No one appointed me as Ronald Radosh’s nemesis/conscience. So I appointed myself. I have assumed this burden out of a mixture of admiration, sympathy, and disappointment. In 1983, Radosh and Joyce Milton produced one of the classic works of Cold War scholarship, The Rosenberg File, demonstrating, as clearly as anything can be demonstrated that —Julius…
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Ronald Radosh, writing history and then forgetting it
Way back in 1983, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton published a monument of Cold War scholarship, The Rosenberg File, arguing that while Julius Rosenberg was a very active and successful spy for the Soviet Union, whose conviction though not execution for espionage was well merited, the arrest, indictment, trial, conviction, sentencing, and ultimate execution of…