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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, led India’s struggle for independence from British rule. His philos...

India Organizer 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.8 Brilliant

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Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar was a 19th-century general and revolutionary instrumental in achieving independence for Venezuela and othe...

19TH Century General Venezuela Independence

9.4 Excellent

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Toussaint Louverture

Toussaint Louverture was a brilliant military strategist and leader during the Haitian Revolution. He formerly enslaved,...

18TH Century General Haiti Haitian

9.2 Excellent

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José de San Martín

José de San Martín was a 19th-century military leader instrumental in South American independence movements. He spearhea...

19TH Century General Argentina Independence

9.2 Excellent

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a pivotal figure in modern history. He led the Turkish nationalist movement that established t...

Turkey 20TH Century Turkish Founder

9.2 Excellent

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was a pivotal American civil rights activist. Her courageous refusal to yield her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala...

American Activist 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.2 Excellent

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Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean nationalist who founded the PAIGC in 1956 and led the struggle aga...

20TH Century Theorist Anti Colonial Guinea Bissau

8.4 Great

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Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian anarchist theorist who split with Marx in the First International and helped shape collect...

Russia 19TH Century Anarchist Theorist

8.2 Great

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Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian geographer and anarchist theorist whose 1902 book Mutual Aid argued cooperation was centra...

Russia 19TH Century Mutual Aid Anarchist

8.1 Great

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Subcomandante Marcos

Subcomandante Marcos is the Mexican Zapatista spokesman who helped launch the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, on 1 Jan...

Contemporary Indigenous Mexico Zapatista

8.0 Great

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French thinker who called property theft in 1840 and became the first major theorist to cal...

France 19TH Century Anarchist Theorist

7.8 Good

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Georgi Plekhanov

Russian philosopher Georgi Plekhanov is recognized as the father of Russian Marxism, co-founding the Emancipation of Lab...

Russian Marxist Theorist 19TH 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Russian radical philosopher and writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky profoundly influenced the nation's socialist movement throu...

Russian 19TH Century Writer Socialist

7.6 Good

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Apolinario Mabini

Apolinario Mabini was a Filipino revolutionary thinker and statesman who shaped the 1899 First Philippine Republic and h...

19TH Century Philippines Independence Theorist

7.2 Good

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who was executed during Stalin's...

Russian 20TH Century Theorist Martyr

7.2 Good

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Comandanta Ramona

Comandanta Ramona was an indigenous Tzotzil Zapatista leader in Mexico, known for leading the EZLN's 1994 San Cristóbal...

Contemporary Indigenous Mexico Woman

7.0 Good

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Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka was an Indonesian Marxist revolutionary whose writings shaped anti-colonial thought and who was killed during...

20TH Century Indonesia Theorist Communist

6.9 Fair

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Ali Shariati

Ali Shariati was an Iranian sociologist and political thinker whose lectures in the 1960s and 1970s influenced revolutio...

20TH Century Islamic Iranian Iran

6.9 Fair

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Régis Debray

French Marxist theorist who accompanied Che Guevara's Bolivian guerrilla force in 1967, was captured and imprisoned, and...

French 20TH Century Marxist Theorist

6.7 Fair

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Sergey Nechayev

Sergey Nechayev was a Russian revolutionary conspirator whose 1869 Catechism of a Revolutionary influenced debates on po...

Russia 19TH Century Radical Nihilist

5.5 Mediocre