- Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born December 21, 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the fourth generation leadership of the People's Republic of China.
- Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury is an Indian politician, member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was born on 12 August, 1952 in an Andhra Brahmin family hailing from Kakinada. After school education in Hyderabad, he had to move to Delhi due to disruption of academic life as a result of the Telengana movement in 1969. At Delhi, in 1970 he completed Higher Secondary (one Year Course) standing first in the All India merit list.
- Jyoti Basu
Jyoti Basu (born July 8, 1914) is a Communist politician from West Bengal, India. Basu is a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and, as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977-2000, was India's longest-serving Chief Minister.
- Leon Trotsky
"' (– August 21 1940), born Leon Davidovich Bronstein"', was a Ukrainian-born Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo.
- Luo Gan
Luo Gan (罗干) (born July 1935) is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and Political and Legislative Affairs Committee secretary of the People's Republic of China. Luo Gan was born in Shandong province and studied engineering at the Beijing Steel and Iron Institute. Luo joined the Communist Party of China in 1960.
- 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.
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (born March 1 1944) is an Indian Communist politician, who has served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal (India) since November 6, 2000. He is also a member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- Lev Kamenev
"'"' (– August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and a founding member (1919) and later chairman (1923-1924) of the ruling Politburo. Kamenev was born in Moscow, the son of a Jewish railway worker and a Russian Orthodox housewife.
- Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho (October 14, 1911 - October 13, 1990) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician. Le Duc Tho was born Phan Dinh Khai (Phan Đình Khải) in the Nam Ha province of Vietnam. In 1930, Le Duc Tho helped found the Indochinese Communist Party. French colonial authorities imprisoned him from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1939 to 1944. After his release in 1945 he helped lead the Viet Minh, …
- Mikhail Suslov
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: "Михаил Андреевич Суслов"; November 21, 1902 - January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman and ideologist, and a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - having joined the party in 1921. Mikhail Suslov was born in the village of Shakhovskoye (Шаховское) in the Khvalynsk district of the Saratov oblast, …
- Baburam Bhattarai
Dr. Baburam Bhattarai (born 26 May 1954) is a Nepalese communist. He is a senior Standing Committee Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). He is considered to be the second-in-command of the CPN-Maoists, after Prachanda. He is also the Head of the International Department of the Party, and Convener of United Revolutionary People's Council, Nepal, an embryonic Central People's Government Organizing Committee.
- Nguyen Chi Thanh
Nguyen Chi Thanh (1914 - 1967) was from 1965 until his death the commanding general of North Vietnamese operations in South Vietnam. He presented plans for the Tet offensive to the North Vietnamese Politburo, but did not survive to see them put into action.
- 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.
- Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician, Communist Party leader and close collaborator of Joseph Stalin. He briefly became leader of the Soviet Union (from March to September 1953) after Stalin's death and was Premier of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955. Named as candidate for the Politburo, Malenkov joined in 1946. Although Malenkov fell out of favour in place of his rivals Andrei Zhdanov and Lavrentiy Beria, he soon came back into Stalin's favour, …
- Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (June 3, 1946) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
- Jiang Yanyong
Jiang Yanyong (Traditional Chinese: 蔣彥永, Simplified Chinese: 蒋彦永, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiǎng Yànyǒng, Wade-Giles: Chiang Yen-yung) (born 4 October 1931) is a Chinese physician from Beijing who publicized a coverup of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China. He is a senior member of the Communist Party of China, and as a military doctor holds a rank within the People's Liberation Army which is equivalent to Major General.
- Bo Yibo
Bo Yibo, (February 17, 1908 - January 15, 2007) was a Chinese politician and one of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party of China. He was alternate member and then member of the Politburo, deputy prime minister, chairman of State Economic Commission and vice-chairman of Central Advisory Commission of the Communist Party of China. Joining the Communist Party of China when he was seventeen, …
- Nikolai Podgorny
Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (January 12, 1983) was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977. An engineer, trained at the Technological Institute of the Food Industry in Kiev, he became deputy commissar of the Ukrainian food industry before entering the official ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1950.
- Nikolai Ryzhkov
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov was a Soviet official and, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a Russian politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (or Premier of the Soviet Union) from September 27, 1985 to January 14, 1991 during the era of glasnost and perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev. A technocrat, Ryzhkov rose through the ranks first as a welder at the "Sverdlovsk Uralmash Plant" and then as chief engineer and, in 1970-1975, …
- Vladimir Kryuchkov
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov is a former Soviet politician and a Communist Party member since 1944. Kryuchkov joined the Soviet diplomatic service, stationed in Hungary until 1959. He then worked for the Communist Party Central Committee for eight years, before joining the KGB in 1967 together with his patron Yuri Andropov. He was appointed head of the First Chief Directorate (FCD) in 1974 (the KGB Foreign Operations) and Deputy Chairman in 1978.
- Günter Schabowski
Günter Schabowski was an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the ruling party during most of the existence of the German Democratic Republic. Schabowski gained worldwide fame in November 1989 for accidentally beginning the destruction of the inner German border, including the Berlin Wall. Schabowski was born in Anklam, Pomerania (now part of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
- Zhang Wentian
Zhang Wentian (1900-July 1, 1976), also known as Luo Fu, was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1935 to March 20, 1943. A native of Pudong Shanghai, Zhang joined the CPC in 1925 and was sent to study at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, which was set up under Kuomintang's founder Sun Yat-sen's policy of alliance between the Soviet Union and CPC to train Chinese revolutionaries and named after him.
