Arben Dawitian
Arben Abramowitsch Dawitijan , also Dawtjan , called Tarow (* 1895 in Shusha , Gouvernement Elizavetpol, Russian Empire; † February 21, 1944 in Mont Valérien ) was an Armenian-Russian revolutionary.
Dawitian joined the Bolsheviks in 1912 . In the Russian Civil War he was the Commissar of the Red Army in the Caucasus. In the 1920s he was part of the Left Opposition to Stalinism . In 1927 he was expelled from the party and banned. In 1931 he was sentenced to three years in prison. In 1934 he managed to escape to Persia , where he informed the international Trotskyist movement about the situation in the Soviet Union . With her help he was able to move to Paris. After the occupation of France by the Germans he joined under the name Armenak Manoukian the group Manouchian of Resistance to. He was arrested in November 1943 and shot by the German occupiers in 1944.
Web links
- Biographical information from Mehring-Verlag
- Short biography in the Marxists Internet Archive (French)
- Further short biography, with picture (French)
- Data from the Marina Tsvetaeva Museum (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dawitian, Arben |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tavitian; Tarov; Manoukian, Armenak; Dav'tian, Arben Abramovitch; Давтян, Арбен Абрамович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian-Russian revolutionary, Trotskyist and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shusha , Elizavetpol Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1944 |
| Place of death | Mont Valérien , France |