It Had to Be Revolution : : Memoirs of an American Radical /

It Had to Be Revolution : : Memoirs of an American Radical / / Charles Shipman.

Frank Seaman, Jesus Ramirez, Manuel Gomez. Student activist, draft resister, political refugee, delegate to the Moscow Comintern congress, underground organizer, railroad executive, investment columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The man who was born Charles Francis Phillips in 1895 and died Charl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Shipman, Charles,
MitwirkendeR:
Klehr, Harvey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1993
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Soviet history and society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 19 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 The Right or Wrong School for a Bad Boy
  • 2 Trying—Not Very Hard—to Adjust
  • 3 Columbia, the Socialist Club, and a Wonderful Magazine
  • 4 The Ford Peace Expedition
  • 5 Eleanor
  • 6 "Will You Be Drafted?"
  • 7 Confirmation from Afar
  • 8 Camp Upton
  • 9 The Road to Mazatlán
  • 10 Jesús Escobar
  • 11 Byways Untouched by the Mexican Revolution
  • 12 Mexico City and the Cinco Gatos
  • 13 Not Really a "Red" Newspaper
  • 14 Borodin
  • 15 Revolutionist by Profession
  • 16 In Soviet Russia
  • 17 Lenin, Trotsky, and a Historic Congress
  • 18 Goodbye to John Reed
  • 19 A Frustrated Mission to Mexico
  • 20 Manuel Gómez and Wife in Chicago
  • 21 The Anti-Imperialist Department
  • 22 Moscow after Eight Years
  • 23 Temporary Refuge in Wall Street
  • 24 Definitely Sylvia
  • 25 My "Demarche into Cultural Work"
  • 26 A Father out of a Job
  • 27 Bertolt Brecht and the Theater Union
  • 28 Painful Disillusionment
  • 29 More Shipman than Gomez
  • 30 A Different Man and a Different War
  • 31 Railroading and High Finance with Robert R. Young
  • 32 I'd Rather Be in Wilton
  • 33 A Proposal That Could Not Be Refused
  • 34 Rich and Poor in New Canaan
  • 35 Italy, Israel, and Rumania
  • 36 After All
  • Epilogue
  • Index of Names

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