Nadezhda Joffe to join U.S. tour
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da, was arrested three times and spent several years in prison. one Nadezhda, 82, has recently become an active member of Memorial, a group founded by survivors of the political repression that 20 SOCIALIST ACTION SEPTEMBER 1989 Walnut Publishing is proud to announce that Nadezhda Joffe, imprisoned and persecuted member of the original Bolshevik opposition to Stalin, will be a featured guest at public meetings in Boston and New York in October 1989. Nadezhda's father was the prominent Bolshevik opposition leader Adolph Joffe. He committed suicide in 1927 to protest the rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Soon after, as a member of the Young Communists, Nadezhda joined the Trotskyist Left Opposition.
As a result of her activities, Nadezhwas released in 1956 during the Khrushchev thaw.
claimed the lives of over 20 million people. Nadezhda Joffe A $3000 fund raising effort has been launched to help finance Nadezhda Joffe's visit. All donations will go directly to these expenses. Please make out checks to Walnut Publishing Co. and earmark "Nadezhda fund."
Joining Nadezhda in her two-city tour will be Esteban Volkov, grandson of Leon Trotsky, and Pierre Broue, Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky.
Other speakers in a national tour scheduled for 11 cities are Susan Weissman, Ralph Schoenman, Paul Siegel and Carl Finamore. They were all participants in a delegation which recently visited Moscow representing the family of Leon Trotsky. The delegation met with government officials and leaders of today's opposition
Tour schedule
Cleveland Boston Chicago Oct. 13 Oct. 18-19 Oct. 25 Youngstown New York Minneapolis Oct. 14 Oct. 21-23 Oct. 26-27 Cincinnati San Francisco Oct. 16 Baltimore Oct. 28-30 Kansas City Oct. 24 Los Angeles Oct. 17 Oct. 31-Nov. 3 Note: Not all speakers will be available to speak in every city. For information on time, place, and speakers, call the Socialist Action branch in your city or the national office. List page 19.