Do any of you have sources on the noms de guerre of any Marxist revolutionary? According to the Wikipedia articles on noms de guerre “Revolutionaries and resistance leaders, such as Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Golda Meir, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Josip Broz Tito, often adopted their noms de guerre as their proper names after the struggle.” And while I was reading “Diario de un combatiente” by Che, there were some mentions of their noms de guerre, but I forgot to write them down and I don’t know in which pages it was mentioned.
I checked Wikipedia, EcuRed and ProleWiki and none of them have them, but they obviously existed. I think it would be something nice to keep archived.
Alejandro, nombre de guerra de Fidel. pg. 19 Salvador, David, nombre de guerra de Ftank País. pg. 76, 107 Sierra enrique oltuski 227
For many of them, their normal name was not their original name. For example, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky’s last names were originally Ulyanov, Jugashvili, and Bronstein. Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-sung also used different names.
Huh, so then Lenin was a nom de guerre, not his real name, and he had 146 noms de guerre, 17 foreign ones and 129 Russian ones. Really interesting.
Thanks for that information!
