Abraham Aaron Heller, best known as A.A. Heller, was a Russian-American who served as commercial director of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau as of 1919 and co-founded International Publishers with Alexander Trachtenberg in 1924.
Heller was a director of the Soviet Bureau under Ludwig Martens (right, accompanied by fellow director Santeri Nuorteva and wife, 1920)
Heller financed International Publishers, run by Alexander Trachtenberg (here, Moscow in Fall 1922)
Russian Soviet Government Bureau
The Russian Soviet Government Bureau (1919-1921), sometimes known as the "Soviet Bureau," was an unofficial diplomatic organization established by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the United States during the Russian Civil War. The Soviet Bureau primarily functioned as a trade and information agency of the Soviet government. Suspected of engaging in political subversion, the Soviet Bureau was raided by law enforcement authorities at the behest of the Lusk Committee of the New York State legislature in 1919. The Bureau was terminated early in 1921.
Mrs. and Mr. Santeri Nuorteva and Ludwig Martens of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau pose for newsreel cameramen, 1920.
Soviet Russia, launched as a publication of the RSGB, was later turned over to the Friends of Soviet Russia organization.
