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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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Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins
A New Deal administrator turned wartime diplomatic envoy
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1890–1946
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Johannes Vares Johannes Vares
Poet and doctor whom Zhdanov forced on Estonia as puppet prime minister in June 1940, and who led the petition to join the Soviet Union
Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union
1890–1946
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László Bárdossy Bárdossy László
Wartime prime minister who declared war on the Soviet Union over the Kassa bombing and approved the deportation of Jews
Government and administration · Hungary
1890–1946
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George II of Greece Γεώργιος Βʹ
Patron of the restored monarchy and Metaxas dictatorship
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1890–1947
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Béla Miklós Miklós Béla
Commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Soviets in October 1944 and headed the provisional government in Debrecen
Government and administration · Hungary
1890–1948
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Géza Lakatos Lakatos Géza
General who as prime minister in August–October 1944 halted the Jewish deportations and prepared an armistice until the Arrow Cross coup
Government and administration · Hungary
1890–1967
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Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди
Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
Military command · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1890–1970
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle
A statesman who declared that France would continue the war amid defeat
Government and administration · France state institutions
1890–1970
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Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar Влас Яковлевич Чубарь
The economic administrator who led Ukraine's government for 11 years, caught between Stalin's demands and the famine
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1891–1939
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Fyodor Kolesov Фёдор Колесов
Bolshevik chairman of the Turkestan Sovnarkom in 1917–1918 who crushed the Kokand Autonomy and attacked Bukhara
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1891–1940
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Fumimaro Konoe 近衞文麿
An aristocratic statesman whose diplomacy widened Japan’s imperial war
Government and administration · Japan state institutions
1891–1945
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Béla Imrédy Imrédy Béla
Prime minister who swung Hungary towards Germany and drafted the Second Jewish Law, then fell over his own Jewish ancestry
Government and administration · Hungary
1891–1946
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Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger
Pro-Soviet Social Democrat and first post-liberation premier who sided with the Communists in 1948 and merged his party into theirs
Government and administration · Czechoslovakia
1891–1976
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Engelbert Dollfuss Engelbert Dollfuß
Austrian chancellor who shut down parliament, built the Fatherland Front dictatorship and was assassinated in a Nazi coup in 1934
Government and administration · Austria state institutions
1892–1934
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Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov Николай Петрович Горбунов
Architect of Soviet science administration, from Lenin's personal secretary to Academy permanent secretary
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1892–1938
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Ivan Šubašić Ivan Šubašić
A conciliator between the monarchy and the national liberation movement
Government and administration · Yugoslavia
1892–1955
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Juan Negrín Juan Negrín
The physiologist trained in Leipzig who sent the Republic's gold to Moscow and chose to fight to the end as its last prime minister
Government and administration · Spanish Republic
1892–1956
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Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba Нестор Аполлонович Лакоба
Stalin's closest friend turned Beria's first victim: the red prince of Abkhazia
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1893–1936
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Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German Nazi ideologue from Reval who served as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories in 1941–1945
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1893–1946
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Soong Ching-ling 宋庆龄
Sun Yat-sen’s widow who stayed with the Kuomintang left and became a vice-chair of the People’s Republic
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of China
1893–1981
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Nikolai Matveyevich Goloded Николай Матвеевич Голодед
The decade-long head of Byelorussia's government who signed the Academy purge, then stood in the same dock
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1894–1937
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Turar Ryskulovich Ryskulov Турар Рыскулович Рыскулов
The Kazakh Bolshevik strategist who argued for a unified Turkestan against Stalin's national delimitation
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1894–1938
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Otto Grotewohl Otto Grotewohl
The Social Democrat who led a divided state into being
Government and administration · East Germany
1894–1964
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Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko Демьян Сергеевич Коротченко
Khrushchev's loyal executor: a peasant-born apparatchik who twice led Soviet Ukraine's government
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1894–1969
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László Endre Endre László
Interior Ministry state secretary who in 1944 ran the ghettoisation and deportation of Hungary’s Jews with László Baky
Government and administration · Hungary
1895–1946
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Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov Иван Сергеевич Хохлов
The weaver who became wartime premier of the Russian republic
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1895–1973
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin Николай Александрович Булганин
The uniformed premier pushed aside by Khrushchev
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1895–1975
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John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy
A pragmatic architect of the postwar U.S. international order
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1895–1989
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Faizulla Gubaidullayevich Khodzhayev Файзулла Губайдуллаевич Ходжаев
Son of a Bukharan merchant who rose from the Jadid reform movement to become the first head of government of Soviet Uzbekistan
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1896–1938
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Andor Jaross Jaross Andor
Hungarian minority leader in Czechoslovakia who, as interior minister in Sztójay’s cabinet in 1944, organised the deportation of Jews
Government and administration · Hungary
1896–1946
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Imre Nagy Nagy Imre
Premier for thirteen days
Government and administration · Hungary
1896–1958
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Hinrich Lohse Hinrich Lohse
Nazi Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein who, as Reichskommissar for Ostland in 1941–1944, ordered the ghettoisation and expropriation of Jews
Government and administration · Germany state institutions
1896–1964
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Serafima Alexandrovna Ryzhova Серафима Александровна Рыжова
Yezhov’s longtime secretary, source of the first deposition against him
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1898–1940
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László Baky Baky László
Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre
Government and administration · Hungary
1898–1946
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József Révai Révai József
Overseer of culture in the Rákosi era
Ideology and propaganda · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP)
1898–1959
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István Dobi Dobi István
Smallholder turned titular head of state
Legislature and state representation · Hungary
1898–1968
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Zhou Enlai 周恩来
The PRC's first premier and an architect of its foreign policy
Government and administration · People’s Republic of China
1898–1976
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Jean Pierre Moulin Jean Moulin
The republican who bound a divided Resistance together
Social movements and organizing
1899–1943
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Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki
A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state
Political and party leadership · Poland
1899–1964
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Fritz Selbmann Fritz Selbmann
East German heavy-industry minister who faced the striking workers outside the House of Ministries on 16 June 1953
Industry and production · East Germany
1899–1975
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Georges Bidault Georges Bidault
From Resistance chief to architect of the Marshall Plan response, the foreign minister who told Molotov that Soviet actions divided Europe
Government and administration · France state institutions
1899–1983
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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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Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Two-time presidential nominee who pressed the Soviet Union over its missiles in Cuba at the UN Security Council
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1900–1965
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Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen
The long-serving president who made neutrality a national strategy
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1900–1986
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Konstantin Dmitriyevich Pamfilov Константин Дмитриевич Памфилов
Wartime RSFSR acting premier who oversaw civilian evacuation amid the Moscow panic
Government and administration · Soviet Union
1901–1943
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Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm
Politician who became State of Vietnam premier in 1954, ousted Bảo Đại and was South Vietnam’s first president until killed in 1963
Government and administration · Vietnam
1901–1963
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Fulgencio Batista Fulgencio Batista
A Cuban ruler who shifted between electoral legitimacy and military power
Government and administration · Cuba
1901–1973
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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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Souvanna Phouma ສຸວັນນະພູມາ
Neutralist leader and the last royal prime minister of Laos
Government and administration · Laos
1901–1984
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Vincent Henri Badie Vincent Badie
A Radical Socialist who defended the Republic
Government and administration · France state institutions
1902–1989