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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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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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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was a nineteenth-century Italian general and nationalist leader. His leadership during the 1860 Exped...

Italian Italy 19TH Century General

9.0 Excellent

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Miguel Hidalgo

Miguel Hidalgo was a Mexican priest whose 1810 Grito de Dolores began Mexico's war of independence against Spanish colon...

19TH Century Mexico Independence Rebel

8.6 Great

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Antonio José de Sucre

Antonio José de Sucre was a Venezuelan general under Bolívar who won the 1824 Battle of Ayacucho, securing Peru's indepe...

19TH Century General Venezuela Independence

8.6 Great

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary who led the Red Army after 1917, opposed Stalin from exile, and was assassinate...

Russia 20TH Century Marxist Commander

8.6 Great

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José Rizal

Jose Rizal was a Filipino writer and reformist whose 1896 execution by Spanish authorities helped inspire the Philippine...

19TH Century Philippines Writer Independence

8.5 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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Vasil Levski

Vasil Levski was a Bulgarian revolutionary who built an internal network against Ottoman rule and was executed in Sofia...

Organizer 19TH Century Bulgarian Bulgaria

8.0 Great

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Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen was a Russian émigré writer who published The Bell in London from 1857, influencing populist and social...

Russia Russian 19TH Century Writer

7.8 Good

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Manuela Sáenz

Manuela Sáenz was an Ecuadorian revolutionary who aided Bolívar's campaigns and helped save him from an assassination at...

Organizer 19TH Century Independence Ecuador

7.7 Good

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Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez

Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez was a Mexican conspirator whose warning helped trigger the 1810 Hidalgo revolt against Spanish...

Organizer 19TH Century Mexico Independence

7.6 Good

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Gotse Delchev

Gotse Delchev was a revolutionary organizer in Ottoman Macedonia and a leader of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople move...

Organizer 19TH Century Ottoman Macedonian

7.3 Good

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Sophia Perovskaya

Sophia Perovskaya was a Russian socialist revolutionary who belonged to the Narodnaya Volya group and helped orchestrate...

Russian 19TH Century Feminist Martyr

6.8 Fair

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Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich was a Russian revolutionary who shot official Fyodor Trepov in 1878, was acquitted, and later helped found...

Russia Russian 19TH Century Marxist

6.6 Fair

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Sofia Perovskaya

Sofia Perovskaya was a Russian Narodnaya Volya organizer who helped plan the 1881 assassination of Tsar Alexander II and...

Russia Organizer 19TH Century Populist

6.6 Fair

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Maria Spiridonova

Maria Spiridonova was a Russian Socialist Revolutionary who assassinated official G. N. Luzhenovsky in 1906 and later le...

Russia Organizer 20TH Century Socialist Revolutionary

6.6 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