Nadejda Joffe to join fall U.S. tour
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Nadejda Joffe (left) and her son-in-law (right) receive photo book about Trotsky from delegation members Suzi Weissman (left) and Carl Finamore (second from right).
Nadejda Joffe, the 82-year-old daughter of leading Left Oppositionist Adolf Joffe, has agreed to join part of the fall 1989 U.S. tour sponsored by Walnut Publishing Co. and Socialist Action.
This tour, scheduled for Oct. 15 through Nov. 15 in 12 cities-will hear a report back from trips to the Soviet Union by international leaders and supporters of the program of Leon Trotsky and the Fourth International.
Nadejda Joffe was herself a member of the Left Opposition, which was founded by Leon Trotsky in the mid-1920s to fight against the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. In 1929, she was sent to Siberia for three years, after which she was sent for 10 years to the notorious Kolyma labor camp near the Bering Straits.
In 1949, Nadejda was arrested for the third time and sent into permanent exile. She was released in 1956 during the Khrushchev thaw.
Other featured speakers on the fall 1989 U.S. tour are Esteban (Seva) Volkov, Leon Trotsky's grandson; Pierre Broue; French historian and director of the Paris-based Leon Trotsky Institute; and the U.S. participants in the March 3-13 tour of the Soviet Union: Paul Siegel, Ralph Schoenman, Suzi Weissman, and Carl Finamore.
Walnut Publishing Co. has launched a $30,000 fund drive to help finance the March 3-13 tour of the Soviet Union and the fall 1989 report back.
Contributions payable to "Walnut Publishing Co." can be sent to 3435 Army St., suite 308, San Francisco CA 94110.
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