Mandel, William M. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Soviet lives (Series record)

William Mandel was a United Press expert on Russia in World War II and a post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University in 1947. He taught at Syracuse, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, and San Jose State Universities, and Law School of Golden Gate University. Mandel visited the USSR nine times at the time of this series, including…

August 24, 2025

Communist viewpoints : a debate / William Mandel, Dorothy Healey, and Suzi Weissman.

On martial law in Poland and the tragedy of the Polish working class.

August 24, 2025

A Beef about KPFA management / William Mandel.

Complaint about operations at Pacifica’s Berkeley station made by one of its weekly programers.

August 24, 2025

Mikhail Sholokhov / William Mandel.

Mandel discusses the author of And Quiet Flows the Don and recipient of l965 Nobel Prize for Literature.|MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV / William Mandel. – Mandel discusses the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, the Russian author Sholokhov. Mandel also examines the book which won the prize: All Quiet Flows the Don. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 4 Dec.…

August 24, 2025

Women liberationists in the French Revolution / by Elizabeth Racz ; read by William Mandel.

Reading of Racz’s Science and Society article about the impact of the French Revolution upon women’s status. Tape is currently missing from Archives. (2013)

August 24, 2025

Two top Soviet doctors / Viktor V. Golovteyev and Vlail’ Kaznacheev ; interviewed by William Mandel.

Discussion of medical practices in the Soviet Union.

August 24, 2025

Three Russians on the Berkeley campus / moderated by William Mandel.

Constantine Bochkarev, Alexander Schweizer, and Dr. Igor Dlishchenko answer questions from Mandel’s students about life in the Soviet Union.

August 24, 2025

First impressions of the USSR / William Mandel.

Talk on his first hand experiences in the Soviet Union.

August 24, 2025

Grass roots social thought : USSR / translated and read by William Mandel.

Reading of a Russian farmer’s discussion of alienation, the morality of the payment system, and whether a co-op or a government enterprise is more socialistic.

August 24, 2025

Antisemitism in the USSR / L.W. Novik ; interviewed by William Mandel.

Editor of Die Freiheit, a New York based Yiddish language newspaper, discusses the abscence of antisemitism in Russia.

August 24, 2025