- Eric Hobsbawm
Eric John Earnest Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. Hobsbawm was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group. He is president of Birkbeck, University of London. One of Hobsbawm's interests is the development of traditions. His work is a study of their construction in the context of the nation state.
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to save the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. These documents identified the bearers as Swedish nationals awaiting repatriation. It is impossible to determine exactly how many Jews were rescued by his actions.
- 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.
- Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinskii, was a Russian and Soviet jurist and later diplomat. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953. Vyshinsky was of Polish descent and spoke some English and excellent French. He became a Menshevik in 1903 and in 1917 he undersigned an order to arrest Lenin according the decision of the Russian Provisional Government.
- Gao Gang
Gao Gang (高岗) (pinyin: Gāo Gǎng, Wades-Giles: Kao Kang) (1905-1954) was a Chinese Communist political figure. A native of Hengshan, Shaanxi Province, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1926. In the mid-1930s he was in charge of a small independent Communist area at Baoan, Shaanxi, where the Long March led by Mao Zedong ended. Unlike most other early Chinese communist leaders who were intellectuals, Gao Gang was illiterate.
- Wang Lequan
Wang Lequan is the current secretary of the Communist Party of China of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
- Xu Xiangqian
Xu Xiangqian (November 8, 1901 - September 21, 1990) was a prominent Communist military leader in the People's Republic of China. He was born in Wutai county, Shanxi province, China. Xu was admitted to the Whampoa Academy in 1924. He held various officer ranks in the National Revolutionary Army between 1925 and 1927. Xu joined the Communist Party of China in 1927 and later became a commander in the 4th Front Army of the Red Army, led by Zhang Guotao.
- Polina Zhemchuzhina
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina ; 1897 - 1970) was the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. Born Pearl Karpovskaya (the word "pearl" in Russian is "жемчужина") to the family of a Jewish tailor in the village of Pologi, in the Yekaterinoslav region (today Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine), she joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party of Bolsheviks in 1918 and served as a propaganda commissar in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
- Dmitri Furmanov
Dmitriy Furmanov (November 7 (N.S.), 1891- March, 1926) was a Russian writer. During the Russian Civil War he joined the Red Army and served as a Bolshevik commissar. He is well-known for his book "Chapayev" about Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev, a Red Army officer and a hero of the Civil War. In 1941 the town "Sereda" was renamed "Furmanov" after him. Furmanov is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery. See also Russian jokes#Chapayev.
- Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 in Prague - January 3, 1923 in Lipnice nad Sázavou) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his world-famous novel "The Good Soldier Švejk", an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker.
- Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze was a member of the Politburo, and close friend to Stalin. Ordzhonikidze, Stalin and Anastas Mikoyan comprised what was jokingly referred to as the "Caucasian Clique". Born in Kharagauli, Western Georgia, Ordzhonikidze became involved in radical politics in 1903, and after graduating as a doctor from the Mikhailov Hospital Medical School in Tiflis, …
- Grigory Semyonov
Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, or Semenov (September 13(25), 1890-August 30, 1946), was leader of the counterrevolution in the Baikal region and beyond in 1917-1920, Lieutenant General (1919). Semyonov graduated from Orenburg Military School in 1911. He took part in World War I and became a yesaul. In July of 1917, Semyonov was appointed Commissar of the Provisional Government in the Baikal region, …
- Prokopius Dzhaparidze
Prokopius Aprasionovich Dzhaparidze or Japaridze (1880-1918) was a Georgian Communist activist, one of the Red Army and Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution. Educated at the Aleksandrovsk Teachers Institute in Tbilisi, Dzhaparidze joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898. He was one of the founders of "Gummet" organization, set up to do political work amongst Muslims, …
- Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof was a Soviet military figure and a statesman of Czech nationality. Zof joined the revolutionary movement in 1910. Three years later he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). During the World War I, Zof worked as a fitter at an arms factory in Sestroretsk, where he was in charge of the Bolshevist underground.
- Oleg Koshevoy
Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy (June 8, 1926 - February 9, 1943) was a Ukrainian partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II (the "Great Patriotic War") between 1941 and 1945. Born in Pryluky, a city in the Chernihiv Oblast (province) of present-day north-central Ukraine (at the time a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), …
- Alexander Rado
Sandor (Alexander) Rado (Hungarian Radó Sándor 5 November 1899, Újpest – 1981 – Budapest) was a Hungarian-born Soviet military intelligence agent during World War II. Rado was born in a Jewish family in Újpest near Budapest. His father was a manager in a trade firm and then a businessman. During World War I after the graduation from gymnasium (high school) in 1917 Rado was drafted into Austro-Hungarian army. He was sent into a fortress artillery officer school.
- Grigory Korganov
Grigory Nikolayevich Korganov (Korganashvili) (July 301886, Tiflis - September 20, 1918, nowadays Turkmenistan) was a Georgian Communist activist, one of the 26 Baku Commissars and Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution. Korganov was born in Tiflis in the family of a military officer. From 1907 he attended the Moscow University and headed the Caucasian student association, but he was expelled due to his revolutionary work.
- Stanisław Bobiński
Stanisław Bobiński was a Russian communist politician, journalist and military commander of Polish ancestry. Born November 20, 1882 in Warsaw to a gentry family. In 1910 he graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. He continued his studies at the Academy of Forestry in Dresden, where he received his diploma in 1911. In 1913 he returned to Warsaw and became a member of the committee of the SDKPiL party.
