Julián Gómez García, better known as Julián Gorkin (January 1901 – 8 August 1987), was a Spanish revolutionary

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, writer and a central leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) during the

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Biography

Gorkin was born in

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. After the Spanish Civil War, he escaped to

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where he became a part of the strong anti-Stalinist socialist community there. He helped obtain visas for

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and his son Vlady to enter Mexico when they had to escape from the

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invading

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. By the time he returned to Paris in 1948 he had become an

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. From 1953 to 1963 (with a brief interlude in 1959) he was editor in Paris of the periodical ''

Cuadernos ''Cuadernos'' () was a Spanish-language magazine that was published in Paris, France, in the period 1953–1965. Its full title was ''Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura''. It was one of the publications of the Congress for Cultu ...

'' published by the

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front group

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.Ruiz Galvete, Marta. (2006)
Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura: anticomunismo y guerra fría en América Latina
''El Argonauta español'', 3. Gorkin died in Paris. He was a writer of many books on political and cultural themes, as well as novels and some plays.

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

External links

at Marxists Internet Archive

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorkin, Julian 1901 births 1987 deaths People from Camp de Morvedre 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