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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position(set)
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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Louis Joseph de Bourbon Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé
Bourbon prince who commanded the émigré Army of Condé
Military command · Army of Condé
1736–1818
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Louis XVI Louis XVI
French king deposed and tried during the Revolution
Monarchs and royalty · French monarchy
1754–1793
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Charles X Charles Philippe, comte d’Artois
Count of Artois who led émigré royalism during the Revolution
Monarchs and royalty · French monarchy
1757–1836
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Horatio Nelson Horatio Nelson
Royal Navy admiral who destroyed the French fleet at the Nile
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1758–1805
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Jacques Cathelineau Jacques Cathelineau
First generalissimo of the Vendéan insurgency
Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée)
1759–1793
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François de Charette François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie
Royalist commander who led guerrilla war in the Lower Vendée
Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée)
1763–1796
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Jean Joseph Amable Humbert Jean Joseph Amable Humbert
French revolutionary general, commander of the 1798 Irish expedition
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1767–1823
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Charlotte Corday Charlotte Corday
Norman noble and Girondin sympathizer who assassinated Marat
Social movements and organizing
1768–1793
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Napoleon Bonaparte Napoléon Bonaparte
A conqueror who rose from revolutionary general to emperor
Government and administration · Consulate and First Empire state institutions
1769–1821
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Henri de La Rochejaquelein Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Young noble officer elected generalissimo of the Vendéan army
Military command · Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée)
1772–1794
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Adolphe Thiers Adolphe Thiers
July Monarchy premier who as chief executive in 1871 crushed the Paris Commune and became the Third Republic’s first president
Scholarship and theory · Independent activity
1797–1877
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Patrice de MacMahon Patrice de Mac Mahon
Marshal captured at Sedan who led the Versailles army against the Paris Commune and became the president of “Moral Order”
Military command · France state institutions
1808–1893
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Hermann von Eichhorn Hermann von Eichhorn
German field marshal who governed occupied Ukraine in 1918 and was assassinated in Kiev by a Left SR
Military command · Germany state institutions
1848–1918
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Junaid Khan Jüneýit han
Yomut Turkmen chief who held real power in the Khanate of Khiva in 1918–1920 and fought Soviet rule for more than a decade
Military command
1857–1938
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Najmuddin Gotsinsky Нажмудин Гоцинский
Avar religious leader and mufti of the North Caucasus who led anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Dagestan and Chechnya in 1918–1925
Military command
1859–1925
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Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky Пётр Васильевич Вологодский
A lawyer-statesman who held White Siberia together through compromise
Government and administration · Russian White movement
1863–1925
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Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff
General who directed Germany’s war with Hindenburg and later joined Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
Military command · Germany state institutions
1865–1937
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Rüdiger von der Goltz Rüdiger von der Goltz
Freikorps commander who tried to keep Germany's eastern influence in Finland and the Baltic
Military command · Germany state institutions
1865–1946
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Lucjan Żeligowski Lucjan Żeligowski
Polish general who seized Vilnius in a staged 'mutiny' and set up Central Lithuania
Military command · Poland
1865–1947
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Józef Piłsudski Józef Piłsudski
The soldier-politician who began as a socialist, became Head of State of reborn Poland, broke the Red Army's westward drive at Warsaw in 1920, and later ruled through a coup-built authoritarian regime
Government and administration · Poland
1867–1935
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Léon Daudet Léon Daudet
The voice of Action Française, the polemicist who pushed a scandal from the page into the street day after day
Literature and arts
1867–1942
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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Aristocratic soldier who rose from Russian Imperial lieutenant general to Marshal of Finland, facing the Soviet Union in two wars
Military command · Finland state institutions
1867–1951
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Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand
From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation
Military command · France state institutions
1867–1965
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Charles Maurras Charles Maurras
The brain of Action Française, the royalist theorist who denied the republic itself in the name of integral nationalism
