Freda Utley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Freda Utley

English activist and author

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1898

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1978

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Winifred Utley (23 January 1898 – 21 January 1978), commonly known as Freda Utley, was an English scholar, political activist and best-selling author.
After visiting the Soviet Union in 1927 as a trade union activist, she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1928.
Later, married and living in Moscow, she quickly became disillusioned with communism.
When her Russian husband, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was arrested in 1936, she escaped to England with her young son.
(Her husband would die in 1938.) In 1939, the rest of her family moved to the United States, where she became a leading anticommunist author and activist.
She became an American citizen in 1950.