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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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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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Charles Huntziger Charles Huntziger
A general who embodied the military case for defeat and armistice
Military command · France state institutions
1880–1941
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Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев
The Soviet Union's greatest fortification scientist, who chose martyrdom at Mauthausen over collaboration with the Nazis
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1945
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Aimé Doumenc Joseph Édouard Aimé Doumenc
Logistics, armor and the 1939 Moscow mission
Military command · France state institutions
1880–1948
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Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky Николай Ильич Подвойский
The operational commander of October, sidelined by the revolution he led
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1948
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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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George C. Catlett Marshall George C. Marshall
The only American to head the Army, the State Department, and the Pentagon, organizer of Allied victory and architect of the Marshall Plan
Military command · United States state institutions
1880–1959
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Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur
UN commander who conceived the Inchon landing and overruled the unanimous opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Military command · United States state institutions
1880–1964
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Reginald Drax Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax
A naval reformer sent to negotiate without authority
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1880–1967
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Semyon Ivanovich Aralov Семён Иванович Аралов
Institutional founder of Soviet military intelligence
Military command · Soviet Union
1880–1969
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Waldemar Pabst Waldemar Pabst
Freikorps officer who ordered the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in January 1919 and joined the Kapp Putsch
Military command · Germany state institutions
1880–1970
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Enver Pasha İsmail Enver Paşa
War minister among the Three Pashas who took the Ottomans into the war and was a main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide
Military command · Turkey state institutions
1881–1922
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Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky Григорий Иванович Котовский
The Bessarabian 'Red Robin Hood' who rose from Tsarist outlaw to legendary Soviet Civil War commander
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1925
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Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev Сергей Сергеевич Каменев
Commander-in-Chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1936
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Gallipoli commander who led the national movement and founded the Republic of Turkey as its first president
Political and party leadership · Turkey state institutions
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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Henrik Werth Werth Henrik
Chief of the Hungarian General Staff who was the strongest advocate of alliance with Germany and of war on the Soviet Union
Military command · Hungary
1881–1952
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Maximilian von Weichs Maximilian von Weichs
German field marshal who commanded the Stalingrad offensive
Military command · Germany state institutions
1881–1954
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Otozō Yamada 山田乙三
The Imperial Army's final Kwantung Army commander
Military command · Japan state institutions
1881–1965
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Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов
Stalin’s marshal, sustained by loyalty more than command
Military command · Soviet Union
1881–1969
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Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov Борис Михайлович Шапошников
The only officer Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, author of The Brain of the Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1882–1945
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Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel
German general who headed the Wehrmacht High Command and was complicit in Nazi war crimes.
Military command · Germany state institutions
1882–1946
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Kâzım Karabekir Kâzım Karabekir
Eastern Front commander of the Turkish War of Independence who invaded Armenia in 1920 and imposed the Treaty of Alexandropol
Military command · Turkey state institutions
1882–1948
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Yoshijirō Umezu 梅津美治郎
The army chief caught between imperial command and surrender
Military command · Japan state institutions
1882–1949
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Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu
Romania's commander on the Eastern Front
Military command · Romania
1882–1950
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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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Hugh Dowding Hugh Dowding
Architect of integrated radar air defence
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1882–1970
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Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel Владимир Оскарович Каппель
The White movement's greatest 'soldier-general': conqueror of Kazan who vanished into the ice
Military command · Russian White movement
1883–1920
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Nikolai Kakurin Николай Какурин
Red Army commander who was chief of staff of the Tambov suppression and became a historian of the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1936
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin Николай Николаевич Кузьмин
The Baltic Fleet political commissar whose 'explosion' warning foreshadowed the Kronstadt revolt
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко
He arrested the Provisional Government in 1917; Stalin arrested him in 1937
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1938
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Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Александр Ильич Егоров
The Southern Front commander who broke Denikin: the last of the first five marshals whose name was erased
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1939
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Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz
Anti-Soviet partisan commander who moved from Estonia to Belarus, changing camps as he went
Military command · Russian Empire
1883–1940
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Bertram Ramsay Bertram Home Ramsay
The naval commander who organized the Dunkirk evacuation
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1883–1945
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Rudolf Lüters Rudolf Lüters
Wehrmacht general who directed anti-Partisan operations
Military command · Germany 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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Gusztáv Jány Jány Gusztáv
Commander of the Hungarian Second Army destroyed on the Don in January 1943
Military command · Hungary
1883–1947
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István Friedrich Friedrich István
Factory owner who was prime minister of Hungary for three months after the August 1919 coup against the Peidl government
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1883–1951
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Alexandros Papagos Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος
The Greek field marshal who staked the war on the Albanian front
Military command · Greece state institutions
1883–1955
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Alan Brooke Alan Francis Brooke
Britain's professional head of the army and Allied chief strategist
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1883–1963
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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Семён Михайлович Будённый
The Civil War's mounted legend: a marshal who survived into the age of mechanized war
Military command · Soviet Union
1883–1973
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Ali Aaltonen Ali Aaltonen
Labour journalist and former Russian army officer who became the first commander-in-chief of the Finnish Red Guards
Military command · Social Democratic Party of Finland
1884–1918
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Pyotr Yefimovich Shchetinkin Пётр Ефимович Щетинкин
Siberian partisan commander who led the partisan army of Yeniseysk Province and took custody of Ungern in Mongolia in 1921
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1927
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich Михаил Михайлович Лашевич
Bolshevik military leader of 1917 and the Civil War
Military command · Soviet Union
1884–1928
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Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六
The admiral who feared war with America yet designed Pearl Harbor
Military command · Japan state institutions
1884–1943
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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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Johan Laidoner Johan Laidoner
Commander-in-chief of Estonia's war of independence
Military command · Estonia state institutions
1884–1953
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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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Franz Halder Franz Halder
Chief of the German Army General Staff who planned Barbarossa and later forged the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht"
Military command · Germany 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