Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.
While residing in the Soviet Union from the fall of 1922 to the summer of 1924, Eastman was influenced by the power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and the events leading to Stalin's eventual seizure of power. As a witness to the Great Purge and the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, he became highly critical first of Stalinism and then of communism and socialism in general. While remaining atheist, he became an advocate of free market economics and anti-communism. In 1955, he published Reflections on the Failure of Socialism. He published more frequently in National Review and other conservative journals in later life, but he always remained independent in his thinking. For instance, he publicly opposed United States involvement in the Vietnam War in the 1960s, earlier than most.
Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society, a poet and a prominent political...
fight for women's suffrage, a co-founder and co-editor with her brother MaxEastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of...
Theatre on Fifty-Eighth Street in New York City. Pioneer American radical MaxEastman (1883-1969) narrates the film. Because of its pro-Trotskyist position...
originally published in Russian, but it was translated into English by MaxEastman in 1932. The English translation of the second volume, originally consisting...
fiction, poetry and art by the leading radicals of the time such as MaxEastman, John Reed, Dorothy Day, and Floyd Dell. Piet Vlag, an eccentric Dutch...
the International, there encountering his friend Liberator publisher MaxEastman, a delegate to the Congress. In Russia, McKay was widely feted by the...
magazine's policy against World War I. The Liberator, a magazine founded by MaxEastman and controlled by him and his sister, published Reed's Russian Revolution...
Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, MaxEastman Alexanderpalace History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, MaxEastman O. Figes (1996) A People's Tragedy:...
by Victor Serge. The most widely available English translation is by MaxEastman. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein, 1879–1940) was one of the leaders...
1 n.a. R. Dyvig; (bio-it) R. Dyvig — MaxEastman (astronomer) 9 n.a. M. Eastman; amateur, (735), Src M. Eastman — J. Edmonds 1 n.a. J. Edmonds; inferred...
September 1944 and achieved great popularity. At the arrangement of editor MaxEastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest published an abridged version...
"the master of a new literary genre, the genre of silence." American MaxEastman describes Babel's increasing reticence as an artist in a chapter called...
The Eastman Gang was the last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until the early 1910s. Along with...
Irregulars Reverend Michael Hill 1981 Harry's War Harry Johnson Reds MaxEastman 1982 Death Valley Paul Stanton A Little Sex Tommy Annie President Franklin...
(1932). The History of the Russian Revolution. Vol. III. Translated by MaxEastman. London: Gollancz. OCLC 605191028. Wade, Rex A. "The Revolution at One...
writer and editor MaxEastman in New York in 1911, Rauh made a point of keeping her maiden name. In some places, such as Eastman's home town of Elmira...
twentieth-century psychological theorists. In 1926, American writer MaxEastman paid a visit to Sigmund Freud and claimed to have seen a print of The...
Edward "Monk" Eastman (1875 – December 26, 1920) was an American gangster who founded and led the Eastman Gang in the late 19th and early 20th century;...
Studios between 1918 and 1921. She was romantically involved with writer MaxEastman and actor Charlie Chaplin. Deshon died of gas asphyxiation in her New...
OCLC 1110326753. Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, translated by MaxEastman, Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2008, p. 209 See Marcel Liebman, Leninism...
Evolution. H. B. Acton described Marxism as "a philosophical farrago". MaxEastman argued that dialectical materialism lacks a psychological basis. Leszek...
Two Mrs. Grenvilles: A Novel by Dominick Dunne, Artists in Uniform by MaxEastman, Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology by George Clinton...
published in 1927. Wood primarily wrote poetry and serious prose. However, MaxEastman and John Reed, co-editors of the radical magazine The Masses, asked him...
Trotsky, Leon. The History of the Russian Revolution. Translated by MaxEastman, 1932. ISBN 0-913460-83-4. Ascher, Abraham, ed. The Mensheviks in the...
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