His ashes were scattered off the coast of Barcelona. Klonsky died on September 7, 2002, in Chicago at the age of 84. He and other survivors of the Spanish war were made honorary citizens of Spain in 1998. Robert Klonsky supported the jailed professor Angela Davis, demonstrated against the Vietnam War and had a few acting parts in movies. His son, Michael Klonsky, also became active in politics, becoming a national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society and later leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). Īfter 1958, Klonsky lived in California, where he ran a bookstore near UCLA and where he remained active in organizing workers in the film industry. He served over a year at the federal penitentiary at Allenwood, Pennsylvania, before the Justice Department withdrew charges in 1958. They were convicted in 1954 of violating the Smith Act, which outlawed 'teaching or advocating the overthrow of the American government by force'. Klonsky and Walter Lowenfels were defendants in a trial in the mid-1950s of nine Philadelphia members of the Communist Party. Klonsky's brother Ben became the chief cantor of Reading, Pennsylvania, while his brother Mac became a Communist. His parents were poor religious Jews who had emigrated from Russia. The Fabulous Ego Absolute Power in History Milton Klonsky Published by Quadrangle(1974) ISBN 10: 0812904907ISBN 13: 9780812904901 NewHardcoverQuantity: 1 Seller: Big Bill's Books (Austin, TX, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: new. Klonsky was born in 1918 in a house on Eastern Parkway in the Brownsville/ East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. The Fabulous Ego: Absolute Power In History Milton Klonsky 0.00 0 ratings0 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book Hardcover Published JanuBook details & editions Loading interface. Robert Klonsky (12 March 1918 – September 7, 2002) was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which fought on the side of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. The 'Abraham Lincoln' XV International Brigade New York City, New York, United States of AmericaĬhicago, Illinois, United States of America

The Fabulous Ego by Milton Klonsky