Alexander Gumberg

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Alexander Gumberg (1887–1939) born in Kropyvnytskyi (then Elizavetgrad), he was a Ukrainian of Jewish background who emigrated to the United States in 1903 and went on to become an important link between the Soviet regime and the USA following the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.[1] Although he was not a Bolshevik himself, his brother Sergey Zorin was.[2]

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  1. ^ Smith, C. Jay (1978). "Alexander Gumberg and Soviet American Relations, 1917-1933. By Libbey James K. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1977. xii, 229 pp. $13.50". Slavic Review. 37 (2): 299. doi:10.2307/2497617. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2497617.
  2. ^ Libbey, James K. (2015). Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations: 1917--1933. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813163642. Retrieved 15 November 2017. internet archive