- Joseph Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, …
- Liu Shaoqi
Liu Shaoqi (November 24 1898 - November 12 1969) was a Chinese Communist leader. He was President of the People's Republic of China April 27 1959 - October 31 1968. Born into a rich peasant family in Yinshan, Hunan province (near Mao's Shaoshan), Liu attended the same school as Mao Zedong in Changsha, and then went to the Soviet Union and received his university education at the University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow. In 1921 he joined the newly formed CCP.
- Liu Qi
Liu Qi (刘淇) (b. November 1942) is the CPC Beijing Committee Secretary, first-in-charge of Beijing, and also a member of the CPC Politburo Central Committee. Until 2003, he was Mayor of Beijing.
- Bo Xilai
Bo Xilai (born July 1949) is the current Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. Bo is the son of Bo Yibo, a Communist revolutionary elder, and his rise to fame came from his tenures as the Mayor of the coastal economic hub of Dalian and subsequently the Governor of Liaoning. Bo is a representative figure for China's new generation of leaders who are casual in front of the media, a shift away from the deeply serious focus of Chinese politics.
- Chen Yun
Chen Yun (June 13, 1905 - April 10, 1995) was one of the most influential leaders of the People's Republic of China and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party for almost its entire history. He is also known as as Liao Chengyun (廖程雲); it's unclear whether this was his original name or a pseudonym he used during his underground work in Shanghai. He was one of the Big Five in Communist China along with Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, …
- Li Ruihuan
Lǐ Ruìhuán was a politician active late 20th century and early 21st century in the People's Republic of China. Li was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until November 2002. He served as Chairman of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) until March 2003. A native of Baodi County, Tianjin, and originally a carpenter, …
- Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
- John Rees
John Rees (born 1957) is a British Trotskyist political activist and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He is a former editor of "International Socialism", National Secretary of the Respect coalition, co-founder of the Stop the War Coalition and vice-president (Europe) of the International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq. He was top of the Respect party list in the West Midlands region for the 2004 European Election, …
- Karl Radek
Karl Berngardovich Radek was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader. He was born in then Lemberg (now L'viv in Ukraine, then in Austro-Hungary), as Karol Sobelsohn, to a Jewish family. He took the name "Radek" from a favourite character in a book (perhaps "Syzyfowe prace" by Stefan Żeromski). A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) since 1898, he participated in the 1905 Revolution in Warsaw.
- Pinarayi Vijayan
Vijayan is an influential communist politician and a former minister of Kerala, South India. He was born on 21st March 1944 in Pinarayi in Kannur district. Currently he is the Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) and a Central Committee member. Pinarayi Vijayan entered politics through student union activities and eventually joined the Communist Party in 1964.
- Peng Zhen
Peng Zhen (October 12, 1902-April 26, 1997) was a leading member of the Communist Party of China. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1923 as a founding member of the Shanxi Province CP. Arrested in 1929, he continued underground political activities while imprisoned. He was released from prison in 1935 and began organizing a resistance movement against the invading Japanese forces.
- Ieng Sary
Ieng Sary (born 1922 or 1925) was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge. He was the deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 and held several senior positions in the Democratic Kampuchea party from 1979 until his defection to the government in 1996.
- Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country for his pioneering tour in space.
- Yegor Ligachev
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Russian politician, who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Originally a protege of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachev became a potential challenger to his leadership. Ligachev had been first secretary of the party in Tomsk, Siberia when he was discovered by Yuri Andropov and brought to Moscow to become head of the Central Committee's Department for Organizational Party Work.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.
- Yao Wenyuan
Yao Wenyuan (1931 - 23 December, 2005) was a Chinese literary critic and politician and a member of the "Gang of Four" during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).. He began his career in Shanghai as a literary critic, where he became known for his sharp attacks against colleagues, such as in June 1957 against the newspaper Wenhuibao. Since that time, he began to closely collaborate with leftist Shanghai politicians, …
- Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician. Voroshilov was born in Verkhneye, near Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolshevik party in 1903. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian provisional government and Commissar for Internal Affairs.
