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  Max Eastman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883–March 25, 1969) was a socialist American writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance, later famous as an anti-leftist.
Eastman was also an active traveling lecturer on various literary and social topics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
Eastman's repudiation of socialism in general and communism in particular reached its high water-mark with the publication of Reflections on the Failure of Socialism in 1955.
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 Red Biographies: Max Eastman
Eastman was born in Canandaigua, New York in 1883 to clergy parents and radicalized in his youth on the issue of women's rights.
In 1918 Eastman joined with other radical writers to publish The Liberator, a magazine similar with similar intentions to The Masses, and remained with the publication until 1924, when it ran out of money and was taken over by the Communist Party USA.
Eastman was the author of several books: Understanding Germany (1916); Journalism Versus Art (1916); The Sense of Humor (1921); Leon Trotsky: Portrait of a Youth (1925); Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution (1926); and Artists in Uniform (1934).
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 American Experience | Emma Goldman | People & Events | PBS
Writer and editor of the radical journals The Masses and The Liberator, Max Eastman was a journalist's journalist, with a critical mind unmatched by many of his contemporaries.
Eastman was the son of Samuel Eastman and Annis Ford (both church ministers, each having studied theology at Oberlin College), and the brother of Crystal Eastman, feminist, suffragist, birth control advocate and peace activist.
Max Eastman lived through many more years of American social and political tumult, dying in 1969 of a stroke.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/goldman/peopleevents/p_eastman.html   (694 words)

  
 Max Eastman
Max Eastman was born in Canadaigua in 1883.
Eastman soon developed a reputation as an outstanding journalist and in 1912 was invited to become editor of the left-wing magazine, The Masses.
Eastman, like most of the people working for The Masses, believed that the First World War had been caused by the imperialist competitive system and that the USA should remain neutral.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jeastman.htm   (2072 words)

  
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Max Eastman was born in 1883 in Canandaigua, N.Y. to Samuel and Annis Ford Eastman, both ministers
Crystal was remembered by ex-socialist writer John Spargo, as a woman that wherever you met her, "she was the most intelligent person in the room." After graduating from Vassar in 1903 Crystal received a master's degree in sociology from Columbia, and a law degree from New York University in 1907.
Eastman said of the publication: "The Masses was not ill-humored and bitter, it was lusty and gay.
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 Commentary Magazine - Love and Revolution, by Max Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Had Max Eastman died or lapsed into silence around 1930, his stature would undoubtedly loom larger than it does today.
...Eastman, not only then but even now, there appears to be nothing amiss in blandly recording the fact that "there were no outstanding events" in the life of this American radical, resident in Russia and about to undertake a biography of Leon Trotsky, during that critical winter of the Revolution...
...Eastman it was quite literally true that the events of the Revolution were not experienced as events in his own life...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V40I1P94-1.htm   (1038 words)

  
 On Max Eastman
Comrade Max Eastman is an American revolutionist of the John Reed type, a devoted friend of the October revolution.
Eastman held to the opinion that the struggle waged by the Opposition was not energetic enough and he inaugurated a campaign abroad on his own accord and risk.
That is why, upon the decision of the leading group of the Opposition, I signed the statement on Max Eastman foisted upon me by the majority in the Political Bureau with the ultimatum: either sign the statement as written, or enter into an open struggle on this account.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1928/1928-eastman.htm   (1027 words)

  
 Crystal Eastman
Eastman was a prominent writer, editor, socialist and co-founder of the Congressional Union for Woman Sufferage which was the predecessor of the National Woman's Party founded in 1913.
Jane Addams found Eastman to be too direct, and who represented "impulsive radicalism and casual sex." Greenwich Village women were in favor of birth control, took lovers and got divorced which was definitely not the norm during this era.
Eastman was part of the " New Women " of Greenwich Village that believed that women needed the majority of their support from each other.
www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/ceastman.html   (846 words)

  
 Eastman, Max - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
EASTMAN, MAX [Eastman, Max] 1883-1969, American author, b.
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY: New Kodak Max 400 film delivers even better color than before.
Crystal Eastman and the internationalist beginnings of American civil liberties.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/EastmanM1.asp   (261 words)

  
 Crystal Eastman
Eastman reputation as a political campaigner grew and in 1913 she became investigating attorney for the U.S.Commission on Industrial Relations.
Eastman also joined with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to form the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) and attempted to introduce the militant methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
In her short life Crystal Eastman brushed against many other lives, and wherever she moved she carried with her the breath of courage and a contagious belief in the coming triumph of freedom and decent human relations.
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 Commentary Magazine - Reflections on the Failure of Socialism, by Max Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
THE main thesis of Max Eastman's book is that "socialism" in all its forms is a mortal threat to human freedom, decency, and civilization.
...Eastman, deserves mention: this is the vigorous opposition to Communism that has generally been one of the outstanding features of Social Democracy...
...Eastman are often prone to look on political programs and doctrines as "scientific hypotheses" to be tested "experimentally," with the consequences left to take care of themselves...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V19I6P92-1.htm   (1234 words)

