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The indictment has a singularity as exercised toward him. Both the man and the books he has published are on trial... The books... go beyond the man himself... a body of Marxist-Leninist literature surpassed in few countries indeed... made available to the American people because this man has known
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Researcher David Lincove has characterized books and pamphlets published by International Publishers under Trachtenberg as having a "utilitarian, academic, or inexpensive format," though occasionally "illustrations reinforced proletarian themes." He noted that "color images appeared on book covers,
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on September 13, 1939. Proclaiming his support for Communism, he described the revenues, production, and sales (see previous section, above). He described his firm's relationship between with the CPUSA as "business." However, Trachtenberg also served on the board of "Workers Library Publishers"
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At the founding convention of the WPA in December 1921, Trachtenberg was elected to serve on the Central Executive Committee of the new organization. At the 2nd Convention of December 1922, Trachtenberg was re-elected to the same role. Trachtenberg was chosen as a delegate of the Workers Party of
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The Soviet Union clarified the responsibilities of writers in the communist movement at the Second World Plenum of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Literature held in Kharkov on November 6–15, 1930. The Comintern instructed the CPUSA to enlist writers into their ranks to work for the
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starting in April and running to December 1921. Trachtenberg served as the chairman of the Finance Committee of the group. The underground Communist Party was being pushed toward open activity by pressure of the Communist International. At the end of 1921, the Worker's Council joined with the
545:. Pamphlets cost up to $ 1, books up to $ 3. Of the firm's own titles, 80% were exported, of which 80% went to the Soviet Union. Inside the U.S, International Publishers sold to bookstores, universities, libraries, and schools. Half or more of domestic sales occurred directly in New York. 758:. In the 21st century, Golos is known to have been closely tied to the secret Soviet foreign intelligence apparatus in America during these years. Trachtenberg told Congress that he received payment from World Tourists for his services for only about one year, either in 1936 or 1937. 514:, then executive secretary of the Party, to express his intention not to compete but to support the Party's own publications. To political texts, International Publishers added literary and academic works that appealed not just to the working class but also to progressives. 322:
in New York. Trachtenberg directed the school's Department of Labor Research, which conducted studies for other organizations and gathered and published labor statistics. He edited various Rand publications, including the first four volumes of the Rand School's encyclopedic
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in the state's 12th District. In 1924, he ran for Congress on behalf of the Workers Party in the New York 10th District, running for the same office for the Communist Party in the New York 14th District in 1926, 1928, and 1930, after the Stock Market Crash.
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Soon after his return home in the late summer of 1905, Trachtenberg was arrested and imprisoned by the government for a year, during a period of political dissidents suppression. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Trachtenberg escaped
389:(now the FBI) had an informant, Abraham Goodman, who worked as the bookkeeper for Trachtenberg's company, Chatham Printing Co. Goodman reported to the BoI that Trachtenberg had printed a leaflet for the Communist Labor Party in the 187:. For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement. He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee. During the period of 436:. He was returned to the governing Central Executive Committee by the 5th Convention of September 1927, at which Jay Lovestone was elected Executive Secretary. At the 6th National Convention of March 1929, when 817:. At his sentencing, he criticized the selective examination of his firm's publications, rather than their overall history. He served three months in prison. The verdict was overturned when government witness 781:
years, Trachtenberg faced prosecution in Federal court, based on activities at International Publishers, teachings in communist-led schools, and previous writings supporting communist revolution in the U.S.
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in 1917, but delays in preparation of the manuscript and budgetary issues at the Department ultimately ended the project. Trachtenberg finally published his manuscript a quarter of a century later through
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of November 1917, but did not leave the Socialist Party in the summer of 1919 when the Communist movement in America was started. Instead, he remained with the SPA together with journalist
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Trachtenberg was the de facto treasurer of the Workers' Council group, briefly an independent organization in 1921 before joining the Workers Party of America at the end of the year.
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under his wing, and, as an old Bolshevik (he was said to be a former Tsarist cavalry officer and a doctor of philosophy from Yale), was a member of the Central Control Commission.
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neither fear nor pessimism, and has again and again surmounted obstacles almost insurmountable... Some day history will properly weigh and assess the role these books played.
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In addition to discussing the economics of International Publishers, Trachtenberg also told Congress that throughout the decade of the 1930s he had been the Treasurer of
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as a "distinctive logo depicting an upright, shirt-less laborer grasping an oversized book, thus emphasizing the importance of books and ideas in the class struggle."
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Trachtenberg joined the radical movement while attending the University of Odessa School of Electrotechnique as an engineering student from 1902 to 1904. During the
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inside the Socialist Party, later splitting as an independent organization known as the Workers' Council. The Workers' Council published a small biweekly magazine,
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With the social upheaval and economic distress of millions during the Depression, many people were searching for solutions in alternatives to American capitalism.
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Throughout the decade of the 1920s, Trachtenberg was frequently a candidate for elective public office. In 1920 he stood as a candidate of the Socialist Party for
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Some sources indicate Trachtenberg was born in 1884; this follows Trachtenberg's self-supplied entry in Solon DeLeon with Irma C. Hayssen and Grace Poole (eds.),
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For detail on the affairs of Golos, the head of World Tourists from 1932 until his death in 1943, see John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev,
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This Party-affiliated travel agency coordinated tours of Americans to the Soviet Union. As part of this job, Trachtenberg countersigned all checks prepared by
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American Socialists and the War: A Documentary History of the Attitude of the Socialist Party toward War and Militarism since the Outbreak of the Great War
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As of 2018, International Publishers continues in active operation. It remains closely affiliated with the CPUSA and maintains an office in New York City.
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also claimed that both Trachtenberg and Golos were members of a Communist Party "Control Commission," renamed "National Review Commission" by 1945.
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further claimed that World Tourists served "in part for spying from its very outset." Also, the newsletter claimed that Golos made it profitable.
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Alexander Leo Trachtenberg, later known to his friends as "Alex" or "Trachty," was born on November 23, 1885, of Jewish parents in the city of
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against the Jews in 1905 and 1906. Soon after his release in 1906, he joined many other Jews in political emigration to the United States.
