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.
Christian Georgiyevich Rakovsky, Bulgarian name Krastyo Georgiev Rakovski, born Krastyo Georgiev Stanchov, was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat and
Front page of Jos Despotizmul!.. ("Down with Despotism!!!"), a special issue of România Muncitoare, entirely dedicated to criticism of the Imperial Russian authorities (February 1905)
From left: Rakovsky, Leon Trotsky, and Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, during a meeting in Bucharest (1913 drawing)
Advertising, Parliamentary elections, 1916
Rakovsky (seated, far right) in Ukraine, 1920