ABSTRACT
"Moscow Gold: Confirmed at Last?" summarized historical scholarship on the Soviet subsidies of the American Communist movement and reproduced documents confirming Soviet subsidies to the Communist Party of the USA in the 1980s. Comintern files also contain numerous letters from American Communist leaders asking for prompter or larger subsidies. Also located was a 1925 Comintern letter to the American party allocating $2,500 for an upcoming Negro Labor Congress and setting out how the Comintern wanted the money spent. Ruthenberg broke down the uses of the Comintern's funds, with the largest being $13,000 for the Daily Worker followed by $5,717 to the Trade Union Educational League. Jerrold Schecter, Moscow editor of We, an English-language newspaper owned by Izvestia and Hearst, and Yuri Buranov, chief of research for Russia's Center for the Storage of Contemporary Documentation, have quoted an OGPU report on Armand Hammer from 1923-1926 Soviet files.
