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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity
Affiliation
Position(set)
Citizenship
Background
Era
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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Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Commander of the Austro-Prussian army who issued the Brunswick Manifesto
Military command
1735–1806
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Frederick William II Friedrich Wilhelm II
King of Prussia who signed the Declaration of Pillnitz and campaigned against France
Monarchs and royalty
1744–1797
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Leopold II Leopold II
Holy Roman Emperor who co-signed the Declaration of Pillnitz
Monarchs and royalty
1747–1792
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Isaac Le Chapelier Isaac Le Chapelier
Author of the Le Chapelier Law banning guilds and workers’ combinations
Legislature and state representation · French monarchy
1754–1794
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Adrien Duport Adrien Duport
Feuillant politician and advocate of judicial reform
Political and party leadership · Feuillants
1759–1798
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Antoine Barnave Antoine Barnave
Leading Feuillant orator who sought to preserve constitutional monarchy
Political and party leadership · Feuillants
1761–1793
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Jean-Charles Pichegru Charles Pichegru
French Revolutionary Wars general, royalist conspirator
Military command · French First Republic state institutions
1761–1804
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Albert Apponyi Apponyi Albert
Aristocratic statesman who led Hungary’s delegation to the Paris peace talks in 1920 and pleaded for revising Trianon at the League
Diplomacy and international organization · Hungary
1846–1933
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Yuan Shikai 袁世凯
The Beiyang strongman who took over the 1911 revolution and tried to make himself emperor
Military command · Beiyang government and warlords
1859–1916
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Wilhelm II Wilhelm II.
Last German Emperor, who backed Austria-Hungary in the July Crisis and abdicated and fled in 1918
Monarchs and royalty · Germany state institutions
1859–1941
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Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Heir presumptive of Austria-Hungary whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 was the immediate cause of the First World War
Monarchs and royalty · Austria state institutions
1863–1914
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Bogd Khan Богд хаан
The Tibetan-born reincarnate lama enthroned as the last great khan of Mongolia
Religion
1869–1924
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Victor Emmanuel III Vittorio Emanuele III
A monarch caught between constitutional authority and responsibility for Fascism
Monarchs and royalty · Italy state institutions
1869–1947
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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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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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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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Alexandros Papagos Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος
The Greek field marshal who staked the war on the Albanian front
Military command · Greece state institutions
1883–1955
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Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula
Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary
1884–1944
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Charles I Karl I.
Last Habsburg monarch, Emperor Charles I of Austria and King Charles IV of Hungary, who twice tried to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921
Monarchs and royalty · Austria state institutions
1887–1922
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George II of Greece Γεώργιος Βʹ
Patron of the restored monarchy and Metaxas dictatorship
Government and administration · Greece state institutions
1890–1947
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József Mindszenty Mindszenty József
Archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal sentenced to life in a 1949 show trial, who sheltered in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956
Religion
1892–1975
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Paul Karađorđević Pavle Karađorđević
A regent pressed toward the Axis while trying to keep Yugoslavia out of war
Monarchs and royalty · Yugoslavia
1893–1976
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Hirohito 裕仁
The emperor who carried Japan through war and constitutional transformation
Monarchs and royalty · Japan state institutions
1901–1989
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Puyi 溥仪
Last emperor of the Qing, puppet emperor of Manchukuo, and a “remoulded” citizen of the People’s Republic
Monarchs and royalty · Qing dynasty
1906–1967
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Michael I Mihai I
The last King of Romania, who arrested Antonescu on 23 August 1944 to bring the country over to the Allies and abdicated at gunpoint in 1947
Monarchs and royalty · Romania
1921–2017
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Peter II Petar II Karađorđević
The last king who carried Yugoslavia’s royal legitimacy into exile
Monarchs and royalty · Yugoslavia
1923–1970