- Ta Mok
Ta Mok, which means "Grandfather Mok" in Khmer, was the "nom de guerre" of Chhit Choeun (c. 1926 - 21 July 2006), a senior figure in the leadership of the Khmer Rouge. His name has also been reported as Ek Choeun, Oeung Choeun and Ung Choeun, and he was also known as "Brother Number Five".
- Felipe Pérez Roque
Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque is the foreign minister of the Republic of Cuba. At his appointment in 1999, he was not only the youngest member of the Cuban cabinet but also the only to be born after the the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Pérez Roque was formerly an electronics engineer and leader of student organisations who has served as Fidel Castro's chief of staff for a decade prior to his ministry. As well as being a prominent member of the Cuban Council of Ministers, …
- M. A. Baby
M.A. Baby is an Indian politician. He is the Education Minister of Kerala State. He is also a Central Committee Member of Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, born Yankel Movshevich Eiman ; known under pseudonyms "Andrey", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" (March 16 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of pre-Soviet Union Soviet Russia. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod to Jewish parents, his father being an engraver. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902, and then the Bolshevik faction, supporting Vladimir Lenin. He was involved in the 1905 revolution.
- Son Sen
Son Sen (June 12, 1930 - June 10, 1997) was a member of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea/Party of Democratic Kampuchea from 1974 to 1992. Son Sen was born in southern Vietnam, of Sino-Vietnamese ancestry and grew up among the settled Cambodian minority. He was educated in Phnom Penh and in the 1950s received a scholarship to study in Paris, where he became a member of a Marxist group of Cambodian students at whose centre was Saloth Sar (Pol Pot).
- Qu Qiubai
Qu Qiubai (January 29, 1899 - June 18, 1935) was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. He was a leader of the Communist Party of China in the late 1920s and important Chinese Marxist writer and thinker. Qu spent much of his early life in Moscow and was heavily influenced by Stalin. He became acting Chairman of Politburo in 1927 after the fall of Chen Duxiu, thus becoming the "de facto" leader of the party.
- Alexander Lebed
Alexander Ivanovich Lebed (April 20, 1950, Novocherkassk - April 28, 2002) was a Russian Lieutenant General and popular politician, who was killed in a Mi-8 helicopter crash. Alexander Lebed was the commander of the 106th Airborne Division from 1990 to 1991. Lebed had come to national attention after the Soviet Coup of 1991, in which a conspiracy of old-guard Communist hard-liners sought to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev's government and reverse his reforms.
- Chen Yuan
Chen Yuan (陈元), born in January 1945, is Governor of the China Development Bank. Chen Yuan graduated with a Master' s degree in Industrial Economics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was appointed secretary of the Xicheng District Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party (CPC) and director-general of the Beijing Municipal Commerce and Trade Department in August 1982.
- Mikhail Tomsky
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (born Efremov, sometimes transliterated as Yefremov, October 31 1880 – August 22, 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. Tomsky attempted to form a trade union at his factory in St. Petersburg resulting in his dismissal.
- Ivan Konev
Ivan Stepanovich Konev, was a Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, liberated much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin. Later, as the Commander of Warsaw Pact forces, Konev led the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Soviet armed divisions.
- Leonid Krasin
Leonid Borisovich Krasin was a Russian and Soviet Bolshevik politician and diplomat.
- John Steele
John Brian Steele (born 1940) is a political activist in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Communist League's central committee until 2000, and has campaigned for office many times at the municipal and provincial levels. The Communist League grew out of the Revolutionary Workers League, which was initially a Trotskyist organization, but subsequently turned its support to Fidel Castro's Cuba.
- Mac Maharaj
Sathyandranath Ragunanan "Mac" Maharaj (born April 22, 1935 in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is a South African politician affiliated to the African National Congress, academic and businessman of Indian origin. Maharaj was a political activist who worked closely on anti-apartheid activities with Nelson Mandela, with whom he was incarcerated following the Little Rivonia Trial on Robben Island.
