Evolution of an American Communist

by John Gates

subtitle: Why I Quit After 27 Years, Where I Stand Now

First published as a series of articles in the New York Post from January 20 to 26, 1958.

23 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 1958

About the author

John Gates, born Solomon Regenstreif, the son of ethnic Jewish parents from Poland, was the editor of The Daily Worker and executive secretary of the New York State Young Communist League. He also was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and rose to become commissar of the Lincoln-Washington Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.