Louis Fischer, the Glossary
Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was an American journalist.[1]
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63 relations: Academy Awards, Anti-communism, Aufbau Verlag, Autobiography, Berlin, Berliner Zeitung, Central High School (Philadelphia), Communism, Communist Party USA, Counter-revolutionary, Europe, Francisco Franco, Fred Beal, Freda Kirchwey, Gandhi (film), Gareth Jones (journalist), George Orwell, Hearst Communications, Holodomor, International Brigades, Jewish Legion, Joseph Stalin, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Konrad Wolf, Kremlin, Kyiv, Leon Trotsky, Logging camp, Mahatma Gandhi, Markus Wolf, Max Eastman, Moscow, Myra Page, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, Nationalism, Nazi Germany, New York City, New York Post, Pacifism, Palestine (region), Philadelphia, Podolia, Poltava, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Reflections on Gandhi, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Stalinism, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- Philadelphia School of Pedagogy alumni
- South Philadelphia High School alumni
- War correspondents of the Spanish Civil War
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Anti-communism
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.
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Aufbau Verlag
Aufbau Verlag is a German publisher.
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Autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Berliner Zeitung
The Berliner Zeitung is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany.
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Central High School (Philadelphia)
Central High School is a public high school in the Logan"." Philadelphia City Planning Commission.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
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Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.
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Counter-revolutionary
A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
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Fred Beal
Fred Erwin Beal (1896–1954) was an American labor-union organizer whose critical reflections on his work and travel in the Soviet Union divided left-wing and liberal opinion.
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Freda Kirchwey
Mary Frederika "Freda" Kirchwey (September 26, 1893 – January 3, 1976) was an American journalist, editor, and publisher strongly committed throughout her career to liberal causes (anti-Fascist, pro-Soviet, anti-anti-communist).
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Gandhi (film)
Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, a major leader in the Indian independence movement against the British Empire during the 20th century.
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Gareth Jones (journalist)
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell. Louis Fischer and George Orwell are International Brigades personnel.
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Hearst Communications
Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Holodomor
The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a genocide.
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International Brigades
The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
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Jewish Legion
The Jewish Legion was an unofficial name used to refer to five battalions of the British Army's Royal Fusiliers regiment, which consisted of Jewish volunteers recruited during World War I. In 1915, the British Army raised the Zion Mule Corps, a transportation unit of Jewish volunteers, for service in the Gallipoli campaign.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Kazakhstan, the Kazakh SSR, or simply Kazakhstan, was one of the transcontinental constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991.
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Konrad Wolf
Konrad Wolf (20 October 1925 – 7 March 1982) was an East German film director.
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Kremlin
The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.
Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.
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Logging camp
A logging camp (or lumber camp) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
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Markus Wolf
Markus Johannes Wolf (19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006), also known as Mischa, was an East German spy who served as the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,, commonly known as the italic).
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Max Eastman
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.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
Myra Page
Dorothy Markey (born Dorothy Page Gary, 1897–1993), known by the pen name Myra Page, was a 20th-century American communist writer, journalist, union activist, and teacher. | first.
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National Book Award
The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.
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National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,Edwin McDowell.
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Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York Post
The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.
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Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.
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Palestine (region)
The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Podolia
Podolia or Podilia (Podillia,; Podolye; Podolia; Podole; Podolien; Padollie; Podolė; Podolie.) is a historic region in Eastern Europe, located in the west-central and south-western parts of Ukraine and in northeastern Moldova (i.e. northern Transnistria).
Poltava
Poltava (Полтава) is a city located on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine.
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Reflections on Gandhi
"Reflections on Gandhi" is an essay by George Orwell, first published in 1949, which responds to Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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Stalinism
Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin.
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Stasi
The Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,; abbreviated as "MfS"), commonly known as the italics, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit, was the state security service and secret police of East Germany (the GDR) from 1950 to 1990.
Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
The Essential Gandhi
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas is a collection of Mohandas Gandhi's writings edited by Louis Fischer.
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The God that Failed
The God That Failed is a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright.
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The Nation
The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Progressive
The Progressive is a left-leaning American magazine and website covering politics and culture.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia (Вінниця) is a city in Central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Wrecking (Soviet Union)
Wrecking (вредительство or vreditel'stvo, lit. "inflicting damage", "harming") was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era.
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See also
Philadelphia School of Pedagogy alumni
South Philadelphia High School alumni
- Al Alberts
- Al Brancato
- Angelo DiGeorge
- Bob McCann
- Carmen Piccone
- Charlie Gracie
- Chief Jay Strongbow
- Chubby Checker
- Eddie Feinberg
- Eddie Gottlieb
- Edward Heffron
- Frank Forbes
- Frank Gasparro
- Frank Guarrera
- Fred Diodati
- H. Patrick Swygert
- Hal Marnie
- Harry Ellis Kalodner
- Harry Gold
- Harry Litwack
- Irv Kosloff
- Israel Goldstein
- Joe Rullo
- John Liney
- John Mercanti
- John Sandusky
- Joseph Ligambi
- Joseph Stefano
- Lionel Simmons
- Lois Fernandez
- Louis Fischer
- Marian Anderson
- Mario Lanza
- Martin S. Weinberg
- Nate Blackwell
- Petey Rosenberg
- Red Klotz
- Robert K. Merton
- Rodney Harvey
- Samuel Noah Kramer
- Stan Brown (basketball)
- Stanley Weintraub
- Vincent Persichetti
War correspondents of the Spanish Civil War
- Abe Bluestein
- Cecil Gerahty
- Elizabeth Deeble
- Franz Borkenau
- Geoffrey Cox (journalist)
- George Seldes
- George Steer
- Gerda Grepp
- Gertrude Gaffney
- Harold Cardozo
- Henry Tilton Gorrell
- Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker
- Humphrey Slater
- Jay Allen
- Kitty Wintringham
- Lise Lindbæk
- List of foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
- Louis Fischer
- Martha Gellhorn
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Nordahl Grieg
- Peter Kerrigan
- Robert Neville (journalist)
- Sam Lesser
- Sefton Delmer
- Shiela Grant Duff
- Simone Téry
- Sofía Casanova
- Vernon Bartlett
- Vincent Sheean
- Virginia Cowles
- Willy Brandt
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer
, Stasi, Teacher, The Essential Gandhi, The God that Failed, The Nation, The New York Times, The Progressive, United States, Vinnytsia, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, World War II, Wrecking (Soviet Union).