Pierre Broué
| Pierre Broué | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 May 1926 Privas, Ardèche, France |
| Died | 27 July 2005 (aged 79) Grenoble, France |
| Cause of death | Prostate cancer |
| Nationality | French |
| Years active | 1936–2005 |
| Known for | Historian of Leon Trotsky, militant Trotskyist revolutionary |
| Notable work | La Révolution Et La Guerre D'Espagne (1961), Trotsky (1988), Cahiers Leon Trotsky |
| Movement | Fourth International |
| Spouse(s) | three spouses including Andrée (third) |
| Children | five including Michel Broué |
Pierre Broué (8 May 1926 – 27 July 2005) was a French historian and militant Trotskyist revolutionary. His work covers various topics including the history of the Bolshevik Party, the Spanish Revolution and biographical works on Leon Trotsky. "Broué was that rare combination, a scholar-militant."
Broué was born in Privas, Ardèche, around 1926.
His father was a civil servant and mother a school-teacher: they had "strong republican views."
In 1936, Broué supported a French general strike as well as the Spanish Republic.
By 1940, with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in a non-aggression pact, he helped organize a Communist party cell at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. The French Communist Party expelled these organizers; they said Broué suffered from Trotskyism. The accusation piqued his interest, and he began reading about Trotsky from the private library of teacher Élie Reynier.
With the Party, he fought in the French resistance against Nazi occupiers during Second World War.
When Joseph Stalin disbanded the Comintern in 1943, Broué became strongly critical of Stalinism, resigning from the FCP as a result. By 1944, he became a Trotskyist, joined the Fourth International, and remained a Trotskyist for the rest of his life.
In 1952, he followed Pierre Lambert during a split in the movement and continued as a "Lambertist" for many years.
He was active in the Internationalist Communist Party and then the Internationalist Communist Organisation before leaving in 1989.
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