Revolutionary History
Pierre Broué
It is with great sadness that we mourn the death of Pierre Broué, the distinguished French revolutionary Marxist and scholar, who died on 26 July after a long fight against cancer.
Broué was a prolific writer, and was the author of substantial works on the Bolshevik party, the German Revolution (recently published in an English translation by Brill) and the Communist International, and exhaustive biographies of Trotsky and Rakovsky. He edited the long-running Cahiers Léon Trotsky. He was also an active militant of the Trotskyist movement, and was for many years a member of the l’Organisation communiste internationaliste. More recently he was a supporter of the Committee for a Marxist International.
He was a good friend to this journal and a future issue of Revolutionary History will be dedicated to Broué’s writings, while the next issue of our journal will contain a full obituary. We send our deepest condolences to his family, friends and comrades.