Who is the author of “Naked Russia”? Cover Image

Кто автор «Обнаженной России»?
Who is the author of “Naked Russia”?

Author(s): Tatyana Solomonovna Taimanova, Elizabeta Aleksandrovna Legenkova
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: French Communist Party; Comintern; Bolshevik Russia; history; document; testimony

Summary/Abstract: The article reveals the attitude of the French left intellectuals towards Russian reality of the 1920s. The article focuses on the figure of Boris Souvarine, French communist of Russian-Jewish origin, member of the Communist International, journalist, historian and writer, who was excluded from the Communist Party and became dissident. Together with the French writer of Romanian origin Panaїt Istrati and writer and public figure, Victor Serge (V. L. Kibalchich) they create a documentary fiction which exposes the truth about the Bolshevik Russia.

  • Issue Year: 2/2012
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 147-156
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian