Raymond Lefebvre

Raymond Lefebvre

Raymond-Louis Lefebvre (Vire, 1891-Barents Sea, 1920) was a French writer and political activist. He attended the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in 1920, but disappeared in the Barents Sea whilst returning.

Lefebvre served as a soldier during the First World War and in 1917 described his experiences in Le sacrifice d'Abraham (The Sacrifice of Abraham). He had been wounded and was revolted by the whole experience. This work placed him alongside Henri Barbusse, Georges Duhamel, Marcel Martinet – amongst others – as being one of the writers who developed a revolutionary perspective during the war.[1] He was involved in setting up a radical veterans association, the Association Républicaine des Anciens Combattants.[1]

After attending the 2nd Congress of the Cominiern, he was appointed to the Provisional International Bureau of the Kultintern, an organisation set up to promote proletarian culture.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Serge, Victor (1921). "Héros et martyrs du communisme Raymond Lefebvre". Le bulletin communiste. 2 (4). Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Biggart, John. "Alexander Bogdanov and the short history of the Kultintern". Alexander Bogdanov Library. Historical Materialism. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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