Influential Communist Leaders

• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Theory, 19th century)
• Vladimir Lenin (Soviet, 1917)
• Joseph Stalin (Soviet, 1924)
• Leon Trotsky (Soviet/USA, 1924)
• Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam, 1923)
• Kim II-Sung (Korea, 1948)
• Mao Zedong (1949)
• Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959)
• Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975)