  
 EASTMAN, E. MSS.
EASTMAN, E. The Eastman, E. mss., 1923-1958, consist primarily of the correspondene and writings of Eliena Vassilyenva (Krylenko) Eastman, (Mrs.
Employed as a private secretary to Maxim Litvinov in spite of her non-Party status, Miss Krylenko and Max Eastman met at the Genoa Conference in 1922 where Eastman was a special correspondent for the New York World.
In 1929 Eastman was in England to fulfill his obligations as guardian for the children of his sister Crystal (Eastman) Fuller.
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/eastmane.html   (437 words)

  
 Max Eastman
Max Eastman was an early editor of the socialist periodical The Masses which featured regular contributions from such writers as Upton Sinclair, Amy Lowell and John Reed.
On a extended trip to Russia in the early 1920s Eastman met and befriended Leon Trotsky.
Just as heretics were burned by thousands in the name of the love of the neighbour, so peasants have been starved by millions in the name of the workers' and peasants' republic.
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 Eastman Max Forrester - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eastman, Max Forrester (1883-1969), American writer and editor, whose work focused on radical politics.
Eastman, George (1854-1932), American inventor and philanthropist, who played a leading role in transforming photography from an expensive hobby of...
Beckmann, Max (1884-1950), German Expressionist painter and printmaker, whose works convey a pessimistic view of society.
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 Max Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eastman was an American writer, journalist and poet as well as a Marxist critic, who strongly influenced American criticism after the First World War.
Eastman said he had a welling and brimming-over happiness.
Eastman suddenly said "You have bought a house too far from people for me. I like a lot of people round me" he said.
www.powys-lannion.net /Powys/America/Eastman.htm   (194 words)

  
 EASTMAN MSS.
In several letters Eastman refuted the suggestion that he was a Jew (1929, Dec. 6; 1938, Apr. 19; 1955, Mar. 10).
The major portion of the correspondence is concerned with Eastman's writings and the response of leading figures to his books, articles, and lectures.
Among the printed materials are clippings and notes arranged by subject which were collected by Eastman for the preparation of his writings and the newspaper or periodical reviews of his books, articles, and lectures arranged by title.
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/eastman.html   (595 words)

  
 BookRags: Max (Forrester) Eastman Biography
Those who knew Max Eastman when he edited and published the radical magazines the Masses and the Liberator in Greenwich Village remember him as a spellbinding speaker capable of charming an audience of skeptics.
Whether he was soliciting funds for his magazines among wealthy radicals or persuading striking workers that socialism would solve their problems, Eastman was invariably articulate and effective.
Max Forrester Eastman was born in Canandaigua, New York, the fourth and last child of Samuel and Annis Ford Eastman, who had met as students at Oberlin College in Ohio.
www.bookrags.com /biography/max-forrester-eastman-dlb   (207 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Eastman, Max   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Books by Max Eastman All 7 Books by Max Eastman Including The Revolution Betrayed
Eastman, Max EASTMAN, MAX [Eastman, Max] 1883-1969, American author, b.
For many years a Communist and a leader of American liberal thought, he edited the left-wing periodicals The Masses (1913-17) and the Liberator (1918-23).
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03922.html   (312 words)

  
 A Claude McKay Letter to Max Eastman
In a few weeks I had won over the little hostile minority among the hotel workers; they all made demands on my company.
For me to accomplish that, my dear Max, it was necessary to be complex!
And I am complex enough to forgive your sneer at my saying that in joining the staff of the Liberator I was "moved by a desire to further a solution of the Negro problem in the revolution."
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/mckay/eastman.htm   (1601 words)

  
 TIME.com: Trotzky vs. Eastman -- Aug. 24, 1925 -- Page 1
The indictment was the more remarkable since Comrade Eastman defends Trotzky in his book against the Zinoviev-Stalin-Kamenev triumvirate, which he labels cowardly, weak, etc.
"Eastman exploits single incidents of the party discussion to flen our party and to undermine all confidence by perverting the meaning of facts.
He was graduated from Williams College in 1905 and subsequently became an associate professor at Columbia University, teaching Philosophy.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,720830,00.html   (431 words)

  
 eastman - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Women's Legal History Biography Project - Eastman, Crystal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Lawyer as Revolutionary, II: Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties
"Max Eastman: The Life of the Century" by Richard Sautter
Crystal Eastman, Work Accidents and the Law (1910).
www.law.stanford.edu /library/wlhbp/profiles/EastmanCrystal.html   (98 words)

  
 George Eastman House Max Dupain Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Copyright © 2001 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The contents of this site, including all images and text, are for personal, educational, non-commercial use only.
The contents of this site may not be reproduced in any form without the permission of the George Eastman House.
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 Max Eastman Quotes
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 O'Neill (1991) The last romantic: A life of Max Eastman
O'Neill (1991) The last romantic: A life of Max Eastman
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 Amazon.com: The Revolution Betrayed: Books: Leon Trotsky,Max Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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