People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Spanish Republicstate 8 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 6 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 4 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Cubastate 1 Spain state institutionsstate 1 United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1

All 11 affiliations

Cuba

Cubastate 1 Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 ↳ Left Opposition 1

Spain

Spain state institutionsstate 1 Spanish Republicstate 8 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 6 Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 4

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1
Position
Any Left critics of Bolshevism 1
Citizenship
Any Spain 1
Background(set)
Any Russia 723 Ukraine 93 Belarus 40 Latvia 28 Georgia 26 Armenia 24 Poland 21 Lithuania 18 Estonia 14 Azerbaijan 12 Germany 9 Moldova 7 Kyrgyzstan 6 Uzbekistan 6 Finland 4 Kazakhstan 4 Bulgaria 3 Hungary 3 Korea 3 Tajikistan 3 Turkmenistan 3 France 2 Turkey 2 Romania 1 Spain 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1
Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks Background: Spain Clear all
GlossarySoviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks

Andreu Nin

Andreu Nin
Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) Left critics of Bolshevism Spain Spain 1892–1937 ✕ Murdered

The Marxist who linked the Russian and Spanish revolutions, founder of the POUM

“The working class has solved the problem of the Church simply by not leaving even one of them standing.” — La Vanguardia, August 1936

Catalan Marxist revolutionary. After serving as CNT General Secretary, he joined Trotsky's Left Opposition in Moscow and later founded the anti-Stalinist POUM. He was also the first to translate Russian literature directly into Catalan.

Career timeline
  • 1911Joined the Catalan federalist Republican Nationalist Federal Union
  • 1914Moved to Barcelona; taught at a secular anarchist school
  • 1917Joined the PSOE briefly, then the CNT; embraced revolutionary syndicalism
  • 1920–1921General Secretary of the CNT
  • 1921–1930Moscow: Profintern and Comintern work; joined the Left Opposition
  • 1930Returned to Spain; founded the Communist Left of Spain (ICE)
  • 1935Merged with Maurín's BOC to found the POUM
  • 1936General Secretary of POUM; Minister of Justice of Catalonia
  • 1937.06Arrested after the May Days; kidnapped and killed by the NKVD