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Joshua Kunitz was an American (description)

Biography

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He visited Moscow in the spring of 1930 and again five years later, describing his second trip as "one continuous gasp of wonderment"[1] In 1953, Grace Lumpkin testified that Kunitz had threatened to "break [her] as a writer" if she wrote anything the contradicted the Communist Party's line.[2]

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  1. ^ Aaron, Daniel (1961). "A Decade of Convictions: The Appeal of Communism in the 1930's". The Massachusetts Review. 2 (4): 736–747. ISSN 0025-4878.
  2. ^ "Reveals State Department Library Has Pro-Red Book". The Roanoke Times. April 3, 1953. p. 20.
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