French Marxist, communist activist, essayist and journalist
Boris Souvarine
Born
Борис Константинович Лифшиц Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz
1895
Kyiv, Ukraine
Died
1 November 1984 (aged 89)
Paris, France
Nationality
Russian (before 1906), French (since 1906)
Occupation(s)
Activist and journalist
Political party
French Communist Party, Democratic Communist Circle
Partner
Colette Peignot
Boris Souvarine (1 November 1895 – 1 November 1984), also known as Varine, was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist and journalist.
A founding member of the French Communist Party, Souvarine is noted for being the only non-Bolshevik communist to have been a member of all three leading bodies of the Comintern for three years in succession.[1] He famously authored the first biography of Joseph Stalin, published in 1935 as Staline, Aperçu Historique du Bolchévisme (Stalin, Historic Overview of Bolshevism) and kept close correspondence with Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky until their deaths.[2]
His anticonformism and early criticism of Stalin made him break away from the party in 1924. In the decades that followed, Souvarine continued publishing as a leading Sovietologist and anti-Stalinist. He was also the founder of the Institute of Social History and an author, historian, publisher and journalist.[1]
^ ab[1] Archived 2018-07-03 at the Wayback Machine 'Historical Note', Preface to Boris Souvarine Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
^Boris Souvarine, Prologue to La Critique Sociale, Reprinted 1984, March 1984, p. 15
BorisSouvarine (1 November 1895 – 1 November 1984), also known as Varine, was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist and journalist. A founding...
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this privately by Jules Monnerot, and publicly by Patrick Waldberg. BorisSouvarine regarded its publication as a sign of Bataille's acceptance of the...
communists from Doubs, with the support of the Cercle de Souvarine. In 1934, she left BorisSouvarine for Georges Bataille. Victim of an “alleged attack of...
accepted the Third International's 21 Conditions behind Fernand Loriot, BorisSouvarine, Ludovic Frossard, and Marcel Cachin. They did not, however, accept...
in the most tragic moments of the revolution" as the French author BorisSouvarine puts it. The scattered guerrilla resistance continued for several weeks...
Revolution, and The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James, Rudolf Rocker and BorisSouvarine, as well as works by Lewis Mumford. In February 1941, the company launched...
This included Christian Rakovsky, Chairman of the Ukraine Sovnarkom, BorisSouvarine of the French Communist Party and the Central Committee of the Polish...
December 1920, this opinion was supported by the left-wing faction (BorisSouvarine, Fernand Loriot) and the 'centrist' faction (Ludovic-Oscar Frossard...
This included Christian Rakovsky, Chairman of the Ukraine Sovnarkom, BorisSouvarine of the French Communist Party and the Central Committee of the Polish...
Cliff, "Building the Party: Lenin 1893-1914", 2002, ISBN 1-931859-01-9 BorisSouvarine, "Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism", 2005, ISBN 1-4191-1307-0...
during the 1920 Tours Congress when the majority of the SFIO (including BorisSouvarine, Fernand Loriot, etc.) decided to join the Third International, thus...
needed] Queneau also joined the Democratic Communist Circle founded by BorisSouvarine and took up numerous left-wing and anti-fascist causes. He defended...
This included Christian Rakovsky, Chairman of the Ukraine Sovnarkom, BorisSouvarine of the French Communist Party and the Central Committee of the Polish...
and Marxist circles in the early 1920s, Pierre Kaan was spotted by BorisSouvarine who placed him on the editing board of l'Humanité and shortly thereafter...
Editions Monde nouveau, 1953 (under the pseudonym François Houtisse, with BorisSouvarine) L'Opium des intellectuels, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1955; The Opium of...
leaders of the PCF, until his expulsion in the fall of 1924 along with BorisSouvarine and Monatte for opposing the organised campaign against Trotsky. After...
former French Communist Party member and anti-Stalinist journalist BorisSouvarine, as well as with the Romanian writer Panait Istrati, who had observed...
Stalin, and the party's Central Committee. Radical French writer BorisSouvarine later lauded Riazanov's activity in this period as that of "a conscious...
Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français, PCF), such as BorisSouvarine. He frequented the home of anarchist journalist Séverine and married...
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