Gordon, Max, 1920-1990

Max Gordon (1910-1990) was the (New York) City Editor of the Communist Pary USA's newspaper, the Daily Worker who sided with the unsuccessful social democratic reform faction during the Party's 1956-1958 internal struggle in the aftermath of the famous "secret" speech in April 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Stalin at the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was born in Gloversville, N.Y., graduated from City College, was an organizer for the Party in the Albany, N.Y. area before joining the editorial staff of the Daily Worker in 1942.

From the guide to the Max Gordon: Communist Party, USA Crisis of 1956-1958: Internal Documents Collection, ca.1956-1958, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)