Boris Souvarine
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Boris Souvarine, also known as Varine, was a French Marxist, communist activist, essayist and journalist.
Portrait of Boris Souvarine
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.
C. L. R. James
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Cyril Lionel Robert James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist, and Marxist writer. His works are influential in various
Boris Souvarine
…Stalin and Stalinism. Souvarine also criticised Lenin. His criticisms of Stalinism were important sources for some less orthodox Trotskyists, such as C. L. R. James, who translated his Stalin biography into English. In 1976, declining health forced him to abandon his position at the Institute of Social History. He…
James in 1938