Bertram Wolfe

Bertram David Wolfe (ur. 19 stycznia 1896, zm. 21 lutego 1977) – amerykański historyk i sowietolog.

Życiorys

Urodził się w Nowym Jorku w rodzinie żydowskich emigrantów z Cesarstwa Niemieckiego. W młodości wstąpił do partii komunistycznej w USA. Był też członkiem Meksykańskiej Partii Komunistycznej. W 1925 deportowany z Meksyku jako wywrotowiec. W 1928 udał się do Moskwy. Szybko zraził się do stalinizmu i został wykluczony z partii. W okresie zimnej wojny stał na czele Ideologicznego Komitetu Doradczego przy Voice of America. Był także profesorem wizytującym na Uniwersytecie Columbia (doktorat 1931) i Uniwersytecie Kalifornijskim. Jest znany biografii Lenina, Stalina, Trockiego i Diego Rivery.

Wybrane publikacje

Our Heritage from 1776: A Working Class View of the First American Revolution. With Jay Lovestone and William F. Dunne, New York: The Workers School, n.d. [1926] alternate link
How class collaboration works Chicago: Daily Worker, 1926 (Little red library #9)
Revolution in Latin America New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1928
The Trotsky opposition: its significance for American workers New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1928 (Workers library #5)
Economics of present day capitalism New York: New Workers school 1930s
The nature of capitalist crisis New York: New Workers school 1930s
What is the communist opposition? New York: Workers Age Pub. Ass’n. 1933
Marx and America New York: John Day Company Co. 1934
Things We Want to Know New York: Workers Age Pub. Association. 1934
Marxian Economics: An Outline of Twelve Lectures. New York: New Workers school 1934
Economics of Present Day Capitalism. New York: New Workers School, n.d. [1930s].
Portrait of America (with Diego Rivera) New York: Covici, Friede 1934
Portrait of Mexico (with Diego Rivera) New York: Covici, Friede 1937
Civil war in Spain (with Andrés Nin) New York: Workers Age Publishers 1937
The Truth about the Barcelona events by Lambda (Introduction) New York: Workers Age 1937
Keep America out of war, a program (with Norman Thomas) New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1939
Diego Rivera: his life and times New York: A.A. Knopf 1939
The Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg Intro. and trans. by Bertram D. Wolfe. New York: Workers Age 1940
Poland, acid test for a people’s peace New York: Polish Labor Group 1945
Diego Rivera Washington: Pan American Union 1947
Three who made a revolution, a biographical history Washington: Dial Press 1948
Operation rewrite; the agony of Soviet historians New York, N.Y.?: Council on Foreign Relations?, 1948
An exclusive radio interview with Stalin on peace and war: based on a series of three broadcasts by the Voice of America, October, 1951(with Catharine de Bary) S.l.: Distributed by the United States Information Service 1951
Six keys to the Soviet system Boston: Beacon Press 1956
Khrushchev and Stalin’s ghost; text, background, and meaning of Khrushchev’s secret report to the Twentieth Congress on the night of February 24-25, 1956. New York: Praeger Publishers 1957
The durability of despotism in the Soviet system; Changes in Soviet Society, conference under the auspices of St. Anthony’s College in association with the Congress for Cultural Freedom (June 24-29, 1957) Oxford: St. Anthony’s College 1957
The Russian Revolution, and Leninism or Marxism? by Rosa Luxemburg (new introduction) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1961
The fabulous life of Diego Rivera – Stein and Day Publishers New York 1963
Leninism Palo Alto, Calif.: Hoover Institution 1964
Strange Communists I have known New York: Stein and Day 1965
Marxism, one hundred years in the life of a doctrine New York, Dial Press 1965
The bridge and the abyss; the troubled friendship of Maxim Gorky and V.I. Lenin New York, Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. by F.A. Praeger 1967
An ideology in power; reflections on the Russian revolution New York: Stein and Day 1969
Lenin: notes for a biographer by Leon Trotsky (introduction) New York: Capricorn Books 1971
Revolution and reality: essays on the origin and fate of the Soviet system Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1981
A life in two centuries: an autobiography New York: Stein and Day 1981
Lenin and the twentieth century: a Bertram D. Wolfe retrospective Stanford, Calif.:Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University 1984
Breaking with communism: the intellectual odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe edited and with an introduction by Robert Hessen Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University 1990