Fernando Claudín Pontes | |
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.jpg) Fernando Claudín in 1983 | |
| Born | (1913-08-24)24 August 1913 Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain |
| Died | 16 May 1990(1990-05-16) (aged 74) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Communist leader |
| Known for | The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform |
Fernando Claudín Pontes (24 August 1913 – 16 May 1990) was aSpanish communist ideologist and historian best known for his two volume studyThe Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform.
Fernando Claudín Pontes was born inZaragoza, Aragon, on 21 August 1915.[1]Later he moved to Madrid, where he enrolled in theEscuela Superior de Arquitectura.In 1932 he became a member of the Communist Youth (Juventudes Comunistas).[2]In 1936 he was elected to the leadership of theUnified Socialist Youth (Juventudes Socialistas Unificados, JSU) as director of its journalAhora.[2]During theSpanish Civil War (1936–39) he was appointed head of the Press Cabinet underSantiago Carrillo, Councillor of Public Security in theMadrid Defense Council.[3]Other key posts in this department were held by Luis Rodríguez Cuesta (secretary of the Council),Federico Melchor (Security, Assault and the National Guard),Segundo Serrano Poncela (DGS), and Alfredo Cabello (Emisión Radiofónica).[4]
After the Republicans were defeated by the forces led by GeneralFrancisco Franco in 1939, Claudín began a long exile in Moscow, France, Mexico, Cuba, Chile and Argentina.From 1943 to 1945 Claudín worked in theCommunist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE) headquarters in Argentina. In 1945 he moved to France. From 1947 to December 1954 he represented the Spanish communists in Moscow. In 1955 he returned to Paris as a member of the PCE executive committee.[2]
Following the20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 Claudin found himself increasingly at odds with an official party line which overwhelmingly supportedSoviet policies regardless of the actions of theSoviet Union itself.He was expelled from the PCE in 1965 for his open disagreement with official policy. In June 1975 he returned secretly to Spain and worked at theEditorial Siglo XXI until 1980, when he was named a director of theFundación Pablo Iglesias. He joined theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and was named president of the Foundation in 1988.He died in Madrid on 16 May 1990.[2]
Among other works, Claudín wrote a critical Marxist history of the Soviet-aligned Communist movementLa crisis del movimiento comunista. De la Komintern al Kominform (1970), which was translated into English and published asThe Communist Movement: From Comintern To Cominform in 1975.
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