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People

People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 11 Government and administration 3 Legislature and state representation 1 Military command 16 Diplomacy and international organization 5 Economy, finance and planning 2 Industry and production 1 Social movements and organizing 3 Scholarship and theory 28 Science and technology 1 Literature and arts 2

Affiliation

Most people

Any United Kingdom state institutionsstate 24 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 8 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 5 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 5 Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

All 5 affiliations

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 24 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 8 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 5 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 5

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 4 Left critics of Bolshevism 1 Non-Bolshevik socialists 9 Marxism and communism 3 Early socialism 1 Liberalism and republicanism 4 Conservatism and Christian democracy 4

Citizenship

Any United Kingdom 60 United States 2

Background(set)

Any Russia 1139 Germany 136 United States 128 France 125 Ukraine 120 Poland 96 Hungary 86 China 72 United Kingdom 62 Belarus 56 Latvia 43 Georgia 42 Armenia 35 Lithuania 30 Estonia 28 Finland 27 Czechia 25 Japan 25 Spain 21 Azerbaijan 19 Italy 19 Romania 15 Vietnam 15 Czechoslovakia 13 Moldova 13 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 12 Greece 11 Angola 10 Bulgaria 10 Korea 10 Serbia 10 Uzbekistan 10 Cambodia 9 Cuba 9 Albania 8 Austria 8 Yemen 8 Congo - Brazzaville 7 Croatia 7 Kazakhstan 7 Mongolia 7 Turkey 7 Ethiopia 6 Kyrgyzstan 6 Slovakia 6 Afghanistan 5 India 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 South Africa 5 Benin 4 Ireland 4 Somalia 4 Tajikistan 4 Turkmenistan 4 Belgium 3 Chile 3 Indonesia 3 Mozambique 3 Netherlands 3 Switzerland 3 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Brazil 2 East Germany 2 Martinique 2 Montenegro 2 Slovenia 2 Argentina 1 Australia 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Burkina Faso 1 Canada 1 DR Congo 1 Egypt 1 El Salvador 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guinea-Bissau 1 Guyana 1 Iran 1 Israel 1 Myanmar 1 New Zealand 1 Nicaragua 1 Palestine 1 Peru 1 Portugal 1 South Korea 1 Sweden 1 Tanzania 1

Era

Any

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 2

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 2 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 26 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 7 Scholars of this history1892–현재 25

