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Anarchist partners who made free speech and prison into American literature.

Hungarian Communist official who briefly led the country in the crisis year of 1956.

Soviet security official who directed the NKVD during the early Great Purge.

Bolshevik economist who nationalized banks and later ran Soviet finance.

Comintern envoy who helped the Chinese Communist Party find its first footing.

Old Bolshevik who chaired the Communist International in the Soviet Union’s first years.

Soviet novelist and war correspondent with a hundred titles to his name.

Polish-born journalist who became a rare foreign member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Communist leader who broke with Stalinism and later advised American labor on foreign policy.

South African Communist leader, ANC strategist, and anti-apartheid commander.

American couple convicted of passing wartime secrets to the Soviet Union and executed in 1953.

Soviet official who stood among Stalin’s closest lieutenants.

Revolutionary, theorist, and organizer of the Red Army, later exiled and assassinated.

Old Bolshevik and early Soviet deputy premier, later destroyed in the Great Purge.

Political commissar who carried the Party’s voice into the Red Army.

Soviet diplomat who pushed collective security before the war.

Painter-turned-partisan who helped write Tito’s Yugoslavia.

Swedish banker who built a workers’ bank and later served Soviet finance.

Marxist theorist and revolutionary who co-founded the Spartacus League in Germany.

War correspondent who wrote Life and Fate, a novel the state tried to arrest.

German-Jewish communist deputy who paid for his politics with his life at Buchenwald.

American Communist official and Detroit labor organizer.