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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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Emmanuel Sieyès Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Clergyman and political theorist of Third Estate sovereignty
Political and party leadership · French revolutionary movement
1748–1836
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Jacques Pierre Brissot Jacques Pierre Brissot
Girondin journalist and deputy who championed revolutionary war
Political and party leadership · Girondins
1754–1793
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Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
French general who fought in the revolutions of two continents
Military command · Feuillants
1757–1834
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Alexandre de Lameth Alexandre de Lameth
Politician who moved from the revolutionary triumvirate to the Feuillants
Political and party leadership · Feuillants
1760–1829
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Charles Delescluze Charles Delescluze
Jacobin journalist of 1830 and 1848 who became the Commune’s war delegate and walked to his death on a barricade
Ideology and propaganda · International Workingmen's Association (First International)
1809–1871
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Georges Clemenceau Georges Clemenceau
Radical French prime minister at the end of the First World War who pressed harsh terms on Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference
Political and party leadership · France state institutions
1841–1929
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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson
US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1856–1924
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Italian prime minister who led the country to victory after Caporetto but failed to win its territorial claims at the peace conference
Political and party leadership · Italy state institutions
1860–1952
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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
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1865–1952
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Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova Екатерина Дмитриевна Кускова
A publicist who moved between reformist socialism and anti-party politics
Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1869–1958
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Dénes Berinkey Berinkey Dénes
Last prime minister of the Hungarian People’s Republic, who resigned with his cabinet over the Vix note
Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions
1871–1944
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Mihály Károlyi Károlyi Mihály
Liberal aristocrat who came to power in the Aster Revolution and was president of the First Hungarian Republic
Political and party leadership · Hungary state institutions
1875–1955
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Oszkár Jászi Jászi Oszkár
Social scientist who led the Radical Party and served as minister of nationalities in the Károlyi government
Government and administration · Hungary state institutions
1875–1957
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Gustav Stresemann Gustav Stresemann
Weimar chancellor who ended passive resistance in 1923 and, as foreign minister, concluded the Locarno treaties
Diplomacy and international organization · Germany state institutions
1878–1929
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Paul Reynaud Paul Reynaud
A republican statesman who urged resistance in the face of defeat
Government and administration · France state institutions
1878–1966
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Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander
Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1879–1943
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Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña
The last president of the Republic who embodied the republican cause but crossed into France and resigned when Catalonia fell
Government and administration · Spanish Republic state institutions
1880–1940
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Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1882–1945
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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
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Édouard Daladier Édouard Daladier
The Radicals' 'Bull of Vaucluse', who helped build the Popular Front and dismantled it with his own hands
Government and administration · France state institutions
1884–1970
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Georgios Papandreou Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου
A liberal statesman at the threshold of liberation and civil war
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1888–1968
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Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti
Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty
Government and administration · Finland state institutions
1889–1956
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Hu Shih 胡适
The liberal of the New Culture Movement who led the vernacular-language campaign and later served the Nationalists as a diplomat
Scholarship and theory
1891–1962
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Two-time presidential nominee who pressed the Soviet Union over its missiles in Cuba at the UN Security Council
Government and administration · United States state institutions
1900–1965
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Vincent Henri Badie Vincent Badie
A Radical Socialist who defended the Republic
Government and administration · France state institutions
1902–1989
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Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France
French prime minister who promised a ceasefire within four months after Điện Biên Phủ and concluded the 1954 Geneva Accords
Government and administration · France state institutions
1907–1982
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Henry M. Jackson Henry M. Jackson
A hawkish Democratic senator who tied Soviet trade status to Jewish emigration
Political and party leadership · United States state institutions
1912–1983
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Robert F. Francis Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy
The president's brother and attorney general who engineered the secret settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Law and justice · United States state institutions
1925–1968
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Борис Николаевич Ельцин
The man who climbed onto the tank
Government and administration · Russian Federation state institutions
1931–2007
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Hugh Thomas Hugh Thomas
The historian who made the Spanish Civil War a global narrative
Scholarship and theory · Labour Party (United Kingdom)
1931–2017
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Nicéphore Soglo Nicéphore Soglo
Benin’s transitional government and pluralism
Government and administration · Benin state institutions
1934–
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Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin Евгений Григорьевич Ясин
A liberal economist who helped design the transition from a planned to a market economy
Scholarship and theory
1934–2023
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Manandafy Rakotonirina Manandafy Rakotonirina
Founder of the MFM, the left party of the 1972 student-revolution generation
Political and party leadership
1938–2019
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Václav Klaus Václav Klaus
The market reformer who rejected a third way
Government and administration · Czechia state institutions
1941–
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Vladimir Tismăneanu Vladimir Tismăneanu
Romanian-American political scientist and authority on the 1989 revolutions
Scholarship and theory
1951–
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Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama
The scholar who read 1989 as liberal democracy's endpoint
Scholarship and theory
1952–
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Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash
British historian who coined 'refolution' to define the peaceful revolutions of 1989
Scholarship and theory
1955–