Charles Rappoport Papers

Period 1900-1940 (-1994)
Total size  0.85 m.
ConsultationNot restricted

Biography

Born in Doutsky, Russian Lithuania 1865, died in Cahors, France 1941; high school in Vilnius; publicist, militant socialist; from 1883 active in the Russian revolutionary movement, exiled in 1887; lived first in Berlin, expelled in 1895 and went to Paris; naturalized in 1899; wrote for socialist journals in France, Germany, Switzerland and for the Russian emigrant-press; member of the Fédération des Socialistes Révolutionnaires and later of the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO) in which he opposed reformism; joined the Executive Bureau of the Committee for the Third International in March 1920; elected as member of the Directing Committee at the founding congress of the Parti Communiste Français (PCF); PCF-delegate to the second plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (COMINTERN) in 1922; in the same year lost his position in the Directing Committee of the PCF; denounced in 1928 Leon Trotsky and G.E. Zinov'ev; became correspondent for Izvestija; resigned during the trial of N.I. Bucharin in 1938 from both the Izvestija and the PCF.

Content

Correspondence (mainly received) with Anatole France, Jules Guesde, Jean Jaurès, Karl Kautsky, Georgij Plechanov, Edouard Vaillant, Clara Zetkin and others; correspondence written and received while French correspondent for Izvestija and during the time he was director of Contre la Guerre and Revue Communiste; handwritten and partially typed manuscript of his memoirs `Ma Vie'; manuscripts (handwritten and typed) of his articles; some proofs of articles; many notebooks; autobiographical notes; personal documents; pamphlets; leaflets and press clippings; file with photocopies of letters, articles, manuscripts, etc. concerning Rappoport, originating from the Vogein Collection at the Centre de Documentation sur l'U.S.S.R. et les Pays Slaves in Paris.

Correspondence with Gaston Bergery 1939, Jean Marestan 1936, Pierre Morhange 1929-1930, Romain Rolland 1915, Georges Sadoul 1936, Maurice Thorez 1937, Henry Torrès 1928, and others 1915-1937 (1941); file on Jean Jaurès n.d.; file on his contributions to the Izvestija 1930-1934; typescripts 'Élaboration de la conception Marxiste' 1919, 'La première révolution sociale victorieuse' n.d., 'Mon séjour en URSS' / 'Mon voyage en Russie' 1927-1928, 'Calendrier philosophique' [1936], 'M. Staline est-il le diable de "Faust"' [1939] and other; original typescript, with notes, of and correspondence on the memoirs of Rappoport, annotated by Harvey Goldberg and Georges Haupt, edited by Marc Lagana and published as Une vie révolutionnaire 1883-1940. Les mémoires de Charles Rappoport in 1991, 1990-1994.

Processing information

Inventory made by Rena Fuks-Mansfeld in 2009