Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

His Friendship to the Soviet People in 1938-1941

Copyright © 1999 by Hugo S. Cunningham
Italicized portions copyright Klehr et al., or Theodore Dreiser.

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An American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school, Theodore Dreiser won national fame for such works as Sister Carrie (1900), The Genius (1915), and especially An American Tragedy (1925). You can learn more about him at the The International Theodore Dreiser Society website.

The Cyber-USSR is especially grateful, however, for his support against the lies of Trotskyites, British imperialists, and other enemies of progressive humanity.

On Trotskyism

In support of the peace policy of the Soviet Union (1939-1941)

Sources

Theodore Dreiser, America Is Worth Saving, Modern Age Books, New York, 1941. Cloth, 292 pp.

Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, The Secret World of American Communism, Yale University Press, New Haven and London,
Copyright © 1998 by Yale University.

Notes

Note 1 -- Earl Browder--
Leader of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) from early 1930s until 1945. Though unmasked as a revisionist in 1945 and expelled from the CPUSA in 1946, he seemed OK in 1937.
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Note 2 -- Source--
Klehr et. al, pp. 304- 305.
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Note 3 -- Nat Ross--
American referent to the Marty Secretariat and de-facto American representative to the Comintern (Klehr et al., p. 78)
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Note 4 -- Marty Secretariat--
André Marty (1886-1956) supervised the Anglo-American Secretariat of the Comintern in the mid- and late 1930s. His personal secretariat continued to deal with American matters until the Comintern was disbanded [ca 1943]. (Klehr et al., p. xxviii)
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Note 5 -- Peace policy of the Soviet Union--
The 23 August 1939 Nonaggression Treaty ("Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact") between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It contained secret clauses for the partition of Poland and Eastern Europe.
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Note 6 -- Source--
Klehr et. al, p. 83
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Copyright © 1999 by Hugo S. Cunningham
Italicized portions copyright Klehr et al., or Theodore Dreiser.


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