- Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset was a political sociologist from the USA. Seymour Lipset was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. Lipset received a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in 1949. Before that he taught at the University of Toronto.
- Joseph Hansen
Joseph Leroy Hansen, was an American Communist and leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party. Born in Richfield, Utah, Joseph Hansen was the oldest of 15 children in a poor working class family, and he was the only one of them who could attend college. His father, Conrad J. Z. Hansen, was a tailor, originally from Norway.
- Al Richardson
Al Richardson (20 December 1941 - 22 November 2003) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Born in Barnsley, Richardson studied theology at Hull University before becoming a lecturer at the University of Exeter. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, but left after reading Isaac Deutscher's biography of Leon Trotsky. Convinced of Trotskyism, he joined the Socialist Labour League (SLL), …
- Leon Sedov
Leon Lvovich Sedov was the son of the Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova. Leon Sedov was born when his father was in prison facing life sentence for having led the first Soviet in the Revolution of 1905. He lived separately from his parents after the October Revolution in order not to be seen as privileged. He later supported his father in the struggle against Josef Stalin and became a leader of the Trotskyist movement in his own right.
- John Scott
John Scott (1912-1976), was an American writer who worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The OSS was the predecessor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Scott was alleged to be working for Soviet intelligence. Scott was the son of conservationist and peace activist Scott Nearing. Scott migrated to the Soviet Union in 1932 and worked for many years in Magnitogorsk.
- Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (born on March 1 1939 in Sofia) is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory. Todorov has published a total of 21 books, including "The Poetics of Prose" (1971), "Introduction to Poetics" (1981), "The Conquest of America" (1982), "Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle" (1984), …
- Bolesław Bierut
Bolesław Bierut was a Polish-born Communist leader, a Stalinist who became President of Poland after the Soviet occupation of the country in the aftermath of World War II. Bierut was born near Lublin, the son of a village teacher and his wife (nee Rutkowska — hence his later adopted name "Bie(r)-rut"). In 1925 he went to Moscow to be trained at the school of the Communist International. When the Communist Party of Poland was dissolved by Joseph Stalin in 1938, …
- Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Russian writer of the Soviet period whose works anticipate existentialism. Platonov was one of the early writers who emerged after the Russian revolution. Although he was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies. His famous works include "Chevengur", a dystopian novel.
- Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, journalist and communist. He came to fame with the publication of his novel "Le Feu" (translated as "Under Fire") in 1916, which was based on his experiences during World War I. It shows his growing hatred of militarism and drew criticism at the time for its harsh naturalism. His book won the Prix Goncourt.
- Ken Jowitt
Ken Jowitt is the Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Jowitt specializes in the study of comparative politics, American foreign policy, and postcommunist countries.
- 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.
- Miron Constantinescu
Miron Constantinescu was a Romanian communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR, known as PMR for a period of his lifetime), as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist. Initially close to Communist Romania's leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, he became increasingly critical of the latter's Stalinist policies during the 1950s, and was sidelined together with Iosif Chişinevschi.
- Harpal Brar
Harpal Brar (born 1939) is an anti-revisionist political activist and Stalinist commentator. Born in Muktsar, Punjab, India, Brar has lived and worked in Britain since 1962, first as a student and then as a lecturer in law at Harrow College of Higher Education (later renamed the University of Westminster). He is noted for his defence of Stalinism.
- Aleksandr Dugin
Aleksandr Gel'yevich Dugin ("Russian": Александр Гельевич Дугин is a Russian political activist and ideologue of the contemporary Russian school of geopolitics often known as "neo-Eurasianism". He is often seen to be an advocate of National Bolshevism and is well known for his anti-Semitism, Russian nationalism and chauvinism. Dugin comes from a military family.
- Vittorio Vidali
Vittorio Vidali (1900 - 1983), also known as "Vittorio Vidale", "Enea Sormenti", "Jacobo Hurwitz Zender", "Carlos Contreras", "Comandante Carlos") was an Italian-born Stalinist assassin and what is commonly called a "communist agent". He was born in Trieste. Outside of Spain (where Vidali is said to have killed 400 people), …
- Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés was a Hungarian poet and novelist. Born into a poor peasant family, he was educated both in Budapest and in Paris. He was one of the leading "népi" ("working-class") authors, and someone with strong left-wing convinctions.
- Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he was a professor at Bucharest University. The author of ample studies of social history, which expressed Marxist views, he was at the center of several controversies concerning his attitudes towards nationalism.
- Gustav Klutsis
Latvian:Gustavs Klucis was a pioneering photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century. He is known for the Soviet revolutionary and Stalinist propaganda he produced with his wife and collaborator Valentina Kulagina.
- Aleksander Ford
Aleksander Ford (born November 24, 1908, Kiev, the Russian Empire, now Ukraine; died April 4, 1980, Florida, U.S.A.) was a Polish film director. Polish filmmaker Aleksander Ford played a key role in establishing Poland's international reputation for excellent cinema. One of Ford's protégés was perhaps the world's best-known Polish director, Andrzej Wajda. After a year of making short silent films, Ford made his first feature-length film, "Mascot", in 1930.
- Bill Bland
Bill Bland (April 28, 1916-March 13 2001) was a British Stalinist and optician who was notable as a worldwide leader of the rather small movement that backed Enver Hoxha, the Albanian communist leader, in the struggles over Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in the later 1960s. Before becoming a leader of the small anti-revisionist movement Bland was a member of the Communist Party of New Zealand and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Salomon Morel
Salomon (also Solomon or Shlomo) Morel was a Polish Jew, who, between February and November 1945, was a member of Communist State Security, known in Polish as Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, and the commandant of the Stalinist-era concentration camp "Zgoda" in Świętochłowice, Poland. Officially people held in the camp were political prisoners and German nationals, …
- Ernst May
Ernst May (July 27, 1886, Frankfurt am Main-September 11, 1970, Hamburg) was a German architect and city planner. May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during Germany's Weimar period, and who in 1930 less successfully exported those ideas to Soviet Union cities, newly created under Stalinist rule. It is said May's "brigade" of German architects and planners established twenty cities in three years, including Magnitogorsk.
- Ernő Gerő
Ernő Gerő (July 8, 1898 - March 12, 1980) was a Hungarian Communist leader in the period after World War II and briefly leader of Hungary in 1956. Gerő was born in Terbegec, Hungary (now Trebušovce, Slovakia) to Jewish parents, though he later totally repudiated religion. An early Hungarian communist, Gerő fled from Hungary to the Soviet Union after Béla Kun's brief communist government was overthrown. During his two decades living in the USSR, …
- Nicola Chiaromonte
Nicola Chiaromonte (1905-1972) was an Italian activist and author. In 1934 he fled Italy for France, after opposing Mussolini's fascist government. During the Spanish Civil War, he flew in Andre Malraux's squadron, fighting against fascist supported General Francisco Franco. The character of Scali in Malraux's novel "Man's Hope" is based on Chiaromonte.
- Maurice Spector
Maurice Spector (1898 - August 1, 1968) was the Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada for much of the 1920s and an early follower of Leon Trotsky after his split from the Communist International. Spector was influenced by Trotsky's work 'The Bolsheviki and World Peace' which was published in the Toronto Mail and Empire in January 1918, …
- David Crook
David Crook (born London, August 14, 1910; died Beijing, November 1, 2000). A committed Marxist from 1931, he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. After being wounded in his first day at the front, he was returned to a hospital in Madrid. There he was recruited by the KGB to spy on those whom the Stalinists called Trotskyites, a group which included George Orwell.
- George Călinescu
George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, writer and journalist, one of the outstanding figures of Romanian letters of 20th century. He was born in Bucharest, where he later went to the university to study Italian, but much of his formative years were spent in Iaşi. He moved between these two centres for much of his life, as he gained his Ph.D. in Iaşi, and lectured at the university there before becoming a professor at the University of Bucharest in 1945.
- Witold Lutosławski
Witold Lutosławski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century. He was possibly the most significant Polish composer after Chopin, and was one of the pre-eminent musicians of his country during the last three decades of the century. During his lifetime he earned a large number of international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
- John Pepper
John Pepper, real name József Pogány, also known as Joseph was a Hungarian-born Communist active in the United States. Pogány participated in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 with Béla Kun, and, after its failure, he fled to Austria and later to Soviet Russia. He was accused in taking part on October 31, 1918 in the murder of former Hungarian Prime Minister Count István Tisza. In the trial of 1921 he was convicted of murder, …
- Fritz Platten
Fritz Platten was a Swiss Communist. After the collapse of the Second International, Platten joined the Zimmerwald Movement and became a Communist. Fritz Platten is mostly know for having been the main organizer of Lenin’s return trip from the exile in Switzerland back home to Russia after the February Revolution. Due to the World War, the trip was not easily arranged, but Lenin and his company traveled through Germany in a sealed traincar.
