William Henry Chamberlin

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William Henry Chamberlin, 1917

William Henry Chamberlin (born February 17, 1897 in Brooklyn , New York , † September 12, 1969 ) was an American Russia correspondent and Eastern European historian .

Life

Chamberlin went to school in Pennsylvania and then graduated from Haverford College . At 25 he went to Greenwich Village in south Manhattan . There he was impressed by the life of the bohemians and the enthusiasm for Bolshevism in New York in the early 1920s. He worked for Heywood Broun , the literary editor of the New York Tribune, and began writing under the pen name A. C. Freeman. He became a socialist pacifist who, however, supported the communist regime in the Soviet Union .

At the end of the 1920s Chamberlin moved to the Soviet Union, where he worked as the Moscow correspondent for the American Christian Science Monitor and the British Manchester Guardian until 1940. At the beginning of his stay in the Soviet Union, he was considered a Marxist and admirer of the communist revolution, but turned into a critic. In 1930 he published his book Soviet Russia , in which he described the time of the party's New Economic Policy . Chamberlin and his wife of Russian descent later criticized the consequences of the agricultural policy of the CPSU , the famines and forced collectivizations in the Soviet Union in 1932 and 1933.

Chamberlin toured Germany in the later 1930s and then went to Japan for the Christian Science Monitor . His experiences in the three countries led him to the conviction that the freedoms guaranteed in the United States, including by the Bill of Rights , are important for the development of individuals.

In 1940 Chamberlin returned to the USA from France, first going to Washington, DC and finally settling in Cambridge (Massachusetts) .

Chamberlin was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society . His collaboration with the American magazine Russian Review lasted from 1940 until his death in 1960.

Publications

  • 1930: Soviet Russia: A Living Record and a History . Little, Brown & Co., New York City.
  • 1934: Russia's Iron Age . Little, Brown & Co., New York City.
  • 1935: The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 . 2 volumes.
    • 1958: German: The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 , 2nd volumes. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1958
  • 1938: Japan over Asia .
  • 1940: The Confessions of an Individualist , autobiography.
  • 1942: Canada. Today and Tomorrow .
  • 1950: America's Second Crusade . Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
    • 1952: German by Egon Heymann: America's Second Crusade: War Policy and Roosevelt's Failure . Athenaeum publishing house, Bonn.
  • 1963: The German Phoenix . Duel, Sloane & Pearce, New York City.
  • 1983: Beyond Containment . Regnery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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personal data
SURNAME Chamberlin, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, historian, and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1969