Eugene Lyons (d. 1985) was a US journalist and writer. In his early days he was fairly close to the Communist Party of the USA, was involved in the defence of Sacco and Vanzetti, and wrote an account of their case shortly after their execution. This article is about the year. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Left) and Nicola Sacco (Right) Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian anarchists, who were arrested, tried, and electrocuted in Massachusetts in 1927 on charges of murder of a shoe factory paymaster named Frederick Parmenter...

Possibly his most important work was Assignment in Utopia, an account of his time in the USSR during the late 1920s and early 1930s, which was highly critical of Stalin and his regime, although from within a left-wing standpoint. It received fairly favourable comments from several people, including Leon Trotsky and George Orwell, and was an influence on the latter's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... Leon Trotsky â–¶(?) (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij and Trotzky ) (October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... George Orwell, on the cover of a 2005 biography by Gordon Bowker Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903–January 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

In later years his political views shifted to the right, and for a time he was editor of the Reader's Digest. The cover of the May 2004 issue of Readers Digest. ...

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• Extract from Assignment in Utopia on the famine of 1932-33