Louis C. Fraina
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Louis C. Fraina was an Italian-American writer, educator and theoretician who was a founding member of the Communist Party of America in 1919. After running afoul of the Communist International in 192
Depiction of New York's Bowery district, circa 1910, where Louis Fraina spent his boyhood.
Fraina as he appeared in a grainy Bureau of Investigation identification photo c. 1921
Fraina was the editor of the newspaper of the Socialist Propaganda League, The New International.
Cover of the Fraina "Party Trial" pamphlet published by the Communist Party of America in 1920
Reds (film)
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Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Rev
Louis C. Fraina
…Library at Columbia University in New York City. The collection includes 10 linear feet of material housed in 24 archival boxes. In Warren Beatty's film Reds, Fraina was portrayed by Paul Sorvino. The Proletarian Revolution in Russia. With Nikolai Lenin and Leon Trotzky. New York: The Communist Press, 1918…
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Warren Beatty as John Reed on the set of the film Reds (1981).