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All Revolutionary and Independence Leaders

A person whose primary and lasting historical significance is leading an armed, popular or organized movement against colonial rule, imperial rule or an existing political order, whether or not that person went on to hold ordinary office afterward. This bucket is defined by the movement a person led, not by whether that movement succeeded quickly or by how the government it produced later turned out, so a founding leader whose later government grew authoritarian, such as Robert Mugabe, is filed here rather than under Military, Coup and Transitional Rulers, for consistency with how this tree treats the whole founding generation of independence leaders, Kenneth Kaunda among them. Belongs here: an independence movement leader such as Mahatma Gandhi, Simon Bolivar, Kwame Nkrumah, Sukarno, Ho Chi Minh, Jomo Kenyatta and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and a revolutionary who overturned an existing domestic order rather than colonial rule, such as Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro and Ruhollah Khomeini, whose Iranian Revolution is the defining act this entity is filed for even though he also became the first Supreme Leader of the theocracy it founded; his office successors who did not themselves lead that founding revolution are filed under Theocratic and Religious-Political Leaders instead. Marcus Garvey, Morvan Marchal and David Lane are filed here as a disclosed, lower confidence placement: the nearest fit among this tree's buckets for leaders of nationalist or pan-nationalist movements that fall short of a full national independence struggle (Pan-Africanism, Breton regionalism), for entities this wave did not have a dedicated bucket for and, for David Lane, did not independently reconfirm the identity behind the entity within this pass's budget; a successor with more research time may find a more precise fit. Does not belong here: a person who reached the same kind of top office through the country's ordinary constitutional or party process rather than by leading a movement against it, filed under Heads of State and Government, and a person who took power through a coup by a standing military rather than a mass independence or revolutionary movement, such as Augusto Pinochet and Joseph Stalin, filed under Military, Coup and Transitional Rulers instead.

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Abdul Aziz Khan Kaka

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Amilcar Cabral

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Arcadio Maxílom

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Aung San

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Brahim Ghali

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Che Guevara

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Daniel Ortega

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David Ben-Gurion

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David Lane

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Edgar Savisaar

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Emiliano Zapata

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Fidel Castro

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Guadalupe Victoria

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Ho Chi Minh

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jomo Kenyatta

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Jose Ramos-Horta

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Jose Rizal

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Julius Nyerere

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Kenneth Kaunda

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Kwame Nkrumah

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Leon Trotsky

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Leopold Sedar Senghor

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Mao Zedong

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Marcus Garvey

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Morvan Marchal

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Mullah Omar

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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Nelson Mandela

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Patrice Lumumba

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Robert Mugabe

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Rubén Berríos

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Ruhollah Khomeini

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Samora Machel

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Simon Bolivar

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Simon Kimbangu

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Sukarno

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Sun Yat-sen

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Tiberius Gracchus

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Toussaint Louverture

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Vere Bird

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Vladimir Lenin

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Xanana Gusmao

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1. American Revolution (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAmerican Revolution, lead section
Quote, American Revolution, lead section
The American Revolution (1765-1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain.
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