Background: United Kingdom

62 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Richard Howe Richard Howe British admiral who won the battle of 1 June 1794 Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1726–1799
Horatio Nelson Horatio Nelson Royal Navy admiral who destroyed the French fleet at the Nile Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1758–1805
Robert Owen Robert Owen Social reformer who emphasized education and cooperation Scholarship and theory 1771–1858
Keir Hardie Keir Hardie Former miner who founded the British Labour Party and opposed the First World War to the end, urging an anti-war general strike Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1856–1915
George Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon Conservative viceroy of India and foreign secretary who gave his name to the Curzon Line and led the Allies at Lausanne Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1859–1925
Arthur Henderson Arthur Henderson British Labour organizer and politician who led the international disarmament effort. Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1863–1935
David Lloyd George David Lloyd George Liberal prime minister who led Britain in the later war and argued for moderation towards Germany at the peace conference Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions 1863–1945
Reginald Dyer Reginald Dyer British Indian Army officer who ordered troops to fire on an unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in 1919 Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1864–1927
Lionel Dunsterville Lionel Charles Dunsterville British general who led Dunsterforce across Persia to defend Baku in 1918 Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1865–1946
Ramsay MacDonald Ramsay MacDonald Politician who gave up the Labour chairmanship in 1914 over war credits and later became Britain’s first Labour prime minister Political and party leadership · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1866–1937
Neville Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain The appeasement architect whose bid to avoid war helped open the way to it Political and party leadership · Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1869–1940
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Winston Churchill Britain's wartime prime minister who divided Europe with Stalin on a half-sheet of paper Government and administration · United Kingdom state institutions 1874–1965
Reginald Drax Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax A naval reformer sent to negotiate without authority Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1880–1967
Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin A pragmatic statesman who carried trade-union power into postwar diplomacy Social movements and organizing · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1881–1951
Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst Left communist who broke from her mother's WSPU to stand with East End working women, buried among Ethiopian patriots Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1882–1960
Hugh Dowding Hugh Dowding Architect of integrated radar air defence Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1882–1970
Bertram Ramsay Bertram Home Ramsay The naval commander who organized the Dunkirk evacuation Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1945
John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes British economist who left the Treasury in protest at the peace treaty and warned of the damage reparations would do Scholarship and theory · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1946
Alan Brooke Alan Francis Brooke Britain's professional head of the army and Allied chief strategist Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1883–1963
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
John Gort John Vereker The field marshal who chose withdrawal at Dunkirk Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1886–1946
Frederick Lindemann Frederick Lindemann The physicist who pushed wartime science into grand strategy Science and technology 1886–1957
Bernard Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery Commander of the Allied ground forces in Normandy Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1887–1976
Harry Pollitt Harry Pollitt Stalin's personally approved CPGB General Secretary who led the party for 25 years Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1890–1960
Trafford Leigh-Mallory Trafford Leigh-Mallory An air commander who made army cooperation central to Allied air power Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1892–1944
E. H. Carr E. H. Carr Author of the 14-volume History of Soviet Russia; diagnosed a "latent incompatibility" between NEP markets and planning Scholarship and theory 1892–1982
Arthur Harris Arthur Travers Harris The air commander who made strategic bombing central to total war Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1892–1984
Ronald Scobie Ronald MacKenzie Scobie The British general who commanded the Battle of Athens Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1893–1969
William Sholto Douglas William Sholto Douglas The RAF commander who turned Fighter Command from defence toward offence Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1893–1969
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 Political and party leadership · Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1894–1965
Anthony Eden Anthony Eden A British diplomat of war and decolonisation Political and party leadership · United Kingdom state institutions 1897–1977
James Martin Stagg James Martin Stagg The meteorologist whose forecast shaped an invasion Scholarship and theory 1900–1975
George Orwell George Orwell The democratic socialist who came back wounded from the POUM militia and dissected the language of totalitarianism Literature and arts 1903–1950
Edmund Myers Edmund Myers A British engineer officer drawn into Greek resistance politics Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1906–1997
Burnett Bolloten Burnett Bolloten A painstaking archival historian of the Spanish Civil War Scholarship and theory 1909–1987
Thomas Brimelow Thomas Brimelow A practical architect of nuclear diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1915–1995
Christopher Montague Woodhouse Christopher Montague Woodhouse A Greece expert at the boundary of resistance and empire Military command · United Kingdom state institutions 1917–2001
Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest A Cold War historian who dissected the Stalin era Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1917–2015
Robert W. Davies Robert W. Davies The British economic historian who built the seven-volume chronicle of Soviet industrialisation Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1925–2021
Peter Fryer Peter Fryer A communist journalist who chose the scene over the party line Literature and arts · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1927–2006
Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick MacFarquhar Harvard sinologist whose Origins of the Cultural Revolution trilogy and Mao’s Last Revolution dissected China’s elite politics Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1930–2019
Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas The historian who made the Spanish Civil War a global narrative Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom) 1931–2017
Rodric Quentin Braithwaite Rodric Braithwaite From ambassador to Moscow during perestroika to author of Afgantsy, the British diplomat who knew Russia from the inside Diplomacy and international organization · United Kingdom state institutions 1932–
Alan S. Milward Alan S. Milward The British economic historian whose archival work recast postwar European recovery and integration Scholarship and theory 1935–2010
Archie Brown Archie Brown The British political scientist who argued Gorbachev's individual leadership was the decisive factor in transforming the Soviet system Scholarship and theory 1938–
Sebastian Balfour Sebastian Balfour British historian whose 'Castro' argued US hostility pushed Cuba toward socialism Scholarship and theory 1941–
Richard Overy Richard Overy A historian who connects war’s military outcomes to its psychological meaning Scholarship and theory 1947–
Robert Service Robert Service A contentious biographer of Soviet history Scholarship and theory 1947–
Stephen G. Wheatcroft Stephen G. Wheatcroft Australian economic historian who reconstructed Soviet famine and repression statistics from the archives Scholarship and theory 1947–
Mark Harrison Mark Harrison the British economic historian whose three-position taxonomy of NEP's failure shaped the historiographical debate Scholarship and theory 1949–

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