David J. Dallin

David J. Dallin (born David Yulevich Levin, ; 24 May 1889 – February 21, 1962 ) was a Belarusian-American one-time Menshevik leader and later a writer and lecturer on Soviet affairs, who helped Victor Kravchenko defect in the 1940s.

Youth Dallin was born in Rogachev, Russian Empire, in 1889. He studied at the University of St. Petersburg from 1907 to 1909, when he faced arrest and imprisonment for anti-tsarist political activity. After two years of imprisonment, he fled Russia to Germany. He studied at the University of Berlin and obtained his doctorate in Economics from the University of Heidelberg in 1913.

New Leader Dallin joined the staff of the left-wing anti-communist magazine, The New Leader in New York, where he worked for nearly twenty years. (Founded in 1924 by the Socialist Party of America, The New Leader had come under executive editor Samuel Levitas, a Russian Menshevik, after which the magazine left the SPA but remained left-wing. ) He wrote numerous books and newspaper and magazine articles on economic and political subjects, particularly Soviet affairs. However, New Left academics had come to dismiss Dallin's works by the mid-1960s due to his citations of testimony from defectors and exiles plus congressional and FBI investigations, all seen as anti-communist. "Such evidence was increasingly distrusted, and Dallin's Menshevik past was taken as reason for skepticism as well," Haynes has noted.

Works Translations of other books Arbeitslohn und die soziale Entwicklung, von Dr. David Lewin (1913) Books in English Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy 1939-1942 (1942) Russia & Postwar Europe (1943) The Big Three: The United States, Britain, Russia (1945) Forced Labor in Soviet Russia, with Boris I. Nicolaevsky (1947, 1974) Soviet Russia and the Far East (1949) Economics of Slave Labor (1949) The Rise of Russia in Asia (1949) New Soviet Empire (1951) Soviet Espionage (1955) Changing World of Soviet Russia (1956) Soviet Foreign Policy After Stalin (1961) From Purge to Coexistence: Essays on Stalin's and Khrushchev's Russia (1964) Books translated into English Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, 1939–1942, translated by Leon Dennen (1942) Russia and Postwar Europe, translated by F. K. Lawrence (1943) Real Soviet Russia, translated by Joseph Shaplen (1944, 1947) Books translated into German Zwangsarbeit in Sowjetrussland, with Boris I. Nikolaevsky, translated by Victor Brougmann (1947) Essays, Reports "What Is Behind the Soviet Proposal for a Summit Conference?" Conference with Dr. David J. Dallin [and others], United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1958) "Mensheviks: From the Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War", edited by Leopold H. Haimson, with contributions by David Dallin et al., translated by Gertrude Vakar (1974)