Ronald Radosh (/ˈreɪdɒʃ/RAY-dosh; born 1937) is an American social conservative writer, professor, historian, and former Marxist.
As he described in his memoirs, Radosh was, like his Ashkenazi Jewish parents, a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America until the exposure of the truth about Stalinism began during the Khrushchev Thaw. He later became an activist in the New Left against the Vietnam War.
Radosh turned his attention in the late 1970s to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whom he had believed for decades to have been the innocent victims of judicial murder by a kangaroo court. After studying declassified FBI documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and interviewing their friends and associates, however, Radosh came to the conclusion that the Rosenbergs had indeed committed espionage for the Soviet KGB during the Manhattan Project and the Korean War, the crime for which they were both executed. When Radosh published his conclusions, despite what he considered to be his efforts to be balanced and objective, the American New Left was outraged.
Radosh describes his subsequent experience, which he termed at the time "Left-Wing McCarthyism", as the moment when his political views began to shift towards neoconservatism, and states that his subsequent research as a historian has continued to make him very critical of both Marxism and Communism.[2] Currently employed by the Hudson Institute, Radosh has also published an expose about the covert activities of Joseph Stalin's NKVD and the Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War.
His most recent book, about the foundation of the State of Israel, was co-authored with his second wife, Allis Radosh: A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel was published by HarperCollins in 2009.[3] The Radoshes are currently writing a book about the presidency of Warren G. Harding, to be published by Simon & Schuster.
^Ronald Radosh (2001). Commies; A Journey through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left. Encounter Books. page 1.
^Goldman, Andrew (November 22, 2012). "Oliver Stone Rewrites History". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
RonaldRadosh (/ˈreɪdɒʃ/ RAY-dosh; born 1937) is an American social conservative writer, professor, historian, and former Marxist. As he described in...
Radosh is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: RonaldRadosh (born 1937), American writer, professor and historian Daniel Radosh (born...
by the United States federal government Soviet atomic bomb project Radosh, Ronald (June 10, 2016). "Rosenbergs Redux". Archived from the original on July...
members, and children whose parents never became members of ... Radosh, Ronald; Radosh, Aliss. "Red Star Over Hollywood. The Film Colony's Long Romance...
It never comes. What's 'untold' here?" In November 2012, historian RonaldRadosh of the conservative Hudson Institute lambasted it as "mendacious" Cold...
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Francisco Chronicle, and Newsday. Hudson Institute adjunct fellow historian RonaldRadosh accused the series of historical revisionism, while journalist Michael...
Right Wing Wilderness." Callaloo 31#4 (2008), pp. 1362–70, online. RonaldRadosh, Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American...
matter of Guthrie's membership, however, remains controversial. Scholar RonaldRadosh has written: [H]is friends Gordon Friesen and Sis Cunningham, the founders...
Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party (2022) pp. 204–244. RonaldRadosh, Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964–1996 (1996)...
historian Mark C. Carnes The Left's Lion: Eric Foner's History – by RonaldRadosh Expert report by Eric Foner for University of Michigan Affirmative Action...
libertarians who came from the Old Right tradition like Murray Rothbard, RonaldRadosh and Karl Hess in opposition to imperialism and war, especially in relation...
records released by the former Soviet Union's KGB in recent years. RonaldRadosh, a historian and expert on the Cold War spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
Krauthammer Irving Kristol Edward Luttwak Michael Ledeen Joshua Muravchik RonaldRadosh Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University...
Espionage in America. Yale University Press, 1999. Klehr, Harvey and RonaldRadosh. The Amerasia Spy Case. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina...
1972-1982. PhD dissertation. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1983. RonaldRadosh, Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover...
not "trust a word [Kobyakov] says", At the same conference, historian RonaldRadosh reported that while researching the papers of Marshal Voroshilov in...
revealed the government's case was even stronger.6 "Over the years," said RonaldRadosh, "the Rosenbergs' defenders have loudly demanded the release of government...
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