Charles Malamuth (November 9, 1899 – July 14, 1965) was an American journalist, writer, translator from Russian and anticommunist.
[1][2][3][4] Charles Leo Malamuth (or Goodman) was born on November 9, 1899, in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire).
[4] He corresponded with Max Eastman, Eugene Lyons, Adolphe Menjou, and Leon Trotsky as well as Ilya Ehrenburg, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Aleksei Tolstoi, and Evgeny Zamyatin.
[7] Malamuth served as assistant to Eugene Lyons during the latter's stay there as Moscow bureau chief for United Press.
[1][7] In 1953, the Communist Party of France attacked him in its newspaper Ce soir by calling him "un fidéle de Trotsky" ("a Trotsky loyalist") and citing his and Lyons support for Victor Kravchenko during the latter's trial in France for his book I Chose Freedom (1949), which exposed the GULAG system in the USSR.
Furthermore, the newspaper accused Malamuth of close association with the "Trotskyite" Max Eastman and with Isaac Don Levine.
Lastly, he had worked for the American Joint Distribution Committee ("Jewish welfare agency"), which the CPSU had accused of "engineering" the Doctors Plot.
Trotsky was unhappy with Malamuth because he had shown his unfinished translations to others (specifically Max Shachtman and James Burnham).