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.
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Education, as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout h
Boris Souvarine
…sources for some less orthodox Trotskyists, such as C. L. R. James, who translated his Stalin biography into English. Portrait of Souvarine (left) and Anatoly Lunacharsky In 1976, declining health forced him to abandon his position at the Institute of Social History. He died in Paris on 1 November 1984. Works Original…
Lunacharsky, People's Commissar for Education, at the 13th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, April 1927
Lunacharsky alongside Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1924