Maurice Levitas
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Maurice Levitas (February 1, 1917-February 14, 2001) was an Ireland-born academic and communist. Levitas was involved with the Communist Party of Great Britain and was a Marxist-Lenininist throughout his political life. He was involved in military activity; first becoming involved with Comintern's International Brigades against the Nationalist insurgency during the Spanish Civil War and then during the Second World War, as a British citizen, he joined the British Army's Royal Army Medical Corps. After the War, he remained involved in Communist politics and also became a sociology lecturer at Durham University. In the 1980s, he relocated to the Eastern Bloc, teaching in East Germany, where he edited and translated a book on German politician Erich Honecker titled Erich Honecker Cross Examined.
Maurice Levitas | |
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Nickname(s) | Morry Levitas |
Born | 1 February 1917 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 14 February 2001 (aged 84) London, England |
Allegiance | Second Spanish Republic British Empire (WWII) Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) |
Service/ | International Brigades (1937-38) Royal Army Medical Corps (1942-48) |
Battles/wars | Spanish Civil War Second World War |