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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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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan Анастас Иванович Микоян
The man who built the Soviet table, and the negotiator “from Ilyich to Ilyich”
Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union
1895–1978
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Boris Konstantinovich Souvarine Boris Souvarine
The only non-Bolshevik on all three leading Comintern bodies. And author of the first critical Stalin biography.
Scholarship and theory · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
1895–1984
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Dino Grandi Dino Grandi
A Fascist power broker who helped bring down Mussolini
Diplomacy and international organization · Italy state institutions
1895–1988
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Dolores Ibárruri Dolores Ibárruri
“¡No pasarán!”: the voice of anti-fascism that refused to let Franco's armies pass
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
1895–1989
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Semyon Grigoryevich Roshal Семён Григорьевич Рошаль
The 21-year-old commissar who brought Kronstadt sailors to the revolution
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1896–1917
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Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов
The ideology manager whose name marked Stalinist culture
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1896–1948
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Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald
The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup
Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia
1896–1953
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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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Joaquín Juliá Maurín Joaquín Maurín
A revolutionary who pursued workers' unity across communist divisions
Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)
1896–1973
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Rajani Palme Dutt Rajani Palme Dutt
CPGB founding member, chief theoretician for half a century, and pioneer of Marxist historiography on India
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1896–1974
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Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos
The PCF's number two for 37 years: a Stalinist who moved between parliament and the underground
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1896–1975
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Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе
Comintern architect of the Canton uprising who led the first party-apparatus challenge to Stalin's collectivization
Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern
1897–1935
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Gikalo Николай Фёдорович Гикало
Civil War hero who commanded the Grozny defence, then drove industrialization and collectivization as First Secretary of three republics
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1938
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Ferenc Szálasi Szálasi Ferenc
Arrow Cross leader installed by Germany as 'Leader of the Nation' in 1944
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1897–1946
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Tan Malaka Tan Malaka
Father of the Republic of Indonesia, the Marxist who fused communism with Islam
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)
1897–1949
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Traicho Kostov Трайчо Костов
Bulgaria's number two, who ran the repression and fell to a Stalinist purge
Political and party leadership · Bulgaria
1897–1949
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Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova Анна Михайловна Панкратова
Leading historian of the working class who drove destalinization in scholarship: first woman full academician in Soviet historical studies
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1897–1957
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Anthony Eden Anthony Eden
A British diplomat of war and decolonisation
Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions
1897–1977
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Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Erhard
The West German economic statesman who shaped currency reform and the social market economy
Economy, finance and planning · Germany state institutions
1897–1977
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Zhang Guotao 张国焘
Chair of the founding congress who split with Mao on the Long March and defected to the Nationalists
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of China
1897–1979
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Ye Jianying 叶剑英
From Whampoa instructor to marshal, the soldier who organised the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 and ended the Cultural Revolution
Military command · People’s Republic of China
1897–1986
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Charles Tillon Charles Tillon
A communist who carried working-class militancy into armed resistance
Social movements and organizing · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF)
1897–1993
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Akmal Ikramovich Ikramov Акмаль Икрамович Икрамов
First ethnic Uzbek to head the CP of Uzbekistan, who drove collectivization and cotton monoculture before the Great Purge destroyed him
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1898–1938
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Jacques Doriot Jacques Doriot
The Saint-Denis Communist who demanded the popular front first and ended a fascist
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1898–1945
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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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Vasile Luca Vasile Luca
Finance minister of the "Muscovite faction", purged on the pretext of the 1952 currency reform and dead in Aiud prison, a Székely Hungarian communist
Political and party leadership · Romania
1898–1963
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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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Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇
CCP chief theoretician and PRC Chairman (1959–68), designated successor to Mao who was purged as China's foremost 'capitalist roader'
Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China
1898–1969
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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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Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov Пётр Николаевич Поспелов
The historian who wrote Stalin's biography, then dismantled his myth
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1898–1979
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Ernő Gerő Gerő Ernő
Hungary's last Stalinist First Secretary; his three months in power ignited the revolution
Political and party leadership · Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP)
1898–1980
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Harry Haywood Harry Haywood
Architect of the Comintern Black Belt thesis: Southern Blacks are an oppressed nation with the right to self-determination
Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1898–1985
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Alexei Vladimirovich Snegov Алексей Владимирович Снегов
An Old Bolshevik survivor who pressed the Soviet leadership toward de-Stalinization
Political and party leadership · Soviet Union
1898–1989
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Luís Carlos Prestes Luís Carlos Prestes
The Knight of Hope: Brazilian revolutionary who marched 25,000 km
Political and party leadership · Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)
1898–1990
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Qu Qiubai 瞿秋白
Marxist literary critic who first sang The Internationale in Chinese, and party leader in 1927
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of China
1899–1935
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Jan Ernestovich Sten Ян Эрнестович Стэн
Marxist philosopher who went from Stalin's Hegel tutor to Right Opposition conspirator
Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1899–1937
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Andrija Hebrang Andrija Hebrang
A leader caught between revolutionary national politics and party centralism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ)
1899–1949
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Heinrich Rau Heinrich Rau
Communist who chaired the German Economic Commission, the forerunner of the GDR government, and led East German economic policy
Economy, finance and planning · East Germany
1899–1961
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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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Li Lisan 李立三
Labour organiser whose 1930 urban-insurrection “Li Lisan line” led the party and cost him his position
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of China
1899–1967
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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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Pak Hon-yong 박헌영
Architect of the Korean Communist Party's rebirth; leader of the Workers' Party of South Korea
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Korea
1900–1955
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Grigory Artemyevich Arutinov Григорий Артемьевич Арутинов
'Grigory the Builder': led Soviet Armenia for 16 years under Stalin, driving industrialization and a national cultural revival
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1900–1957
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Maurice Thorez Maurice Thorez
A miner's son who built the Popular Front and led the French Communist Party for 34 years
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1900–1964
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Choe Yong-gon 최용건
The Manchurian guerrilla who became the KPA's first commander and the DPRK's nominal head of state
Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
1900–1976
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Zhang Wentian 张闻天
A “28 Bolsheviks” returnee who became general secretary after Zunyi and sided with Peng Dehuai at Lushan in 1959
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of China
1900–1976
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Luigi Longo Luigi Longo
'Gallo': commander in Spain and the Resistance, PCI secretary-general who endured Cominform self-criticism and succeeded Togliatti
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI)
1900–1980
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Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov Андрей Андреевич Власов
Hero of the Battle of Moscow who defected to lead the Nazi-backed Russian Liberation Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1946
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Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský
KSČ General Secretary who organized the February 1948 coup and built Czechoslovakia's people's democracy as its operational architect
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
1901–1952