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Isaac Don Levine
1892–1981
A Russian-born American journalist, foreign correspondent, and prolific author, he built a long career explaining the Soviet world to U.S. readers. His work ranged from eyewitness reporting and biography to sharply argued anti-communist commentary.
1 Audiobook
Yashka : My life as peasant, exile and soldier
by Mariia Bochkareva, Isaac Don Levine
About the author
Born in Mozyr in the Russian Empire in 1892, he emigrated to the United States in 1911 and went on to become a journalist and author with a deep, lasting focus on Russia and the Soviet Union. Reliable archival and reference sources describe him as a Russian-born American writer who worked for major newspapers including the Kansas City Star and the New York Tribune.
He became especially known as a specialist on Soviet affairs. Over the course of his career, he reported on revolutionary Russia, wrote books and memoirs, and later served as editor-in-chief of Plain Talk, an anti-communist monthly magazine. His published work helped shape how many American readers understood the Soviet system during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
He died in 1981. Today, he is remembered chiefly as a reporter, commentator, and author whose career connected firsthand observation of upheaval in Russia with decades of American debate about communism and world affairs.