Political and party leadership · Action Française
1868–1952
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Miklós Horthy Horthy Miklós
Regent who led the counter-revolutionary National Army and ruled Hungary until 1944
Government and administration · Hungary
1868–1957
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Max Hoffmann Max Hoffmann
German Eastern Front chief of staff who placed his soldier's boot on the Brest-Litovsk negotiating table
Military command · Germany state institutions
1869–1927
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Ioannis Metaxas Ιωάννης Μεταξάς
The monarchist anti-communist who established the 4th of August dictatorship
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1871–1941
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Andrievs Niedra Andrievs Niedra
Pastor and writer who headed Latvia's pro-German government of 1919
Literature and arts
1871–1942
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Gyula Károlyi Károlyi Gyula
Conservative aristocrat who set up the counter-revolutionary government in Szeged in 1919 and was prime minister of Hungary in 1931–1932
Political and party leadership · Hungary
1871–1947
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Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio
A marshal who served Fascism before steering Italy's turn
Military command · Italy state institutions
1871–1956
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Joseph August Joseph August von Österreich
Habsburg archduke and last field marshal of the Austro-Hungarian army who briefly declared himself regent of Hungary in August 1919
Military command · Austria state institutions
1872–1962
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Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi Павло Петрович Скоропадський
The last hetman of Ukraine, installed under German occupation in 1918
Government and administration · Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)
1873–1945
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François Coty François Coty
The perfume magnate who bought both the far-right leagues and a mass newspaper
Industry and production
1874–1934
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István Bethlen Bethlen István
Transylvanian aristocrat who, as prime minister in 1921–1931, consolidated the Horthy regime with a restricted franchise and a League loan
Government and administration · Hungary
1874–1946
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Pál Prónay Prónay Pál
Counter-revolutionary paramilitary commander who led the most brutal officer detachment of the Hungarian White Terror of 1919–1921
Military command · Hungary
1874–1947/1948
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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
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Rhee Syngman 이승만
First president of South Korea who demanded unification by force and refused to sign the armistice
Government and administration · South Korea state institutions
1875–1965
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Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb
Wehrmacht field marshal who directed the encirclement of Leningrad
Military command · Germany state institutions
1876–1956
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Erich Raeder Erich Raeder
A Nazi German naval commander who pursued a grand surface fleet
Military command · Germany state institutions
1876–1960
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Antal Lehár Lehár Antal
Legitimist general who led counter-revolutionary troops in western Hungary and joined both of King Charles’s return attempts in 1921
Military command · Hungary
1876–1962
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Georgy Stepanovich Khrustalev-Nosar Георгий Степанович Носарь
A non-party workers' lawyer elected the first chairman of the Petersburg Soviet in 1905
Social movements and organizing · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1877–1919
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Sadao Araki 荒木貞夫
A militarist leader of Japan's Imperial Way faction
Military command · Japan state institutions
1877–1966
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Pavel Bermondt-Avalov Павел Бермондт-Авалов
Commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army who led German Freikorps against Riga
Military command · Russian White movement
1877–1973
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Jean Chiappe Jean Chiappe
The Paris prefect of police, hard on the left and indulgent to the leagues, whose dismissal lit the fuse of 6 February
Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions
1878–1940
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Symon Vasyliovych Petliura Симон Васильович Петлюра
Ukrainian independence leader who headed the People's Republic but whose role in pogroms remains fiercely contested
Military command · Ukrainian People's Republic
1879–1926
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Pál Teleki Teleki Pál
Geographer of the “Red map” who was twice prime minister and killed himself in 1941 as German troops crossed Hungary
Government and administration · Hungary
1879–1941
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Said Alim Khan Said Olimxon
Last Emir of Bukhara, driven into exile in Afghanistan by the Red Army in 1920
Monarchs and royalty
1880–1944
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István Haller Haller István
Christian Socialist politician who, as minister of religion and education, prepared and tabled the numerus clausus bill of 1920
Government and administration · Hungary
1880–1964
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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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Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski
A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return
Military command · Poland
1881–1943