Alexander Trachtenberg

Alexander L. Trachtenberg (1885-1966) was a leading writer, educator, and publisher of works on Marxism. He founded International Publishers in 1924. First active in the Socialist Party, he was a founding member of the Communist Party USA in 1919. He was jailed during the Red Scare for refusing to turn over student records related to his time as an instructor at the Jefferson School for Social Science.