Alfred Rosmer was an American-born French communist political activist and historian who was a leading member of the Comintern. Rosmer is best remembered as a political associate of Leon Trotsky and a
Portrait of Rosmer by Isaak Brodsky, 1920
Boris Souvarine, also known as Varine, was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist and journalist.
Souvarine was strongly affected by World War I.
Following the October Revolution, Maxim Gorky employed Souvarine as a correspondent for Novaya Zhizn.
Souvarine's motion at the SFIO's Tours Congress founded what is today the French Communist Party.