Mark Zborowski
Mark Zborowski (born January 27, 1908 in Uman , † April 30, 1990 in San Francisco ) was a Ukrainian-American anthropologist and NKVD agent.
Life
Zborowski was born in 1908 into a Jewish family in Ukraine . According to his own statement, his parents fled to Poland in 1921 because of the consequences of the Russian October Revolution . As a student, Zborowski joined the Communist Party of Poland against the will of his parents . Because of his political activity he was arrested, whereupon he fled to Berlin, where he could not find work. He then moved to France, studied anthropology at the University of Grenoble and settled in Paris.
In Paris, from 1933, Zborowski worked under the name Etienne as a Soviet spy in the ranks of the Trotskyist movement in France. His reports were read personally by Stalin . He is considered to be involved in the murder of Erwin Wolf and Ignaz Reiss in 1937, as well as Leo Sedow and Rudolf Klement in 1938.
After Sedov's death, Zborowski was the editor and editor of the "Bulletin of the Opposition". In September 1938 he introduced Ramón Mercader to the Trotskyist Sylvia Ageloff , which in 1940 gave him access to Leon Trotsky and made possible the fatal assassination attempt on him.
Zborowski received a diploma as a specialist in ethnology at the Sorbonne and successfully carried out anthropological research. In 1941 he emigrated to the USA, where he continued his work as an agent against the Fourth International . He was exposed in the 1950s and had to testify before a Senate Homeland Security Committee. In 1962 he was convicted of perjury and was imprisoned for two years.
After his release, he resumed his academic career and published the 1969 study People in Pain , in which reactions to pain sensations in different cultures are compared. He moved to San Francisco where he was appointed director of the Pain Center at Mount Zion Hospital.
Zborowski died wealthy in the United States in 1990.
Publications
- (with Elizabeth Herzog) Life is with People. 1952
- dt. The shtetl. The lost world of the Eastern European Jews. Munich, CH Beck, 1991
- People in Pain. 1969
literature
- Vadim S. Rogovin : World Revolution and World War. Mehring 2002, ISBN 3886340821
Web links
- Literature by and about Mark Zborowski in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ wsws.org: The story of Mark Zborowski: Stalin's spy in the Fourth International
- ↑ marxist.net: Forty Years Since Leon Trotsky's Assassination
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zborowski, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-American anthropologist and NKVD agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uman , Ukraine, Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1990 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |