Pierre Broué

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Pierre Broué (left, 1970)

Pierre Broué (born May 8, 1926 in Privas , Ardèche , † July 27, 2005 in Grenoble ) was a French historian, author and Trotskyist .

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Broué fought in the Second World War as a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the Resistance against the German occupiers. When Stalin dissolved the Comintern in 1943, he left the PCF. Broué confessed to Trotskyism early on and thus became a member of the Communiste Internationaliste organization , from which he was expelled in 1989. He later sympathized with the International Marxist Tendency . In 1978 he founded the Leon Trotsky Institute (ILT for short - Institut Léon Trotsky ) and published the French edition of the Trotsky Works. In total, Broué published more than 20 books, including a two-volume biography of Trotsky (1988) and a work on the Spanish Civil War.

The Berlin historian Andreas Oberender said of Broué's biography of Trotsky : “It is held in a tone of naive, ingratiating admiration that embarrasses every reader; In the preface the author expresses seriously hope in the course of reading will the reader Trotsky, learn to love it. ' "The historian Hermann Weber , however, ruled that due to the wealth of material presented and the glossy presentation she was a very meritorious work, that would bring insight and profit to anyone interested in history.

Pierre Broué was a professor at the Institute for Political Studies at the University of Grenoble . Before that he worked as a teacher. He was married three times and the father of five children, including the mathematician Michel Broué .

Works (selection)

  • (with Emile Témime ) La Révolution et la guerre d'Espagne. Minuit, Paris 1961. German edition: Revolution and War in Spain. History of the Spanish Civil War. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Révolution en Allemagne, 1917–1923. Minuit, Paris 1971. German edition: The German Revolution 1918–1923. Verlag Neuer Kurs, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87786-102-4 .
  • Trotsky. Fayard, Paris 1988. German edition: Trotsky: A political biography. 2 volumes. Neuer ISP-Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-929008-33-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online (accessed June 6, 2011)
  2. ↑ http://www.wsws.org/de/articles/2011/11/webe-n26.html
personal data
SURNAME Broué, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, Trotskyist, historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Privas , Ardèche
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2005
Place of death Grenoble , France