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Joseph Starobin was an American Communist Party member and journalist.
Biography
[edit]Starobin attended City College of New York.[1] He was politically active while at the College, serving as a vice president of the Social Problems Club and advocating for the removal of President Frederick B. Robinson.[2] During the Moscow Trials, Starobin worked with James Wechsler to write a pamphlet explaining the Party's position on the trials but it was never finished since the Party urged them to write an attack on Trotsky instead.[3] Starobin worked as the foreign editor of the Daily Worker, before being replaced by Joseph Clark.[4] In 1953, Starobin spent 30 days in China, as the first American journalist to travel past the so-called "bamboo curtain".[5] He described this trip in his 1956 book Paris to Peking.[6]
By that year, Starobin began advocating for the Communist Party to distance itself from the Soviet Union.[7] His passport was revoked in August 1953.[8] On August 24, 1956, Starobin published an editorial in The Nation, arguing that the Communist Party was no longer a viable party and arguing for a new socialist movement.[9]
During the 1960s, Starobin became a senior fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia University.[10] Starobin and his wife moved from New York City in 1964 to Hancock, New York, where they lived in a converted 19th century barn that the couple operated as a skiing lodge.[11] Starobin advocated for a negotiated peace settlement to the Vietnam War, sending a memorandum to J. William Fulbright about his discussions with North Vietnamese contacts.[12] He met twice with Xuan Thuy, who he had first met during a 1953 visit to Hanoi.[13] Starobin also met with Henry Kissinger, who was not responsive to Starobin's attempts at negotiation.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Philipson, Ilene J. (1993). Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths. p. 199.
- ^ "More Suspensions at College Seen". The Buffalo Times. October 29, 1932. p. 2.
- ^ Kutulas, Judy. The long war: the intellectual people's front and anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940. p. 107.
- ^ Isserman, Maurice. If I Had a Hammer: The death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left. p. 9.
- ^ Greenfield, Carl O. (July 8, 1954). "Other Side of Bamboo Curtain: Daily Worker Writer Tells of Indo-Reds". Ventura County Star. p. 1.
- ^ Wilkerson, Doxey A. (March 1956). "World Journey". Masses & Mainstream. 9 (2): 53.
- ^ Sorin, Gerald. Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane. p. 320.
- ^ Caute, David. The great fear: The anti-Communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower. p. 247.
- ^ Weiss, Max (November 1956). "Notes of the Month". Political Affairs. 35 (11): 6.
- ^ Jaffe, Philip J. The rise and fall of American Communism. p. 195.
- ^ "Things Happen When Stars in Country Sky Outshine Lights of Broadway". The Portsmouth Herald. January 29, 1964. p. 22.
- ^ "Senator Raps Plan for Peace". New Castle News. November 20, 1969. p. 2.
- ^ Salisbury, Harrison E. (November 23, 1969). "Hanoi Wants Private Peace Talks With U.S." Independent. p. 15.
- ^ Frankel, Max (October 8, 1969). "Viet Breakthrough Seen, But White House Still Mum". Independent. p. 11.
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