Pierre Broué (8 May 1926 – 26 July 2005)[1] was a French historian and Trotskyist revolutionary militant whose work covers the history of the Bolshevik Party, the Spanish Revolution and biographies of Leon Trotsky.

[2] By 1940, with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in a non-aggression pact, he helped organize a Communist Party cell at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris.

The accusation piqued his interest, and he began reading about Trotsky from the private library of the teacher Élie Reynier.

[3][4] Broué died in Grenoble, France, in his sleep in the early hours of July 26, 2005, at the age of 79 from prostate cancer.

[2] Alan Woods has called it "a very healthy antidote to the superficial and pretentious philistinism of Isaac Deutscher".

Marxists' Internet Archives lists the following articles by Broué that appeared in Revolutionary History: