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| − | '''Lovett Fort-Whiteman''' was an American communist activist and a senior official with the [[CPUSA]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NSyFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA273 Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943]</ref> who was born in Dallas, Texas, but died as a slave in a Soviet gulag. | + | '''Lovett Fort-Whiteman''' was an American [[communist]] activist and a senior official with the [[CPUSA]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NSyFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA273 Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943]</ref> who was born in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], but died as a slave in a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[gulag]]. |
He was captured in 1937 during the [[Great Purges]] in the Soviet Union,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=umYjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Watching the red dawn: The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union]</ref> and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-o5jqehzvcC&pg=PA246 The Soviet World of American Communism]</ref> He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition. | He was captured in 1937 during the [[Great Purges]] in the Soviet Union,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=umYjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Watching the red dawn: The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union]</ref> and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-o5jqehzvcC&pg=PA246 The Soviet World of American Communism]</ref> He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:45, December 12, 2025
Lovett Fort-Whiteman was an American communist activist and a senior official with the CPUSA[1] who was born in Dallas, Texas, but died as a slave in a Soviet gulag.
He was captured in 1937 during the Great Purges in the Soviet Union,[2] and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.[3] He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition.