People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Pantelimon Erhan Pantelimon Erhan Bessarabian Socialist Revolutionary who headed the first government of the Moldavian Democratic Republic and put land reform first
- Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev Матвей Иванович Скобелев The Menshevik Labour Minister sent to calm the crowds during the April Crisis
- Ludovic-Oscar Frossard Ludovic-Oscar Frossard SFIO general secretary who led the Tours vote to join the Comintern, became the first PCF general secretary and left in 1923
- Ernst Reuter Ernst Reuter The social democrat who became the voice of divided Berlin
- Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin Питирим Александрович Сорокин SR leader imprisoned by both Tsar and Bolsheviks, who became founder of Harvard's sociology department
- 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
- Herbert Vere Evatt Herbert Vere Evatt Australia's Foreign Minister who led the small and medium powers' fight against the great-power veto at San Francisco
- Friedrich Ebert Jr. Friedrich Ebert junior A social democrat who moved from municipal politics into state power amid Germany's division
- Kurt Schumacher Kurt Schumacher SPD leader who survived ten years in Nazi camps and, after the war, refused the merger with the Communists
- Marceau Pivert Marceau Pivert The Socialist left's tribune who wrote 'Everything is possible', the Popular Front's left frontier
- Erich Gniffke Erich Gniffke SPD organiser in the Soviet zone who signed the merger with the KPD, then left the SED in 1948 and fled west
- Erich Ollenhauer Erich Ollenhauer Exiled SPD functionary who succeeded Schumacher as SPD leader and leader of the West German opposition
- Willy None Brandt Willy Brandt A social democrat who made reconciliation a politics of divided cities
- Pyotr Tokmakov Пётр Токмаков Peasant-born officer who commanded the United Partisan Army of Tambov and chaired the Union of Working Peasantry