David Dallin studied at the University of St Petersburg from 1907 to 1909, when he faced arrest and imprisonment for anti-tsarist political activity.
14 Facts About David Dallin
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David Dallin studied at the University of Berlin and obtained his doctorate in Economics from the University of Heidelberg in 1913.
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David Dallin won election to the central committee of the Menshevik group of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and represented the group on the Moscow City Soviet from 1918 to 1921.
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David Dallin stayed in Germany until the Nazis forced him to leave in 1935, when he settled in Poland.
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David Dallin stayed in Poland until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when he moved to the United States.
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David Dallin approached the former US ambassador to Russia, William C Bullitt, whom he had known in Moscow, for advice.
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David Dallin advised Kravchenko to tell his story to The New York Times as soon as possible: Kravchenko began drafting his story that first night.
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The next day, David Dallin brought The New York Times labor journalist Joseph Shaplen to meet Kravchenko.
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When Shaplen and Kravchenko did not get along, David Dallin turned to a former United Press correspondent to Moscow, Eugene Lyons, by then editor of The American Mercury.
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David Dallin introduced him to Isaac Don Levine and Max Eastman.
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David Dallin joined the staff of the left-wing anti-communist magazine, The New Leader in New York, where he worked for nearly twenty years.
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David Dallin was a visiting professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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David Dallin and Eugenia had a son, Alexander David Dallin, born overseas, who later became a prominent academic expert in Soviet studies.
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David Dallin was survived by his second wife and son.