Joel Shubin was a Russia

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n agronomist

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 and editor of the Moscow

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-based Peasant Gazette in the 1930s.

In 1932 Shubin married American

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 journalist

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 Anna Louise Strong

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, who was then editing the English-language version of another Soviet newspaper, Moscow News

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, in Moscow. Shubin accompanied Strong during her trips back the United States. According to Rewi Alley

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's account, Strong later said:

Perhaps we married because we were both so doggone lonely. But we were very happy.

At one point Shubin was allegedly a Communist International representative to the American Communist Party.