Charles Rappoport

Charles Rappoport ( born June 14, 1865 in Dukschty, Lithuania, † November 17, 1941 in Cahors ) was involved as a Lithuanian- French socialist instrumental in the founding of the Communist Party (PCF ).

Charles Rappoport was born in 1865 in a shtetl in what was then Russian Lithuania. Since 1883 he was an active revolutionary and had to leave the country in 1887. After his deportation from Berlin, he lived in France since 1895, where he received citizenship in 1899. Later, he earned a doctorate in philosophy in Switzerland.

In France he became a member of the Fédération des Socialistes révolutionnaires and later the Section Française de l' International ouvrière ( SFIO, dt: French Section of the Workers' International ). In 1914 he kicked the granting of war credits by the SFIO and their participation in the Union sacrée. At the Congress of Tours in December 1920, he played a key role in ensuring that the majority of the SFIO joined the Communist International, from which in 1922 the PCF emerged. In 1921 he became the first executive editor of the French version of the Inprecorr.

In 1928, he first supported the trials against Trotsky and Zinoviev and was correspondent of Izvestia. In 1938 he condemned but then the trial of Bukharin, broke with the PCF and rejoined the SFIO to. In 1941, he died in Cahors in France.