biography
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Hall, Gus
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originally Arvo Kusta Halberg
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| lived:
| (1910–2000)
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| biography:
| Communist Party leader, born in Iron, Minnesota, USA. His parents were Finnish immigrants and charter members of the Communist Party, USA. He worked as a lumberjack and steelworker, then went to Russia and studied at the Lenin Institute (1931–3). In 1934 he joined the Communist Party, USA, later serving in the US Navy (1942–6). During 1951–7 he went to federal prison for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. He was national secretary (1950–9) and general secretary (1959) of the Communist Party, USA, and was party candidate for president of the United States (1972, 1976). He wrote many pamphlets and books, including For a Radical Change: The Communist View (1966) and Fighting Racism (1985). |
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