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in 1912. He continued studies in Economics at Yale through 1915 and completed a dissertation on safety legislation for the protection of
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his account of Soviet espionage in the Roosevelt Administration, he identified Trachtenberg as "member of the Exec. Committee , Head of
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Trachtenberg continued to oppose the war even after the United States entry into the conflict on the side of the Allies in April 1917.
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Alexander Trachtenberg, "Testimony to the House Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, September 13, 1939", in
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International Publishers had gross sales increase from some $ 10,000 in the mid-1920s to $ 75,000 in the late 1930s, during the
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During the bitter inner-party conflict of the 1920s, Trachtenberg was a supporter of the New York-based faction headed by
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In 1956, Trachtenberg was convicted for a second time in Federal court and sentenced to one year in prison. In 1958, the
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in June 1924. Incorporated on July 17, 1924, the firm was a business enterprise which he co-owned. Financiers included
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Trachtenberg led the Party's cultural efforts, particularly publication and distribution of materials. In his memoirs,
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DoJ/BoI Investigative Files, NARA M-1085, reel 939, case 202600-1775-1. Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2006.
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and occasionally the publisher added interior photographs or artistic drawings and illustrations by artists such as
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coal miners, but he did not complete his doctorate. Trachtenberg's dissertation was accepted for publication by the
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in 1915, served as treasurer, and contributed to an anti-war petition to President Wilson after the sinking of the
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Alexander Trachtenberg who, as head of International Publishers, was the party's "cultural commissar" and had the
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Alexander Trachtenberg died age 81 on December 16, 1966, in New York of a stroke. He was survived by his wife.
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Trachtenberg left Yale in 1915 to work as an administrator and teacher of Economics and Labor at the
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in 1967 in a "New World Paperbacks" series). The firm continued to publish the classical works of
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Trachtenberg was very active in student affairs, serving as president of the Yale chapter of the
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and the underground communists to help establish a new, so-called "Legal Political Party," the
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became executive secretary, Trachtenberg was elected as an alternate member of the committee.
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as well as a controversial 1917 defense of the Socialist Party's anti-militarist perspective,
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International Publishers published Marxist–Leninist works. Trachtenberg gained support from
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Federal investigations into Trachtenberg's activities date to the period of the so-called "
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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activity in the United States: Appendix – Part IX.
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Books on Trial: The Case of Alexander Trachtenberg, Director, International Publishers.
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The History of Legislation for the Protection of Coal Miners in Pennsylvania, 1824–1915.
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The History of Legislation for the Protection of Coal Miners in Pennsylvania, 1824–1915.
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The History of Legislation for the Protection of Coal Miners in Pennsylvania, 1824–1915.
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Alexander Trachtenberg at 4th World Congress of Communist International in Moscow (1922)
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Trachtenberg, Testimony to the House Special Committee, September 13, 1939, pg. 4900.
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Trachtenberg, Testimony to the House Special Committee, September 13, 1939, pg. 4898.
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in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under the
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Investigation of Un-America Propaganda Activities in the United States: Volume 7.
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Trachtenberg married Rosalind Kohn Trachtenberg; they chose to have no children.
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continued to monitor Trachtenberg. It infiltrated International Publishers with
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In the fall of 1935, Trachtenberg was instrumental in helping to create the "
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Trachtenberg retired from International Publishers in 1962. His successor,
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International Publishers published two pamphlets in Trachtenberg's support:
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in England, however. It appears to have been ended after just a few years.
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Trachtenberg arrived in New York City on August 6, 1906, on a ship from
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on May 18, 1935. Some 20 artists attended. This group, replacing the
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Publisher on Trial: The Case of Alexander Trachtenberg, A Symposium.
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Lincove, "Radical Publishing to 'Reach the Million Masses,'" pg. 88.
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Publisher on Trial:The Case of Alexander Trachtenberg, A Symposium.
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Publisher on Trial: The Case of Alexander Trachtenberg, A Symposium
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Trachtenberg was convicted on February 2, 1953, for violating the
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revolution. John Reed Clubs, initiated in 1929 by editors of the
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Theoretical Magazine for the Discussion of Revolutionary Problems
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Testimony to the House Special Committee, September 13, 1939,
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Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1944; pp. 588–591.
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In a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page
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in 1917, Trachtenberg had adhered to the left wing of the
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Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1940; pg. 4864.
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In 1921, Trachtenberg, Kruse, and Engdahl helped form the
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009; pp. 496–500.
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Trachtenberg led the first meeting of the newly formed
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summarized the activist's career by 1952 as follows:
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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Editor. New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1922.
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Editor. New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920.
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and its many chapters nationwide, operated within the
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Trachtenberg was subpoenaed and appeared before the
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Index

Alex Trachtenberg

Yale University
Rand School of Social Science
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
International Publishers
International Publishers
Communist Party of the United States of America
pamphlets
International Publishers
Socialist Party of America
Communist Party USA
McCarthyism
Smith Act
US Circuit Court of Appeals
Odessa
Pale of Settlement
Russian Empire
Russo-Japanese War
Order of St. George
pogroms
Hamburg
bachelor's degree
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
Yale University
Pennsylvania
United States Department of Labor
International Publishers
Intercollegiate Socialist Society

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