Translated from the Spanish by Nelly and Alex Lhermillier

***Original Spanish version available***

From a small village in Ukraine to Buenos Aires, the story of the remarkable and tumultuous life of Carlos Dujovne sheds new light on the history of Communism in Latin America.

The son of Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia, Carlos Dujovne was born in the colonies of Baron Maurice de Hirsch in Argentina. He became a member of the Federation of Socialist Youths in his adolescence and traveled to the USSR between 1923 and 1928, where for a time he worked as a translator for Stalin. He was later sent to South America as a secret agent of the Red Union International in Uruguay, Peru, and Chile. An emblematic figure of the Argentine Communist Party and the creator of the Marxist publishing house Editorial Problemas, Dujovne was jailed in Patagonia from 1943 to 1945. During that time, he reflected on Stalin’s crimes, anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, and the errors of the Argentinian Communist Party.