's dictatorship and stood with him to the end
Government and administration · Russian White movement
1885–1920
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Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев
The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis
Political and party leadership · Mensheviks (RSDLP)
1885–1938
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Alexandros Koryzis Αλέξανδρος Κορυζής
The Greek prime minister who accepted British aid under invasion
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1885–1941
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Pavel Dmitrievich Vasiliev Павел Дмитриевич Васильев
A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1885–?
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Alexander Fyodorovich Myasnikov Александр Фёдорович Мясников
Lenin's periphery-builder who brought Soviet power to Belarus and Armenia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1886–1925
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Gyula Gömbös Gömbös Gyula
Right-radical officer who organised the Szeged National Army and as prime minister in 1932–1936 steered Hungary towards Italy and Germany
Government and administration · Hungary
1886–1936
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Kálmán Darányi Darányi Kálmán
Gömbös’s successor as prime minister in 1936–1938, who announced the Győr programme and introduced the First Jewish Law
Government and administration · Hungary
1886–1939
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Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc
Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed
Government and administration · Hungary
1886–1967
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Zmicier Zhylunovich Зміцер Жылуновіч
Worker-poet known as Tsishka Hartny who headed the first Soviet government of Byelorussia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1887–1937
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Omer Nishani Omer Nishani
Albanian physician and politician, the people's republic's formal first head of state
Social movements and organizing
1887–1954
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Antanas Merkys Antanas Merkys
Last prime minister of independent Lithuania, who accepted the Soviet ultimatum of 1940, took the presidency and handed power to Paleckis
Government and administration · Lithuania state institutions
1887–1955
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Miklós Kállay Kállay Miklós
Wartime prime minister who refused German deportation demands and sought a secret armistice with the Western Allies
Government and administration · Hungary
1887–1967
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Veli Ibraimov Вели Ибраимов
Crimean Tatar national communist who pressed Crimean Tatar interests as head of the Crimean ASSR and was executed
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1888–1928
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Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser
Christian Democrat who led the CDU in the Soviet zone until SMAD removed him, then became West Germany’s minister for all-German affairs
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1888–1961
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Georgios Papandreou Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου
A liberal statesman at the threshold of liberation and civil war
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1888–1968
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Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter
The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1889–1953
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Kim Tu-bong 김두봉
Independence activist, linguist, and Yan'an faction leader who served as the first head of state of the DPRK
Political and party leadership · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
1889–1958?
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Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti
Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1889–1956
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Zoltán Tildy Tildy Zoltán
The Reformed pastor-president who declared neutrality before Soviet tanks
Political and party leadership · Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP)
1889–1961
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Jawaharlal Nehru जवाहरलाल नेहरू
India's first prime minister and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement
Government and administration · India state institutions
1889–1964
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Roger Salengro Roger Salengro
The Popular Front's interior minister, hounded to death by the far-right press
Government and administration · France state institutions
1890–1936
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Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov Даниил Егорович Сулимов
Worker-Bolshevik premier of the Russian Republic destroyed by the state he helped industrialize
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1890–1937
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Jüri Uluots Jüri Uluots
Law professor and Estonia’s last constitutional prime minister who, acting as president, formed the Tief government in 1944
Government and administration · Estonia state institutions
1890–1945
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Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc
Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
Military command · Hungary
1890–1946