Kim Il-Sung

Kim Il-Sung

male, deceased (1994)
Kim Il-sung was a North Korean Communist leader from its founding in early 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il. He...
Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

male, deceased (1985)
was the leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Communist Albanian Party of Labour....
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

male, deceased (1924) (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known by the alias 'Lenin', was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October...
Ludo Martens

Ludo Martens

male, 63 years old
Ludo Martens (born 12 March, 1946) is a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union. He is also the chairman of...
Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum

female, 45 years old
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the...
Ramiz Alia

Ramiz Alia

male, 84 years old
Ramiz Alia (born October 18, 1925) was the leader of Albania from 1985 to 1992. He had been designated as successor by Enver Hoxha and took power...
Zhu De

Zhu De

male, deceased (1976)
Zhu De began to read about Marxism and Leninism in Shanghai. In the mid-1920s, he went to Europe, studying at Göttingen University in Germany from 1...

Mathieu Kérékou

male, 76 years old
Mathieu Kérékou, also known as Ahmed Kérékou, (born 2 September 1933) was President of Dahomey/Benin as military dictator from 1972 to 1991. He serv...
Wang Ming

Wang Ming

male, deceased (1974)
Wang Ming was a senior leader of the early Communist Party of China (CPC) as well as the mastermind of the famous 28 Bolsheviks group. Wang was...
H. B. Acton

H. B. Acton

male, deceased (1974)
Harry Burrows Acton was a British academic in the field of political philosophy, known for books defending the morality of capitalism, and...