swap_horiz Imre Nagy Alternatives

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Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was a key figure in 20th-century Vietnam. He spearheaded the Vietnamese communist movement, ultimately leadi...

20TH Century Vietnam Leader Communist

8.9 Great

2

Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito remains a pivotal figure in 20th-century history. He spearheaded the Yugoslav Partisans’ resistance agai...

20TH Century Leader Partisan Yugoslav

8.7 Great

3

Vo Nguyen Giap

Vo Nguyen Giap was a Vietnamese general who commanded the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and later directed...

20TH Century General Vietnam Communist

8.3 Great

4

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary executed by the British in 1931 after the Lahore Conspiracy Case made...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

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Chris Hani

Chris Hani was a South African communist and anti-apartheid leader who served as chief of staff of the ANC's armed wing...

South Africa ANC 20TH Century Anti Apartheid

8.2 Great

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Alexander Dubček

Alexander Dubček was a Czechoslovakian political leader whose actions during 1968 significantly impacted Eastern Europe....

20TH Century Leader Reformist Czechoslovak

8.1 Great

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Bram Fischer

Bram Fischer was a 20th-century South African lawyer renowned for his defense of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid...

20TH Century South African Lawyer Communist

8.1 Great

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Ruth First

South African anti-apartheid activist and journalist assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by South African securit...

20TH Century South African Feminist Martyr

7.9 Good

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Zhu De

Zhu De was a Chinese Communist commander and Red Army founder who led forces through the Long March and later served as...

China 20TH Century Commander Communist

7.7 Good

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Joe Slovo

South African anti-apartheid activist Joe Slovo led the Umkhonto we Sizwe armed wing and became the first white member o...

Military 20TH Century South African Communist

7.7 Good

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Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao was a Chinese Marxist scholar at Peking University, a co-founder of the Communist Party in 1921, and was execu...

China Intellectual 20TH Century Founder

7.6 Good

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Chen Duxiu

Chen Duxiu was a Chinese intellectual who founded New Youth in 1915 and became the first general secretary of the Chines...

China Intellectual 20TH Century Founder

7.5 Good

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Farabundo Martí

Farabundo Martí was a Salvadoran communist organizer tied to the 1932 peasant uprising against the Martínez regime in El...

Organizer 20TH Century Uprising El Salvador

7.4 Good

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Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin was a Chinese feminist, poet, and anti-Qing revolutionary, executed in 1907 after a failed uprising linked to he...

China 20TH Century Feminist Martyr

7.3 Good

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Dolores Ibárruri

Dolores Ibárruri was a Spanish Communist leader and Republican orator during the Spanish Civil War, later leading the PC...

Spain 20TH Century Orator Anti Fascist

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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Mehdi Ben Barka

Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka led the radical wing of the National Union of Popular Forces before his infamous, st...

20TH Century Moroccan Pan African Socialist

7.2 Good

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Julio Antonio Mella

Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella co-founded the original Cuban Communist Party in 1925 and remains a celebrated m...

Student Cuban 20TH Century Martyr

7.0 Good

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Liu Shaoqi

Chinese Communist leader who served as President of China from 1959 until being purged and dying in detention during the...

20TH Century Chinese Communist Reformist

6.5 Fair

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Władysław Gomułka

Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka guided Poland through a period of de-Stalinization in 1956, briefly raising ho...

Polish 20TH Century Leader Communist

6.4 Fair