List of Communists Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
This is a list of the major figures of the ideology of Communism who are so self-identified. It does not include figures of Evolutionary Socialism or Anarcho-socialism, who also accepted some of Marx's tenets. For a broader list of all socialists, see List of socialists.
- Man Mohan Adhikari (1920-1999, Nepal)
- Yuri Andropov (1914-1984, USSR)
- Julio Anguita (1941-, Spain)
- Bob Avakian (?, USA)
- Hardial Bains (1939-1997, Canada)
- Vladimir Bakarić (1912-1983, Yugoslavia)
- Jyoti Basu (1914-, India)
- Lavrenty Beria (1899-1953, USSR)
- Enrico Berlinguer (1922-1984, Italy)
- Norman Bethune (1890-1939, Canada)
- Bolesław Bierut; (1892-1956, Poland)
- Maurice Bishop (1944-1983, Grenada)
- Amadeo Bordiga (1889-1970, Italy)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982, USSR)
- Earl Browder (1891-1973, USA)
- Tim Buck (1891-1973, Canada)
- Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938, USSR)
- James P. Cannon (1890-1974, USA)
- Santiago Carrillo (1918-, Spain)
- Carlos Carvalhas (1941, Portugal)
- Fidel Castro (1926-, Cuba)
- Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989, Romania)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1911-1985, USSR)
- Horloogiyn Choybalsan (1895-1952, Mongolia)
- James Connolly (1868-1916, Ireland)
- Álvaro Cunhal (1913-, Portugal)
- Pushpa Kamal Dahal (b. ?, Nepal)
- Angela Davis (1944-, USA)
- Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997, PRC)
- Eugene Dennis (1905-1961, USA)
- Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949, Bulgaria)
- Milovan Đilas; (1911-1997, Yugoslavia)
- Aleksandr Dugin (1962-, Russia)
- Rajani Palme Dutt (1896-1974, United Kingdom)
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895, Germany)
- William Z. Foster (1891-1961, USA)
- William Gallacher (1881-1965, United Kingdom)
- John Gates (1913-, USA)
- Edward Gierek (1913-2001, Poland)
- Władysław Gomułka; (1905-1982, Poland)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1930-, USSR)
- Klement Gottwald (1896-1953, Czechoslovakia)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937, Italy)
- Ted Grant (1913-, United Kingdom)
- Che Guevara (1928-1967, Argentina)
- Abimael Guzmán (1934-, Peru)
- Gus Hall (1910-2000, USA)
- Chris Hani (1942-1993, South Africa)
- Erich Honecker (1912-1994, GDR)
- Enver Hoxha (1908-1985, Albania)
- Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969, Vietnam)
- Hu Jintao (1942-, PRC)
- Robert Hue (1946-, France)
- Gustáv Husák (1913-1991, Czechoslovakia)
- Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989, Spain)
- Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-, Poland)
- Jiang Zemin (1926-, PRC)
- János Kádár (1912-1989, Hungary)
- Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991, USSR)
- Edvard Kardelj (1910-1979, Yugoslavia)
- Babrak Karmal (1929-1996, Afghanistan)
- Kaysone Phomvihan (1920-1992, Laos)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971, USSR)
- Kim Il-sung (1912-1994, DPRK)
- Kim Jong-il (1942-, DPRK)
- Béla Kun (1886-1939, Hungary)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924, USSR)
- Daniel De Leon (1852-1914, USA)
- Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919, Germany)
- Luigi Longo (1900-1980, Italy)
- Jay Lovestone (1897-1990, USA)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919, Germany)
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976, PRC)
- A.A. MacLeod (Canada)
- Georgy Malenkov (1902-1988, USSR)
- Georges Marchais (1920-1997, France)
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979, Germany)
- Sam Marcy (1911-1998, USA)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883, Germany)
- Govan Mbeki (1910-2001, South Africa)
- Anastas Mikoyan (1895-1978, USSR)
- Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986, USSR)
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909-1998, India)
- Agostinho Neto (1922-1979, Angola)
- Dorise Nielson (1902-1980, Canada)
- Abdullah Öcalan (1949-, Turkey)
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960, United Kingdom)
- Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960, Netherlands)
- Ana Pauker (1893-1960, Romania)
- Jacob Penner (1880-1965, Canada)
- Phil Piratin (1907-, United Kingdom)
- Harry Pollitt (1890-1960, United Kingdom)
- Pol Pot (1925-1998, Cambodia)
- Luís Carlos Prestes (1898-1990, Brazil)
- Mátyás Rákosi (1892-1971, Hungary)
- Fernando Rosas (1946-, Portugal)
- Fred Rose, (1907-1983), Canada)
- J.B. Salsberg (1903-1998, Canada)
- Max Shachtman (1904-1972, USA)
- Joe Slovo (1926-1995, South Africa)
- Maurice Spector (1898-1968, Canada)
- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, USSR)
- Ta Mok (1926-, Cambodia)
- Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944, Germany)
- Maurice Thorez (1900-1964, France)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980, SFRY)
- Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964, Italy)
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1936, USSR)
- Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal (1916-1991, Mongolia)
- Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973, Germany)
- Eric Wolf (1923-1999, United States)
- Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1901-1949, Iraq)
- Todor Zhivkov (1911-1998, Bulgaria)
- Gennady Zyuganov (1944-, Russian Federation)
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