- Hu Nim
Hu Nim (1932–1977), alias Phoas, was a Cambodian politician and public official. Nim was from a poor peasant background. He was, however, a brilliant student and rose to the position of Director of the Treasury at the age of 26. He served under Prince Norodom Sihanouk as the Director of Customs and was elected to Cambodia's Parliament in 1958.
- Jacques Duclos
Jacques Duclos (October 2, 1896 in Louey, Hautes-Pyrénées-April 25, 1975 in Montreuil) was a French Communist politician who played a key role in French politics from 1926, when he entered the French National Assembly after defeating Paul Reynaud, until 1969, when he achieved a substantial proportion of the vote in the Presidential Elections. During World War I, Duclos fought in the Battle of Verdun, where he was wounded.
- Vladimir Dedijer
Vladimir Dedijer (4 February 1914 - 30 November 1990) was a Yugoslav partisan fighter, politician and historian. During World War II he was an editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper "Borba", and member of the agitprop section to the General Staff. After the war he was a member of Yugoslav delegation on 1946 Paris peace conference and on several sessions of United Nations General Assembly (1945-1952).
- Frol Kozlov
Frol Romanovich Kozlov (January 30, 1965) was a Soviet statesman, Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). He was elected a candidate member of the Presidium (as the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was then called) on 14 February 1957 and served as a full member from 29 June 1957 until he was relieved of his duties on 16 November 1964, following the ousting of his mentor, Nikita Khrushchev a month earlier.
- Aleksei Kuznetsov
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov (1905-1950) was a Soviet statesman, CPSU (since 1925) functionary, Lieutenant General, member of CPSU Central Committee (1939-1949). He was 1st Secretary (deputy leader) to Leningrad CPSU "gorkom" (city committee) and "obkom" (oblast committee), an organized of the defense during the Siege of Leningrad. He was arrested in 1949 as part of the Leningrad Affair show trial, executed in 1950 and rehabilitated posthumously.
- T. K. Rengarajan
T.K. Rengarajan is an Indian communist politician and trade unionist. He is a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Tamil Nadu State Executive Committee member of CPI(M), All India Vice-president of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. He was the runner-up candidate in the Thiruchirapalli constituency in the Lok Sabha elections of 1980, 1989 and 1991.
- Chivu Stoica
Chivu Stoica was a leading Romanian Communist politician.. Stoica was born in Smeeni, Buzău County, the sixth child of a ploughman. At age 12 he left home, and started working as an apprentice at Căile Ferate Române, the state railway corporation. In 1921, he moved to Bucharest, where he worked as a boilermaker at the Vulcan, Lemaitre, and Malaxa companies. There he met Gheorghe Vasilichi, who recruited him into the Communist Party.
- Georgy Pyatakov
Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (August 6 1890-1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader during the Russian revolution, and member of the Left Opposition. Pyatakov (party pseudonyms: Kyivsky, Lyalin, Petro, Yapontets) was born August 6, 1890 at Maryinsky plant of Cherkasy district, Kyiv province. He started political activity as an anarchist while he was in secondary school, …
- Piotr Jaroszewicz
Gen. Piotr Jaroszewicz was a Polish Communist political figure. He served as the Prime Minister of Poland between 1970 and 1980. He was murdered in 1992. Piotr Jaroszewicz was born October 8, 1909 in Nieśwież. After finishing the secondary school in Jasło he started working as a teacher and headmaster in Garwolin. After the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi-Soviet alliance he moved to Soviet-occupied zone of Poland. In 1943 he joined the 1st Polish Army of Gen.
- Yan Rudzutak
Yan Ernestovich Rudzutak ; August 3, 1887 - July 29, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. Rudzutak was born in the Kuldiga district of the Courland Province (now Latvia) in Russia in a family of a farm worker. In 1903, he started working in a factory in Riga. Two years later, he joined Latvian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1907, Rudzutak was arrested and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor.