Soviet speaking tour kicks off
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Leon and the Victims Esteban Volkov at 50th anniversary celebration of Fourth International in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 1988.
Walnut Publishing's new book "Gorbachev's USSR: Is Stalinism Dead?" will be published this month in conjunction with a national speaking tour by the authors. The book is a result of visits to the Soviet Union in 1988 and 1989.
A special feature of the U.S. speaking tour will be the participation of Nadezhda Jotte, who will arrive from Moscow as the guest of Walnut Publishing.
Receptions for Joffe will be held in Boston and New York.
In the 1920s, Joffe was a young organizer of the Bolshevik Left Opposition to Stalin before being imprisoned in the slave labor camps of Kolyma and Magadan. Her father, Bolshevik leader Adolph Joffe, committed suicide as a political ... Brazil (continued from preceding page) also represents a tremendous retreat on the statement against Stalin; her husband was shot as an "enemy of the people;" and her children were sent to labor camp orphanages.
Through it all, Joffe maintained the principles of her youth--that the only genuine socialism is one based on the fullest workers' democracy encompassing the goals and aspirations of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
A $3000 fund appeal to finance Joffe's visit to the United States will continue through Nov. 15. All donations go exclusively toward Joffe's expenses. Walnut Publishing thanks the numerous friends who have already contributed.
Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkov, Leon Trotsky's grandson, will speak in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Volkov is leading an international campaign to clear the name of Trotsky and other victims of the Stalinist Moscow Trials frame-ups of the 1930s.
Trotsky's biographer Professor Pierre Broué will appear in all the cities listed. Broué is the director of the Leon Trotsky archives at the Hoo. ver Institution at Stanford University ani at Harvard University. Based on his research of formerly sealed archives that were opened in 1980, Broué has written the most comprehensive biography of Trotsky yet available.
Other speakers on the national tour include Susan Weissman, Ralph Schoenman, Paul Siegel, and Carl Finamore-all of whom visited the Soviet Union on behalf of the family of Leon Trotsky. Not all these speakers will appear in every city.
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The selection of Bisol is significant for many reasons. In addition to codifying the reformist program of the Brazil Popular Front, his selection represents an alliance with the country's liberal bourgeois opposition, primarily in the PSDB.
Meetings in several cities will be spon sored by major universities. In Boston, il Harvard University Archives is sponsoring a meeting. In New York City, the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University is a sponsor. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Hoover Institution Archives and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University and the Slavic and East European Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, are sponsors. Soviet speakir Boston Oct. 18, 1 p.m., Center for European Studies, Harvard Univ.
Oct. 18, 4 p.m., Reception, Trotsky Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard Univ.
Oct. 19,2 p.m., Brown Univ.
Oct. 20, Evening citywide rally, with special presentation by Bernie Sanders, Kennedy Institute fellow and former may. or of Burlington, Vt. (For time and place, call 617-497-0230.)
New York City Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Citywide meeting, P.S. 41, 116 W. Ilth St.
Oct. 22, 12 noon-3 p.m., Reception, 101 W. 85th St. #2-1.
Oct. 23, 12 noon, Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia Univ.
Baltimore
Oct. 24, 7 p.m., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Lecture Hall 4, 5401 WIkins Ave, Catonsville.
Chicago
Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., U. of IIl., Chicago Circle Center, Cornucopia Room 329, 750 S. Halsted St. Pierre Broué addresses Memorial rally in Moscow on Nov. 15, 1988, as speakers leaf through his 1100-page biography of Trotsky.
tour schenme Minneapolis Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., St. John's Univ., Collegeville, Minn. (sponsored by Global Awareness Project).
Oct. 27, Citywide meeting. (For time and place call, 612-430-1476.)
San Francisco Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Citywide meeting, Horace Mann School, 3351 23rd St. (at Valencia St.).
Oct. 29, 2 p.m., Reception, (Call 415821-0458 for invitation.)
Oct. 30, 3 p.m., Hoover Tower, Stanford Univ.
Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., U.C. Berkeley, 155 Dwinelle.
Los Angeles Oct. 31, Reception, (Call 213-96-6945 for invitation.)
Nov. 3, Citywide meeting.
[In addition, Carl Finamore and Paul Siegel will be speaking in Cleveland on Oct. 13 (216-429-2167) and Youngstowi Ohio, on Oct. 14. Finamore will also speak in Cincinnati (513-272-2596) on Oct. 16 and Kansas City on Oct. 17.] soon!