Souvarine, Boris

Russian-born French journalist and author; French communist leader, 1919-1924.

From the description of Boris Souvarine papers, 1925-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870794

Russian-born (1895-1984) as Boris Lifschitz, Boris Souvarine was a founder of the French Communist Party and a French Bolshevik delegate to the Comintern until expelled in the mid-1920s. In 1935 he published a biography of Joseph Stalin and for the next sixty years he was a leading Sovietologist and anti-communist, founder of L'Institut d'Histoire Sociale, as well as an author, editor, historian, journalist and publisher.

From the description of Boris Souvarine papers, 1915-1984 (inclusive), 1940-1984 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612452684

Pseudonym of Boris Konstantinovič Lifšic; born in Kiev 1895; his family moved to Paris c. 1900, where he died in 1984; joined the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO) towards 1914; his contributions, sharply worded and signed S̀ouvarine', attracted attention quickly; opposed the French socialist war effort; one of the French activists of the Third International; until 1924 one of the most important spokesmen for the Parti Communiste Français (PCF) and its representative in the Executive Committee of the COMINTERN; left the communist movement in 1924 because of its anti-Trotsky campaign; broke with the Trotskyists latter around 1929; evolved towards a moderate socialist position; thereafter he chiefly published commentaries on current affairs in the Soviet Union in periodicals, which he edited himself; in 1935 he published his magnum opus S̀talin. Aperçu historique du bolchévisme'.

From the description of Archives (1897- ) 1939-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82747266