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Lenin: A Biography
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David Shub
A Letter From David Shub
Defending His Biography of Lenin
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From The New International, Vol. XVI No. 2, March&#;April , pp.&#;86&#;
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To the Editors of
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL:
My attention has been called to Mr. Max Shachtman&#;s article on my book Lenin, A Biography in your December issue. I am sufficiently familiar with the tradition of Bolshevik polemics not to be surprised by the abusive and defamatory character of Mr. Shachtman&#;s review. I reply in your columns only because I believe I am entitled to keep the record clear on the facts upon which Mr. Shachtman rests his case. (I am quite prepared to believe, unless the contrary is proved, that many of Mr. Shachtman&#;s errors are the product of inadequate grounding in the source materials rather than of deliberate malice.)
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1. Mr. Shachtman questions the authenticity of my Lenin quotation on the role of a dictator in the Soviet state. Says Mr. Shachtman, after quoting from the English edition of Lenin&#;s Selected Works, Vol.&#;2, p.&#; &#;Nothi
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David Shub
Exiled Russian social democrat revolutionary, historian
David Shub ( – ) was a social democrat arrested for activity in the Russian revolution and exiled to Siberia in and escaped to the United States in
In he wrote the lead article on Stalin, probably the first authoritative profile to appear in the American press, for the New York Times magazine (22 March )[citation needed]
His biography of Lenin has been reprinted over sixteen times, described as "indispensable to the student of contemporary history, of russia, and of social revolution".
During his exile, he remained in close contact with leading figures of the Russian Revolutionary movement, including BolsheviksLenin, Trotsky, and Bukharin, and also liberals and socialists such as Kerensky, Miliukov, Chernov, Catherine Breshkovsky, and others.
Biography
[edit]David Shub was born and educated in Russia. In he lived in London, Paris, and Geneva, where he often met with leaders of the Social Democratic Party, both Menshevik and Bolshevik, including Lenin, Plekhanov, Axelrod, Zasulich, Bogdanov, Lunacharsky, Bonch-Bruyevich, Martov, Potresov, and Dan.
David was an editor of "The Jewish Daily Forward"for 45 years, joining the editing board in He wrote and solicited articles about the