- Rudolf Margolius
Rudolf Margolius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Czechoslovakia 1949-1952, co-defendant in the Slánský trial (November 1952) The 1952 Slánský trial involved the Communist Party General Secretary, Rudolf Slánský, and his thirteen co-defendants. They were arrested, unjustly accused, tried, and executed as traitors and western spies. The trial was orchestrated by Soviet advisors, sent to Prague by Stalin, …
- Vasile Stati
Vasile Stati is a Moldovan politician and linguist. He studied history and philology at the Moldovan language Department of the State University of Chişinău. Stati is one of the most fervent supporters of Moldovenism, a movement of Stalinist origins, currently promoted by the Moldovan authorities. He wrote the monographies "Moldovenii de la est de Nistru" ("The Moldavians to the east of the Dniester") and "Istoria Moldovei" ("History of Moldavia").
- Helena Wolińska-Brus
Helena Wolińska-Brus is a former military prosecutor from Poland, involved in Stalinist regime show trials of the 1950s. She is alleged of organizing the unlawful arrest of, and aiding investigation and trial against, Emil August Fieldorf. Fieldorf was executed on February 24, 1953. Wolińska was married to Franciszek Jóźwiak, the commander of the Gwardia Ludowa and the first commandant of the communist state police Milicja Obywatelska in Poland.
- Lance Sharkey
Lawrence (Lance) Louis Sharkey (18 August 1898-13 May 1967) was the secretary of Communist Party of Australia from 1948 to 1965. From obscure rural beginnings he was to become a member of the executive of the Communist International or Comintern. He was an orthodox communist in the Stalinist mould unswerving in his support for the Soviet Union. Sharkey was born at Warry Creek, near Cargo, New South Wales, Australia.
- Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish-Jewish psychologist, member of Poale Zion Left party, editor of Arbeter Cajtung, who held a leadership role in Żegota, the World War II underground organization in Poland whose aim was to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.
- Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1940s. Smith was the son of Reverend A. E. Smith, a social gospel minister who became a leading figure in the Communist Party. Stewart Smith was one of the leaders of the Stalinist faction, led by Tim Buck, that took over the party in 1929.
- Jack Kavanagh
Jack Kavanagh was a leader of the Socialist Party of Canada from 1908 to 1921 and was a founding member of the Communist Party of Canada. He moved to Australia in 1925, and was a central leader of the Communist Party of Australia until 1930, when the Stalinist Comintern removed him from the leadership. He was expelled from the party in January 1931, readmitted, and then expelled a second time in 1934 after being accused of Trotskyism.
- Robert Sheldon Harte
Robert Sheldon Harte was an American Communist who worked as one of Leon Trotsky’s assistants and bodyguards in Coyoacán, Mexico. During the Stalinist attack against Trotsky’s household on May 24, 1940, Harte was abducted and later murdered by the Stalinist agents. Harte's body was found alongside the road to Desierto de los Leones and Trotsky commissioned a plaque and had it placed at the front of the house with the text: "In Memory of Robert Sheldon Harte, …
- Otto Ville Kuusinen
Otto Ville (Wilhelm) Kuusinen (Laukaa, Finland, 1881 - 17 May, 1964, Moscow) was a Finnish and Soviet politician, literature historian, and poet, who after the defeat in the Finnish Civil War fled to Bolshevist Russia, where he worked until his death. After having overthrown the more moderate party chairman J. K. Kari in 1906, Kuusinen came to dominate Finland's Social Democratic Party.
- Brian Reynolds Myers
Brian Reynolds Myers is an American critic and professor of North Korean literature, culture, and society, who lives and works in South Korea. He is the author of "Han Sǒrya and North Korean Literature" (Cornell, 1994) and "A Reader's Manifesto" (Melville House, 2002), but is known almost exclusively in the United States for the second work. Myers is a researcher at Dongseo University.