David J. Dallin

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David J. Dallin (* 1889 in Rogachev , Russian Empire , † 1962 in New York City ) was a Russian politician , writer and journalist . The Menshevik was a member of the Moscow City Council , later emigrated to Germany , Poland and finally to the USA .

Life

From 1907 to 1909 he studied at the University of Saint Petersburg until he was arrested for anti- Tsarist activities. After two years in prison, he fled to Germany. He continued his studies first at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , then at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1913.

After the February Revolution of 1917, he returned to Russia. He was elected to the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and represented it in the Moscow City Soviet between 1918 and 1920. After being briefly imprisoned by the Bolshevik government in 1920, he evaded a second arrest in 1922 by fleeing again to Germany.

He lived there, worked for the Soviet trade agency in Berlin for years , until the National Socialists forced him to leave the country in 1935. He settled in Poland until the outbreak of war and fled to the USA in September 1939. There he became editor of the left-wing anti-communist newspaper The New Leader in New York. He was the Soviet Union expert there, wrote many articles on political and economic topics.

His books have included Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), Soviet Espionage (1955), and Soviet Foreign Policy After Stalin (1961). They have been translated into many languages, including German.

Publications

  • Work or the exploited? The system of labor camps in Soviet Russia . Die Neue Zeitung, Munich 1948 (with Boris Nikolaevsky )
  • Real Soviet Russia . F. Oetinger, Hamburg 1948
  • Soviet Espionage: Principles and Practices . Publishing house for politics and economy, Cologne 1956
  • Soviet foreign policy after Stalin's death . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1961
  • The New Soviet Empire . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1951
  • Form Purge to coexistence: Essays on Stalin & Khrushchev's Russia . Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, Illinois 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schlögel : The Russian Berlin. Munich 2007, p. 152

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personal data
SURNAME Dallin, David J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rogachev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death New York City