24 Facts About Ronald Radosh

Ronald Radosh is an American social conservative writer, professor, historian, and former Marxist.

Ronald Radosh later became an activist in the New Left against the Vietnam War.

Ronald Radosh turned his attention in the late 1970s to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whom he had believed for decades to have been the innocent victims of judicial murder by a kangaroo court.

When Ronald Radosh published his conclusions, despite what he considered to be his efforts to be balanced and objective, the American New Left was outraged.

Ronald Radosh describes his subsequent experience, which he termed at the time "Left-Wing McCarthyism", as the moment when his political views began to shift towards neoconservatism, and states that his subsequent research as a historian has continued to make him very critical of both Marxism and Communism.

Currently employed by the Hudson Institute, Ronald Radosh has published an expose about the covert activities of Joseph Stalin's NKVD and the Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War.

Ronald Radosh was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Washington Heights.

Ronald Radosh attended the communist-run Camp Woodland for Children in the Catskill Mountains.

On June 19,1953, Radosh joined Howard Fast and Civil Rights Congress leader William L Patterson in a mass demonstration in Union Square against the imminent execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

When Fast announced that the Rosenbergs were being led into the execution chamber, Ronald Radosh recalls that a wail went through the crowd and the Party's folk singers began singing, Go Down Moses.

Ronald Radosh has said that his desire at the time was both to study history, which Karl Marx considered queen of the sciences, and to become a leader of America's communists.

In 1959, Ronald Radosh arrived at the University of Iowa and intended to work towards his master's degree.

Ronald Radosh had received his masters as a historian, and began working towards his doctorate under William Appleman Williams, one of the founders of the Wisconsin School of diplomatic history, who further drew his young protege into the New Left.

In 1963, Ronald Radosh returned to New York City with his wife and children.

Ronald Radosh was guilty of attacking the heroic Vietnamese people, instead of the United States, which was the enemy of the world's people.

In 1976, Ronald Radosh was a "founding sponsor" of James Weinstein's magazine In These Times.

Ronald Radosh similarly condemned multiple violations of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights during the era of McCarthyism.

Ronald Radosh learned that the US Department of Justice had gone for the death penalty at the trial of the Rosenbergs only because they wanted Julius Rosenberg to cooperate with investigators and testify as a prosecution witness against other, even more damaging Soviet spies.

Ronald Radosh's writings have appeared in The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, National Review, the blog FrontPage Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines.

Ronald Radosh was a faculty member at Queensborough Community College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Ronald Radosh is an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, and a professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York.

In October 1975, Ronald Radosh married Allis Rosenberg, who has a PhD in American History and has co-authored two books with him.

On 7 August 2014, Ronald Radosh reviewed Diana West's American Betrayal in FrontPage Magazine.

Ronald Radosh criticized West's limited knowledge of the scholarly literature and called her thesis a "yellow journalism conspiracy theory".