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It Had to Be Revolution : Memoirs of an American Radical / Charles Shipman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Soviet history and societyPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: 1993Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 19 b&w photographsContent type:
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  • 9781501738968
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  • 324.27375092 20/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The Right or Wrong School for a Bad Boy -- 2 Trying—Not Very Hard—to Adjust -- 3 Columbia, the Socialist Club, and a Wonderful Magazine -- 4 The Ford Peace Expedition -- 5 Eleanor -- 6 "Will You Be Drafted?" -- 7 Confirmation from Afar -- 8 Camp Upton -- 9 The Road to Mazatlán -- 10 Jesús Escobar -- 11 Byways Untouched by the Mexican Revolution -- 12 Mexico City and the Cinco Gatos -- 13 Not Really a "Red" Newspaper -- 14 Borodin -- 15 Revolutionist by Profession -- 16 In Soviet Russia -- 17 Lenin, Trotsky, and a Historic Congress -- 18 Goodbye to John Reed -- 19 A Frustrated Mission to Mexico -- 20 Manuel Gómez and Wife in Chicago -- 21 The Anti-Imperialist Department -- 22 Moscow after Eight Years -- 23 Temporary Refuge in Wall Street -- 24 Definitely Sylvia -- 25 My "Demarche into Cultural Work" -- 26 A Father out of a Job -- 27 Bertolt Brecht and the Theater Union -- 28 Painful Disillusionment -- 29 More Shipman than Gomez -- 30 A Different Man and a Different War -- 31 Railroading and High Finance with Robert R. Young -- 32 I'd Rather Be in Wilton -- 33 A Proposal That Could Not Be Refused -- 34 Rich and Poor in New Canaan -- 35 Italy, Israel, and Rumania -- 36 After All -- Epilogue -- Index of Names
Summary: Frank Seaman, Jesus Ramirez, Manuel Gomez. Student activist, draft resister, political refugee, delegate to the Moscow Comintern congress, underground organizer, railroad executive, investment columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The man who was born Charles Francis Phillips in 1895 and died Charles Shipman in 1989 was all of these. In this robust memoir, Shipman gives us an incomparable view of modern history from the inner circles of the Communist movement.An unruly boy in a middle-class family, Shipman chose revolution from the start. From his undergraduate days at Columbia he pursued a career of activism that led through a complex—and at times dangerous—series of double lives. During the 1920s, Shipman tirelessly supported the Bolshevik call for an international social revolution and the liberation of colonial peoples; and as a founding member of the Mexican Communist Party, he encountered face-to-face many of the most important figures of the left. Shipman offers pithy portraits of an array of writers, artists, comrades, and friends including Dorothy Day, Walter Lippmann, and Bertolt Brecht, as well as Lenin, Zinoviev, and Michael Borodin. After Stalin assumed power in the USSR, Shipman's enthusiasm for the Party ebbed, and he chronicles his gradual withdrawal from American communism. But interwoven with the drama of Shipman's political odyssey is another story: his personal struggle to come to terms with elusive questions of ethnic identity, friendship, parenthood, and love.Including nineteen evocative photographs, It Had to Be Revolution documents the early years of the American and international left from the perspective of a man who was as successful at the front lines of communism as he was within the boardrooms of capitalism—and who preserved the commitments of his youth throughout his remarkable life.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The Right or Wrong School for a Bad Boy -- 2 Trying—Not Very Hard—to Adjust -- 3 Columbia, the Socialist Club, and a Wonderful Magazine -- 4 The Ford Peace Expedition -- 5 Eleanor -- 6 "Will You Be Drafted?" -- 7 Confirmation from Afar -- 8 Camp Upton -- 9 The Road to Mazatlán -- 10 Jesús Escobar -- 11 Byways Untouched by the Mexican Revolution -- 12 Mexico City and the Cinco Gatos -- 13 Not Really a "Red" Newspaper -- 14 Borodin -- 15 Revolutionist by Profession -- 16 In Soviet Russia -- 17 Lenin, Trotsky, and a Historic Congress -- 18 Goodbye to John Reed -- 19 A Frustrated Mission to Mexico -- 20 Manuel Gómez and Wife in Chicago -- 21 The Anti-Imperialist Department -- 22 Moscow after Eight Years -- 23 Temporary Refuge in Wall Street -- 24 Definitely Sylvia -- 25 My "Demarche into Cultural Work" -- 26 A Father out of a Job -- 27 Bertolt Brecht and the Theater Union -- 28 Painful Disillusionment -- 29 More Shipman than Gomez -- 30 A Different Man and a Different War -- 31 Railroading and High Finance with Robert R. Young -- 32 I'd Rather Be in Wilton -- 33 A Proposal That Could Not Be Refused -- 34 Rich and Poor in New Canaan -- 35 Italy, Israel, and Rumania -- 36 After All -- Epilogue -- Index of Names

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Frank Seaman, Jesus Ramirez, Manuel Gomez. Student activist, draft resister, political refugee, delegate to the Moscow Comintern congress, underground organizer, railroad executive, investment columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The man who was born Charles Francis Phillips in 1895 and died Charles Shipman in 1989 was all of these. In this robust memoir, Shipman gives us an incomparable view of modern history from the inner circles of the Communist movement.An unruly boy in a middle-class family, Shipman chose revolution from the start. From his undergraduate days at Columbia he pursued a career of activism that led through a complex—and at times dangerous—series of double lives. During the 1920s, Shipman tirelessly supported the Bolshevik call for an international social revolution and the liberation of colonial peoples; and as a founding member of the Mexican Communist Party, he encountered face-to-face many of the most important figures of the left. Shipman offers pithy portraits of an array of writers, artists, comrades, and friends including Dorothy Day, Walter Lippmann, and Bertolt Brecht, as well as Lenin, Zinoviev, and Michael Borodin. After Stalin assumed power in the USSR, Shipman's enthusiasm for the Party ebbed, and he chronicles his gradual withdrawal from American communism. But interwoven with the drama of Shipman's political odyssey is another story: his personal struggle to come to terms with elusive questions of ethnic identity, friendship, parenthood, and love.Including nineteen evocative photographs, It Had to Be Revolution documents the early years of the American and international left from the perspective of a man who was as successful at the front lines of communism as he was within the boardrooms of capitalism—and who preserved the commitments of his youth throughout his remarkable life.

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