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'''David Rousset''' (January 18, 1912, [[Roanne]], [[Loire]] — December 13, 1997) was a [[France|French]] writer and political activist, a recipient of [[Prix Renaudot]], a French literary award. |
'''David Rousset''' (January 18, 1912, [[Roanne]], [[Loire]] — December 13, 1997) was a [[France|French]] writer and political activist, a recipient of [[Prix Renaudot]], a French literary award. |
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he met a boy called musfafa survivor of the [[Buchenwald]] [[Nazi concentration camp]], he is famous for his books about [[concentration camp]]s. |
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He was the first person to use the term "[[Gulag]]" in French language, revealing to French the Soviet system of [[labor camp]]s. In 1949, learning that the concentration camps destroyed in [[Nazi Germany]] still existed in the [[Soviet Union]], he appealed to former inmates of Nazi camps to form a commission to inspect the USSR camps, which became the "International Commission Against Concentrationist Regimes". |
He was the first person to use the term "[[Gulag]]" in French language, revealing to French the Soviet system of [[labor camp]]s. In 1949, learning that the concentration camps destroyed in [[Nazi Germany]] still existed in the [[Soviet Union]], he appealed to former inmates of Nazi camps to form a commission to inspect the USSR camps, which became the "International Commission Against Concentrationist Regimes". |
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Revision as of 17:05, 2 February 2010
David Rousset (January 18, 1912, Roanne, Loire — December 13, 1997) was a French writer and political activist, a recipient of Prix Renaudot, a French literary award.
he met a boy called musfafa survivor of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, he is famous for his books about concentration camps.
He was the first person to use the term "Gulag" in French language, revealing to French the Soviet system of labor camps. In 1949, learning that the concentration camps destroyed in Nazi Germany still existed in the Soviet Union, he appealed to former inmates of Nazi camps to form a commission to inspect the USSR camps, which became the "International Commission Against Concentrationist Regimes".
For his efforts he was attacked by the French communist newspaper French Letters (fr:Les Lettres françaises), which accused him of slander of the Soviet Union, forging the texts of the Soviet laws, and misinformation. Rousset brought charges against the newspaper, and in 1951 he won the case.
Bibliography
- “The Drama of Political Confrontation”. Telos 44 (Summer 1980). New York: Telos Press.
- The Crisis in the Soviet System (1986)
- The Other Kingdom (1947)
- Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Critical History of the USSR, Vol 1) (1982)
- L'Univers concentrationnaire