MANUSCRIPTS
British National Archives: “Lev Davidovich Bronstein, alias Leon Trotsky: Russian.” (KV2/502 et seq.)
Canadian National Archives: “Arrests of Certain Russians on S.S. Kristiania, 1917.” (RG25-A-3-a)
Hoover Institution Archives: Albert Glotzer Collection
Library of Congress:
Communist Party papers
Morris Hillquit papers
Socialist Party of America papers
Woodrow Wilson papers
National Archives:
Bureau of Investigations, 1918–1922 (RG65 and M1085)
Military Intelligence Division (MID) (Record Group 165)
Department of State, consular files (Record Group 59)
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University: Freda Kirchwey papers
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University: William Wiseman papers
Tamiment Library, New York University:
Morris Hillquit papers
Meyer London papers
Charles Recht papers
Algernon Lee papers
Socialist Party papers
B. Vladeck papers
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research:
Abraham Cahan papers
HIAS papers
NEWSPAPERS
Guardian
Globe and Commercial Advertiser
Jewish Daily Forward
Jewish Morning Journal
New York American
New York Call
New York Commercial Advertiser
New York Communist
New York Evening Post
New York Herald
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
New York Tribune
New York World
New York World-Telegram & Sun
New Yorker Volkszeitung
Novy Mir
Outlook
Revolutionary Age
BOOKS
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Braudy, Susan. Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Bell, Daniel. Marxian Socialism in the United States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952, 1967.
Bendersky, Joseph W. The Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Birmingham, Stephen. Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Boyer, Richard O., and Herbert M. Morais. Labor’s Untold Story. New York: United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, 1955, 1984.
Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989.
Buchanan, George. My Mission to Moscow, vol. 2. London: Cassell and Company, 1923.
Buhle, Mari Jo, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas. Encyclopedia of the American Left. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Buhle, Paul M. A Dreamer’s Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (1892–1953). Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995.
Cahan, Abraham. The Education of Abraham Cahan. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969.
Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1952, 1980.
Chalin, Anna Alice. Greenwich Village. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925.
Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1917.
Cohen, Stephen F. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971, 1973, 1980.
Cohen, Naomi W. Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, Brandeis University Press, 1999.
Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879–1921. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Draper, Theodore. The Roots of American Communism. New York: Viking Press, 1957.
Drehle, David Von. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
Eastman, Max. The Young Trotsky. London: New Park Publications, 1926, 1980.
Epstein, Edward Jay. Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1996.
Epstein, Melech. Profiles of Eleven. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965.
Former Russian commissar. Trotsky. Wichita, KS: Defender Publishers, 1937.
Fowler, W. B. British-American Relations, 1917–1918: The Role of Sir William Wiseman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Friedman, Saul S. Pogromchik: The Assassination of Simon Petlura. New York: Hart Publishing Company, 1976.
Gankin, Olga Hess, and H. H. Fisher. The Bolsheviks and the World War: The Origins of the Third International. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1940, 1960.
Gaunt, Guy. The Yield of the Years: A Story of Adventure Afloat and Ashore. London: Hutchinson & Company, 1940.
Ginger, Ray. Eugene V. Debs: The Making of an American Radical. New York: Collier Books, 1947, 1962.
Gitlow, Benjamin. I Confess: The Truth about American Communism. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1939, 1940.
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. New York: Da Capo Press, 1931, 1970.
Goldstein, Margaret J. V. I. Lenin. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books. 2007.
Gornick, Vivian. Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Hammer, Armand. Hammer. With Neil Lyndon. New York: Perigee Books, 1987.
Harris, Frank. Contemporary Portraits, fourth series. New York: Brentano’s Publishers, 1923.
Hillquit, Morris. Loose Leaves from a Busy Life. New York: MacMillan Company, 1934.
Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1963.
Howe, Irving. Leon Trotsky. New York: Viking Press, 1978.
———. World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made. New York: Schocken Books, 1976, 1989.
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhidri. In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Kalpaschnikoff, Andrew. A Prisoner of Trotsky. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920.
Kennan, George F. Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920: The Decision to Intervene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958.
King, Charles. Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.
Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin. vol. 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. New York: Penguin, 2014.
Kublin, Hyman. Asian Revolutionary: The Life of Sen Katayama. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
LeBlanc, Paul. Trotsky. London: Reaktion Books, 2015.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. Lenin’s Collected Works. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974.
Lipsky, Seth. The Rise of Abraham Cahan. New York: Schocken Books, 2013.
Marcosson, Isaac Frederick. Turbulent Years. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1938, 1969.
Michels, Tony. A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Miliukov, Paul. Political Memoirs 1905–1917. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.
Morris, James McGrath, and Kevin Stillwell. Revolution by Murder: Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and the Plot to Kill Henry Clay Frick. Amazon Digital Services, 2014.
Morton, Frederic. Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913–1914. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 1989.
Nedava, Joseph. Trotsky and the Jews. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972.
North, David. In Defense of Leon Trotsky. Oak Park, MI: Mehring Books, 2010, 2013.
Porter, Cathy. Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 1980, 2014.
Pratt, Norma Fain. Morris Hillquit: A Political History of an American Jewish Socialist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Radzinsky, Edvard. Stalin: His Life, His Death. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
Reed, John. Ten Days That Shook the World. New York: Modern Library, 1919, 1935.
Reinhardt, Guenther. Crime without Punishment: The Secret Soviet Terror against America. New York: Signet Books, 1953.
Rosenstone, Robert A. Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Rubinstein, Joshua. Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Sanders, Ronald, and Edmund V. Gillon Jr. The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past in Ninety-Nine New Photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1979, 1994.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Almanac of American History. New York: Perigee Books, 1983.
Serge, Victor, and Natalya Sedova Trotsky. The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky. New York: Basic Books, 1951, 1975,
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———. Trotsky: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Spence, Richard. Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2002.
Steffens, Lincoln. The Autobiography of Lincoln Stephens. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931.
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Swanberg, W. A. Citizen Hearst. New York: Galahad Books, 1961.
Thatcher, Ian D. Leon Trotsky and World War One: August 1914–February 1917. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
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Thwaites, Norman G. Velvet and Vinegar. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1932.
Trotsky, Leon. The Balkan Wars, 1912–13. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1980, 1991.
———. In Defense of Marxism: The Social and Political Contradiction of the Soviet Union. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1942, 1973.
———. Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1994.
———. My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1930, 1960, 2007.
———. Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904–1917. Edited by M. J. Olgin. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918.
———. Problems of Everyday Life. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1973.
———. The Revolution Betrayed. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1937, 2004.
———. The Russian Revolution: The Overthrow of Tzarism and the Triumph of the Soviets. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books 1932, 1959.
———. Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky. Lansing: University of Michigan Press. 1920, 1961.
———. Vingt Lettres de Leon Trotsky. Paris: La Vie Ouvriere. 1919.
Ulam, Adam B. The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia. New York: Collier Books, 1965.
Ultan, Lloyd. The Beautiful Bronx, 1920–1950. New York: Bronx County Historical Society, 1979.
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Vaksberg, Arkady. Stalin against the Jews. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Volkogonov, Dmitri. Lenin: A New Biography. New York: Free Press, 1994.
———. Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary. New York: Free Press, 1996.
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Willert, Arthur. The Road to Safety: A Study in Anglo-America Relations. London: Derek Verschoyle, 1952.
Wise, Jennings C. Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution. New York: Paisley Press, 1938.
Wittlin, Thaddeus. Commissar: The Life and Death of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. New York: MacMillan, 1972.
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———. Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1948, 2001.
Zeman, Z. A. B., and W. B. Scharlau. The Merchant of Revolution: The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus), 1867–1924. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
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ARTICLES, PAMPHLETS, AND PAPERS
Becker, Alfred. “In Re Leon Bronstein Trotzky (or Trotsky).” NARA, RG65, M1085, File OG1980592 (“Becker Report”), Bureau of Investigations, January 1918.
Cameron, Silver Donald. “Trotsky in Amherst.” Canadian Geographic, 1988.
Cannon, James P. “Trotsky on America,” International Socialist Review 21, no. 4 (Fall 1960):99–105.
Churchill, Winston S. “Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People.” Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920.
Corey, Esther. “Lewis Corey (Louis C. Fraina), 1892–1953: A Bibliography with Autobiographical Notes.” Labor History 4, no. 2 (1963).
Feigenbaum, William M., editor. “Should Socialism Prevail: A Debate Held October 21, 1915.” Rand School of Social Sciences, 1916.