- Ivan Peresypkin
Ivan Peresypkin Soviet Marshal / Russian Marshal of Signals PERESYPKIN Ivan Terentyevich (1904 - 1978) From May 1939 to July 1944 - People's Commissar of Signal Forces of the USSR (during the Great Patriotic War served concurrency as Deputy People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR - chief of the Main Communication Directorate of the Red Army. From November 1944 - chief of the Main Communication Directorate of the Red Army During the war, …
- Stanisław Pestkowski
Stanisław Pestkowski (1882 - 1937) was Polish Bolshevik active in the Russian Revolution. He was born in Poland joined Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and was strongly influenced by Rosa Luxemburg. In 1917 he went to Russia where he became Commissar for Telegraphs in the Bolshevik government. From 1917 he was involved in Narkomnats, the Soviet People's Commissariat of Nationalities.
- Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was a senior figure in the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) during the period of the Great Purge. His reign is sometimes known as the "Yezhovschina" (or "Yezhovshchina",, the "Yezhov era").
- Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev ; surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov ; – September 11, 1971) was the chief director of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. He was removed from power by his party colleagues in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
- Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - November 10, 1982) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus de facto ruler of the USSR) from 1964 to 1982, serving in that position longer than anyone other than Joseph Stalin. He was twice Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state), from 1960 to 1964 and from 1977 to 1982.
- Josef Vissarionovich Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Stalin Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich (né Djugashvili ) (1879-1953). Along with Hitler and Mao Tse-tung , Stalin was one of the three genocidal monsters of the 20th century. Soviet dictator and war leader, supreme commander in the 1941-5 ‘Great Patriotic War’ and one of the ‘big three’ with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill . In 1945 he appointed himself generalissimus (general of generals), a title only previously awarded to the great Suvorov .
- Brian
Hrmm. More coming soon. I'm on facebook more than this, mainly becuase of the colors and songs and video trash that this POS promotes. Its like geocities, all over again.
- Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) was born as Deng Xiansheng into a landlord family in Guang'an District, Sichuan province. At the age of 15, Deng was sent by his father to a preparatory school in Chongqing. A year later, Deng left for France, where he participated in the work-study program for Chinese students. In 1922, Deng joined the China Socialist Youth League. Among his associates was Zhou Enlai .
- Cai Hesen
Cai E (1882-1916) was born in Shaoyang, Hunan Province. His courtesy name is Songpo. In 1897, he entered Shiwu School, where he learned from Liang Qichao and Tang Caichang. He later went to Japan to study. He took part in the uprising of the Self-Support Army, and joined Chinese United League. After the Revolution of 1911, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Military Government of Yunan.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal was born on December 31, 1908 in Buczacz, in what is now the Lvov Oblast section of the Ukraine. When Wiesenthal's father was killed in World War I, Mrs. Wiesenthal took her family and fled to Vienna for a brief period, returning to Buczacz when she remarried. The young Wiesenthal graduated from the Gymnasium in 1928 and applied for admission to the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov.
- Titanium Man
Titanium Man (II) During one of the occasions when Boris Bullski, the original Titanium Man , was in hiding, the Soviet Union saw a need for more techno warriors and commissioned the Gremlin to design and build another suit of armor, based on the original T-Man specs. But, almost as if the name is cursed, things didn’t work out much better for the second T-Man.
- Michael Nyman
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- Matt Phillips
- Just As Deng Xiaoping
Just as Deng Xiaoping was the first to articulate the Four Cardinal Principles, he was the first to propose and insist that China undertake reform, adopt an open policy and invigorate the economy. Ever since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, he has been actively promoting the reform. Because 80 per cent of China's population lives in the countryside, it was there that the reform was to begin.
- Ernst Reuter
Ernst Reuter , one of the most illustrious among the social and legal reformers who took refuge in Turkey, was born in 1889 in Apenrade (Aabenraa today), Denmark. He joined Germany’s Social Democratic Party in 1912. Reuter was conscripted into the army during the First World War, was wounded in 1916 and interned in a Russian prisoner of war camp that year. This was to be his first, but not his last internment. The Bolshevik revolution began while he was still in the camp.
- Christopher Kondek
Christopher Kondek has been creating video for performance for over 10 years. In 1989 he became an Associated Member of the New York multimedia company The Wooster Group, where he created video for the Group's theatre works: Brace Up! , Fish Story, Emperor Jones , and The Hairy Ape . He also recently completed a new video work based on The Emperor Jones which opened the 1999 Lincoln Center Video Festival.
- Louise Michel
Louise Michel : What I ask of you, you who style yourselves a court-martial, who proclaim yourselves my judges, who do not hide yourselves like the Commission of Pardons, is the field of Satory, where our brothers have already fallen. I must be cut off from society; you have been told to do so. Well, the Commissar of the Republic is right. Since it seems that every heart which beats for liberty has only right to a little lead, I too demand my part.
- Boris Bullski
Boris Bullski While in exile in the frozen wilds of Siberia, Commissar Boris Bullski, a.k.a. Bullski the Merciless, a vicious Soviet officer, created the Titanium Man armor to defeat the American hero Iron Man. Ruthless and brutal, Bullski was the original T-Man, a worthy nemesis for Shellhead for decades.
- Chief Commissar Iliev
Chief Commissar Iliev was born in Trastenik, near Pleven, on August 7th 1961. He graduated from the University of Veliko Tarnovo with a degree in History sciences.
- Kim Il-Sung
Kim Il-sung ( 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994 ) was the North Korean Communist leader from its founding in early 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il . He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death. He was also the General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea where he exercised autocratic power.
- Paulus Surrendered To Soviet Forces I True
Paulus became commander of the German Sixth Army in January 1942 and led the drive on Stalingrad . Paulus followed Adolf Hitler 's orders to hold the Army's position in Stalingrad under all circumstances, despite the fact that the army had been encircled by strong Russian formations.
- Clark Field
Clark Field , Japanese Raid on (8 December 1941) Commissar Order (13 May 1941)