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Maurice Hindus was born into one of four Jewish families in Bolshoye Bykovo, a village then part of the Russian Empire, in modern-day Belarus. His father Jacob Hindus was a kulak. His mother was Sarah Gendeliovitch, and they had eleven children.
When his father died, the family was impoverished.
In 1905, Hindus, his mother, and his siblings came to America and settled in New York City.
He attended high school in North Brookfield for three years and, thereafter, wishing to pursue a course in agriculture, he applied to Cornell University, but was rejected for a lack of sufficient high school courses.
He worked as an errand boy while attending night classes, and eventually enrolled at Stuyvesant High School. However, he was accepted at Colgate University, where he earned a degree in literature, with honors, in 1915. After engaging in part-time lecturing on Russia on the Chautauqua circuit in the American Midwest, he furthered his education with a year of graduate study at Harvard University.
During the Second World War, he spent three years in the Soviet Union as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.
He also wrote four novels, and travelled to Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine in 1947. His first book, The Russian Peasant and the Revolution was published in 1920.
He spent several months in 1922 among Russian émigrés, and then wrote several articles about them for Century Magazine, whose editor asked him to go to Russia to study the farm life and system. Several books were written from that experience, including Humanity Uprooted (1929) and Red Bread (1931).
He visited his home country several times, staying three years during World World War World War II After this time, he wrote Mother Russia (1943), an account of wartime conditions there.
He wrote Crisis in the Kremlin (1953) in response, painting the peasants in a sympathetic light.
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