Radical "second life" of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

From: Arctic | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: Srebrnik, Henry F. | Copyright information

The American Communist movement included numerous "front" organizations which championed the political views and advanced the goals of the Soviet Union. Among them were movements whose main aim was to provide support for the Soviet project to establish a Jewish socialist republic in the Birobidzhan region in the far east of the USSR. One of the organizations prominent in this campaign was the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan. The Committee, also called Am...

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