- Chen Boda
Chen Boda was born 1904 in Hui'an (Fujian province, China) and died on 20 September 1989 in Beijing. He was a communist organizer who participated in the 1926–1927 Northern Expedition and later went to Moscow to study for four years. In 1930, Chen Boda returned to China to teach in Beijing. From 1937 on, he worked as a teacher in Yan'an.
- Grigory Romanov
Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov (scientific transliteration: Grigorij Vasil'evič Romanov; no relation to the former Russian imperial family bearing the same surname), born 7 February 1923, was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CPSU. In 1985, he was considered Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle.
- Valentin Pavlov
Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (Russian: Валентин Сергеевич Павлов; September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August 1991. He was one of the leaders of the August Coup that attempted to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
- Choummaly Sayasone
Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (born March 6, 1936 in Attapu) is president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and general secretary (leader) of the communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party since March 21, 2006. He was elected general secretary on that date by the party's 8th Congress. He previously served as defense minister. Formerly vice president of the country, he was officially appointed president on June 8, 2006, replacing Khamtai Siphandon, …
- Petar Mladenov
Petar Toshev Mladenov (22 August 1936 – 31 May 2000) was a Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician. Mladenov was born to a peasant family in the village of Toshevtsi, Vidin district. His father was an anti-fascist partisan killed in action in 1944. He graduated from a military school, entered Sofia State University, and graduated from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in 1963.
- Ramiz Alia
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 after Hoxha died. Alia was born in 1925 and had joined the Albanian communist movement before he was twenty years old. He had risen rapidly under Hoxha's patronage and by 1961 was a full member of the ruling Political Bureau (Politburo) of the Albanian Party of Labor (APL).
- Arnaud de Borchgrave
Arnaud de Borchgrave (1926-) is an American journalist who specializes in international politics. He is currently editor at large of "The Washington Times" and of United Press International. Born in Belgium to a Belgian count, de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States. He served the British Royal Navy from 1942 to 1946, volunteering at the age of 15. In 1947, he was appointed Brussels bureau chief for United Press International, …
- Viktor Grishin
Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (September 5(18), 1914-May 25, 1992) was a Soviet politician. He was a Candidate (1961-1971) and Full Member of the CPSU Politburo. Grishin was born in Serpukhov, Moscow region. In 1938-1940 he served in the Red Army. From 1941 Grishin was a Communist Party functionary. He rose to be the leader of the Communist Party in the city of Moscow (1967-1985) He was known for his hardline stance.
- Tran van Tra
Tran Van Tra was the military leader of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam; a member of the Central Committee of the Lao Dong Party; a lieutenant general in the army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam); chairman, Military Affairs Committee of the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN), 1964-1976; and minister of Defense in the Provisional Revolutionary Government, 1969-1976.
- 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.
- Hisila Yami
Hisila Yami alias Parvati (born June 25h 1959 i Gorkha District), is a Nepalese politician and architect. She is a politburo member of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and a former president of the All Nepal Womens Association (Revolutionary). Yami graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi, India, in 1982. During the 1990 uprising against the panchayat regime, Yami was one of the most high-profile women leaders in the protests.
- Andrei Kirilenko
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (September 8, 1906 - May 12, 1990) was a leading official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the 1970s and early 1980s among the few serving on both the Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU. He was for a while positioned as a potential successor to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, although he was a few months older than Brezhnev.
- Gennady Yanayev
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, Russian politician and statesman. The first and only Vice President of the Soviet Union (1990-91). Yanayev had worked with Komsomol since 1963. In 1968-1970, he held the post of Chairman of the Committee of the Soviet Youth Organizations. Between 1986 and 1990, Yanayev was a secretary, …
- Ramiro Valdés
Ramiro Valdés is a Cuban revolutionary and politician. A veteran of the Cuban Revolution, Valdés fought along side Fidel Castro in the attack on the Moncada barracks in 1953 and was a founding member of the 26th of July Movement. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba since October 1965, and has held many important governmental posts, including Interior Minister and Vice-Prime Minister.
- Dmitry Yazov
Dmitri Timofeyevich Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1979-1980, Yazov was a commander of the Central Army Group. He held the post of Soviet Defense Minister from May 1987. In 1987-1990, Yazov was a candidate for membership in Politburo. During the August Coup of 1991, Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he was prosecuted and acquitted in 1994.
- Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky (17 February 1918 - 17 February 1990) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989. One of the most influential figures in the Soviet Union, a member of Soviet politburo since 1971, he was a close ally to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His rule of Ukraine was characterized by the expanded policies of Russification and fierce suppression of dissent.
- Solomon Lozovsky
Solomon Lozovsky (1878-1952) was a Russian Jewish revolutionary, a colleague of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and a prominent official in the Soviet government and Soviet trade unions and the head of Soviet Information Bureau. He was also the chair of the department of International Relations at the Higher Party School. Born in 1878 in the area currently known as Ukraine, he was a member of the Bolshevik (later Communist) party since 1901.
- Horst Sindermann
Horst Sindermann (September 5, 1915 - April 20, 1990) was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (GDR) from 1973 to 1976. Born in Dresden, he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, and spent the Second World War imprisoned. After the war he was a newspaper editor and leader of the Chemnitz and Leipzig branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was a member of the Volkskammer from 1963 to 1969, and its president from 1976 to 1989.