Lucien Deslinières was a French journalist, writer and socialist.

Deslinières joined the Parti Ouvrier Français (POF) in 1891. He later tried unsuccessfully to establish a collectivist settlement in Mexico

Mexico

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. After the Russian Revolution, he travelled to the USSR, becoming an agricultural commissar in the Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 in 1920. Civil war and shortage of money blocking his schemes of agrarian reform

Agrarian reform

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, he returned to France.

Works

• L'application du système collectiviste, 1899
• Projet de code socialiste, 1908
• Le Maroc socialiste, 1912
• Comment se réalisera le socialisme, 1919. Translated by Eden
  Eden Paul
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   and Cedar Paul
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   as The coming of socialism
• La France nord-africaine; étude critique de la colonisation anarchique pratiquée jusqu'à ce jour. Projet de colonisation organisée, 1920
• Délivrons-nous du Marxisme, 1923
• La production intensive, 1923
• Principes d'économie socialiste, 1924
• Dans l'ornière marxiste, en France, en Russie : pour en sortir, 1927

Further reading

• Guy Thuillier, 'Lucien Deslinières et le socialisme bureaucratique', Bureaucratie et bureaucrates en France au XIXe siècle, 1980, p. 154ff.