American visitors to USSR, 1930s, 40s and 50s

[Edward M Dumanis]

I can recommend "Black on Red (My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union)" by
Robert Robinson published by Acropolis Books, Ltd., 1988.
ISBN 0-87491-885-5.
It gives a unique insight related to this subject.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Alina Israeli wrote:

>
> But that's not what Susan's student wants (see below). She wants to know
> how the Soviets reacted to Americans who came to visit during Stalin's time
> (of all times!). I doubt such info exists, unless someone wrote a memoir
> after the fact acknowledging clandestine meetings with Americans when such
> meetings were deadly.
>
> There were two groups of Americans that came to the S.U. during those
> years: left-leaning immigrants, mostly Jews, occasionally by-racial couples
> who had a hard time of it in the US (and boy did they get stuck in the SU,
> I knew at least three such families), and the second group were American
> communists who were coming to get instructions from the HQ. I forget the
> name of the head Communist and his common law wife, who came on one such
> visit with their son, jovially put him up in the "detskij dom" (orphanage)
> - communists' paradise in their estimation - and went about their communist
> business. When the time came to leave SU to go back home they were told
> that they could not take their son since he spoke Russian, so they left him
> there for good. I believe his new Russian name was Tixomirov, and he became
> a scientist. Then of course there were some performers, Paul Robeson, for
> ex., a frequent visitor to the" land of freedom".
>
> Considering that Soviet citizens interested in self-preservation should
> have done their utmost not to meet foreigners, it's not very likely that
> they committed to paper information that could cause their destruction.

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