Eastern European Communists- Set 2 People

Key Figures 13-22

Alexander Dubcek

(Czechoslovakia)

Leader of Prague Spring (1968)

“Socialism with a Human Face”

Removed after Warsaw Pact invasion

Wladyslaw Gomulka

(Poland)

Led Post Stalin Polish thaw (1956)

Initially popular, later repressive

Removed during worker unrest in 1970

Klement Gottwald

(Czechoslovakia)

First communist Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia

Led 1948 Czech coup, turning country into a one-party state.

Died shortly after Stalin

Erich Honecker

(East Germany)

Leader from 1971-1989

Oversaw Berlin Wall repression and decline

Ousted before reunification

Enver Hoxha

(Albania)

Stalinist Dictator; broke with USSR and China

Albania= isolated, totalitarian state

Wojciech Jaruzelski

(Poland)

Declared martial law in 1981 to crush solidarity

Last communist leader of Poland

Transitioned power peacefully in 1989

Walter Ulbricht

(East Germany)

Ordered Berlin Wall construction (1961)

Strict Stalinist; removed by Honecker

Josip Broz Tito

(Yugoslavia)

Broke with Stalin in 1948

Led the Non-Aligned movement

Held Yugoslavia together until his death in 1980.

Imre Nagy

(Hungary)

Prime Minister during Hungarian Uprising (1956)

Wanted to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact

Executed after Soviet invasion

Nicolae Ceausescu

(Romania)

Ruled with a brutal cult-of-personality dictatorship

Opposed Soviet control; charted independent path

Executed after 1989 revolution