Fraina, Louis. “Mass Action and Industrial Unionism.” International Socialist Review 17, no. 9 (March 1917):556–557.
Gorenstein, Arthur. “A Portrait of Ethnic Politics: The Socialists and the 1908 and 1910 Congressional Elections on the East Side.” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 50, no. 3 (March 1961):202–238.
Greene, Doug Enaa. “Nikolai Bukharin: Favorite of the Whole Party.” International Journal of Socialist Renewal, February 13, 2015.
Griffin, Frederick C. “Leon Trotsky in New York City.” New York History 49, no. 4 (October 1968):391–403.
Halpern, Michael D. “Trotsky Eats and Runs,” Jewish Ideas Daily, January 25, 2012.
Hogsbjerg, Christian. “The Prophet and Black Power: Trotsky on Race in the US.” International Socialism 121 (January 2, 2009).
James, Clive. “Leon Trotsky.” Slate.com, April 2, 2007, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/clives_lives/2007/04/leon_trotsky.html.
Jonas, Franklin. “The Early Life and Career of B. Charney Vladeck, 1886–1921: The Emergence of an Immigrant Spokesman.” Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, New York University, February 1972.
Kirchwey, Freda. “When Trotsky Lived in New York,” Freda Kirchwey papers (MC280, Folder 427), Schlesinger Library, Harvard University.
Kopp, Harry W. “Trotsky in the Bronx.” Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2012.
Lenin, Vladimir. “What Is to Be Done?” Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/, accessed May 3, 2016.
Literary Digest. “On The Trail of the Truth about Trotzky.” Literary Digest, February 9, 1918.
Lloyd, William Bross. “Convention Impressions.” Class Struggle 3, no. 4 (November 1919):389–394.
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———. “When Trotsky Lived in New York,” Special Collections, Browne Manuscripts, Lilly Library, Indiana University.
MacLean, J. B. “Why Did We Let Trotsky Go? Canada Lost an Opportunity to Shorten the War.” MacLean’s, July 1919.
Moskowitz, Henry. “Trotsky on the East Side.” Outlook, January 30, 1918.
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Recht, Charles. “A World to Win.” Recht papers, Tamiment Library, New York University.
Roberts, Priscilla. “Jewish Bankers, Russia, and the Soviet Union, 1900–1940: The Case of Kuhn, Loeb and Company,” American Jewish Archives Journal 49, no. 1–2 (1997):9–37.
Routsky, Pierre. “A Page from the Past,” Russian Review, 7, no. 2 (Spring 1948):69–75.
Schurer, Heinz. “Alexander Helphand-Parvus: Russian Revolutionary and German Patriot.” Russian Review 18, no. 4 (October 1959).
Shachtman, Max. “Natalya Ivanovna Sedoff (Sedova).” Box 18, Folder 18, Hoover Institution Archives, Albert Glotzer Collection.
Shub, David. “Bibliography: The Russian Press in the United States,” Russian Review 3, no. 1 (1943):120–128.
Spence, Richard. “Catching Louis Fraina: Loyal Communist, US Government Informant, or British Agent?” American Communist History 11, no. 1 (2012).
———. “Hidden Agendas: Spies, Lies, and Intrigue Surrounding Trotsky’s American Visit of January–April 1917.” Revolutionary Russia 21, no. 1 (June 2008):33–55.
———. “Interrupted Journey: British Intelligence and the Arrest of Leon Trotskii, April 1917,” Revolutionary Russia 13, no. 1(June 2000):1–28.
———. “The Tsar’s Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L’vovich Brazol, 1919–1960.” Part 1, “Beilis, the Protocols, and Henry Ford,” Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4, no. 1 (2012):199–220.
Thatcher, I. A. “Leon Trotsky in New York City.” Historical Research 69, no. 169 (June 1966):166.
Trotsky, Leon. “Europe and America.” Marxist Internet Archive, February 1924, https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1926/02/europe.htm, accessed May 20, 2016.
———. “In British Captivity, 1917.” Class Struggle 2, no. 4 (December 1918).
———. “Our Political Tasks.” Marxist Internet Archive, 2008, https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1904/tasks/.
Troy, Thomas F. “The Gaunt-Wiseman Affair: British Intelligence in New York in 1915.” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 16, no. 3 (2003):442–461.
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