William Henry Chamberlin
William Henry Chamberlin ( born February 17, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 12, 1969 ) was an American correspondent for Russia and Eastern Europe historian.
Life
Chamberlin went to school in Pennsylvania and graduated from Haverford College after that. At 25 he went to the Greenwich Village in the south of Manhattan. There he impressed the lives of bohemians and the infatuation with Bolshevism in New York in the early 1920s. He worked for Heywood Broun, the literary editor of the New York Tribune and began to write under the pseudonym A. C. Freeman. He was a socialist pacifist, however, the communist regime in the Soviet Union supported.
After his resettlement in the later 1920s in the Soviet Union Chamberlin found there a job for the American Christian Science Monitor, for whom he worked until 1940. At the same time he was the Moscow correspondent for the British Manchester Guardian. At the beginning of his stay in the Soviet Union, he was a Marxist and admirer of communist Cartesian revolution, however, walked to the critics. In 1930 he published his book Soviet Russia, in which he described the period of the New Economic Policy of the Party. Chamberlin and his Russian-born wife criticized in the aftermath especially the consequences of the agricultural policy of the CPSU, the famine and forced collectivisation in Ukraine and the North Caucasus of 1932 and 1933.
In the later 1930s, Chamberlin toured Germany and then went for sen Christian Science Monitor to Japan. His experience in the three countries took him to the conviction that in the United States among others, by the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedoms are important for the development of individuals.
In 1940, Chamberlin came back from France to the United States, first went to Washington DC and was last down in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). His collaboration with the U.S. magazine Russian Review lasted from 1940 until 1960.