Julián Gorkin
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Julián Gómez García-Ribera, better known as Julián Gorkin (January 1901, Benifairó de les Valls - 8 August 1987, Paris) was a Spanish revolutionary socialist, writer and a central leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during the Spanish Civil War. He was a writer of many books on political and cultural themes, as well as novels and some plays. After the Spanish Civil War, he escaped to Mexico where he became a part of the strong anti-Stalinist socialist community there. He helped obtain visas for Victor Serge and his son Vlady to enter Mexico when they had to escape from the Nazis invading France.
By the time he returned to Paris in 1948 he had become an anti-communist. From 1953 to 1963 (with a brief interlude in 1959) he was editor in Paris of the periodical "Cuadernos" published by the CIA front group Congress for Cultural Freedom".[1]
Political Writings[]
- Canibales politicos (Hitler y Stalin en Espana), Ediciones Quetzal, Mexico, 1941
- Ainsi fut assassiné Trotski, Editions Self, Paris, 1948
- La Vie et la Mort en U.R.S.S., Les Iles d'Or, Paris, 1950
- Comunista en Espana y antistalinista en la U.R.S.S., Editorial Guarania, Mexico, 1952
- Destin du XXe siècle, Les Iles d'Or, Paris, 1954
- Marx y la Russia de ayer y de hoy, Editorial Bases, Buenos Aires, 1956
- España, primer ensayo de democracia popular, Biblioteca de la Libertad, Buenos Aires, 1961
- El Imperio Soviético, Editions Claridad, Buenos Aires, 1969
- L'assassinat de Trotski, Julliard, Paris, 1970, et Livre de Poche, Paris, 1973, Prix Voltaire 1970
- El proceso de Moscú en Barcelona, Aymá S.A. Editora, Barcelona, 1973
- El revolucionario profesional, Aymá S.A. Editora, Barcelona, 1975
- Les communistes contre la révolution espagnole, Belfond, Paris, 1978
References[]
- ^ Ruiz Galvete, Marta: "Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura: anticomunismo y guerra fría en América Latina" en "El Argonauta español ", Numéro 3, 2006 - http://argonauta.imageson.org/document75.html - retrieved 2009/10/19.
External links[]
- Julián Gorkin Archive at Marxists Internet Archive
- Marc Ferri Ramírez, "Julián Gorkin, la vida de un luchador"
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- 1901 births
- 1987 deaths
- People from Benifairó de les Valls
- POUM politicians
- Politicians from the Valencian Community
- Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)
- Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Mexico
- Spanish expatriates in Mexico
- Spanish expatriates in France
- Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France