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Ronald Radosh
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Ronald Radosh (ˈreɪdɒʃ ; born 1937) is an American Social Conservative writer, professor, historian, and former Marxist.
As he described in his memoirs, Radosh was, like his Ashkenazi Jewish parents, a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America until the exposure of the truth about Stalinism began during the Khrushchev Thaw. He later became an activist in the New Left against the Vietnam War.
Radosh turned his attention in the late 1970s to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whom he believed were the innocent victims of a judicial murder. After studying declassified FBI documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and interviewing their friends and associates, however, Radosh was forced to conclude that the Rosenbergs had indeed committed espionage for the Soviet KGB during the Manhattan Project and the Korean War, the crime for which they were both executed. When Radosh published his conclusions, despite his efforts to be balanced and objective, the American New Left was outraged.
Radosh credits his subsequent ostracism and cancel culture experience, which he termed at the time "Left-Wing McCarthyism", as the moment when his political views began to shift towards conservatism, and his subsequent research as a historian has continued to make him very critical of both Marxism and Communism. Currently employed by the Hudson Institute, Radosh has also published books about the covert activities of Joseph Stalin's NKVD during the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of the State of Israel.
His most recent book was co-authored with his wife, Allis Radosh: A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel was published by HarperCollins in 2009. They are currently writing a book about the presidency of Warren G. Harding, to be published by Simon & Schuster.
Radosh was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Washington Heights. His parents, Reuben Radosh and Ida Kreichman, were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
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