- Fernando Claudin
Fernando Claudin (1915-1990) was a Spanish
communist ideologist and historian best known for his two volume study "The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform".Within the Spanish Communist Party
Initially a student of
architecture in his hometown ofMadrid , in 1933 Claudin became so committed to the idea of political revolution that he gave up all of his own personal ambitions to join the Young Communists. FollowingFranco 's victory after theSpanish Civil War many of those in theSpanish Communist Party lived in exile inMexico , including Claudin himself. From 1944 to 1964 Claudin sat on the executive committee of the Spanish Communist Party. Following the revelatory20th Congress of the CPSU , Claudin found himself increasingly at odds with an official party line which overwhelmingly supportedSoviet policies regardless of the actions of theSoviet Union itself. Despite several attempts to mend a schism in the Spanish Communist Party resulting from the fallout, Claudin was eventually expelled in 1964.
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