Nicholas I. Hourwich [Gurvich]

Very little appears to be known about the life of Nicholas I. Hourwich. He is perhaps best remembered as the son of the famous economist, statistician, lawyer, and political activist Issac A. Hourwich. This is what the Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern has to say about N.I. Hourwich:

Born in the United States to Jewish immigrants from tsarist Russia. He joined the Russian immigrant socialist movement and at the time of the February 1917 revolution he, like Trotsky and Bukharin, belonged to the group around the newspaper Novyi Mir (New World). Following the November 7 victory he rallied to communism; early in 1918 he represented the Russian Socialist Federation at the information bureau formed to defend the Bolshevik cause in the United States. In November 1918 he was a contributing editor of a Socialist Party left-wing publication in Boston, The Revolutionary Age. Early in 1919 he was a member of the executive committee of the socialist left in New York, and at the founding congress of the Communist Party of America in September was elected its international delegate. When the party split in mid-1920 and the militant communists were arrested he took the pseudonym Andrew and then left for Soviet Russia, where he arrived toward the end of the Second Congress of the Comintern, which closed on August 7, 1920. With John Reed he immediately became an American representative to the ECCI. In June and July 1921 he took part in the debates of the Third Congress of the Comintern. He never returned to the United States, remained in Soviet Russia, but held no further Comintern positions.

Works:

1918: The Fundamentals of Bolshevism
1918: The Class Character of Bourgeois Mercy, The Revolutionary Age, December 11, 1918
1918: On the Eve of Disaster
1918: The Constituent Assembly, The Revolutionary Age, December 28, 1918

1919: The Left Wing of the American Socialist Party, The Revolutionary Age, February 1, 1919
1919: The Holy Trinity of Capital
1919: The Defeat of Germany and the Bolshevik Peril
1919: The American Left Wing in Action, The Revolutionary Age, April 5, 1919
1919: A "Socialist" Prosecuting Attorney
1919: Problems of the Soviet Representative, The Revolutionary Age, April 19, 1919
1919: Problems of the Representative of Soviet Russia in America, The New York Communist, April 19, 1919
1919: Class Character of Bourgeois Justice
1919: Lenin or Wilson – The Bourgeoisie Scents Danger, The Revolutionary Age, May 3, 1919
1919: "A Poor Peace Better than Proletarian Revolution", The Revolutionary Age, May 17, 1919
1919: Left Wing Bogey, The New York Communist, May 31, 1919
1919: The Control of Government, The Revolutionary Age, June 21, 1919
1919: The Communist Party of America: Report to the 5th Convention of the Federation of Russian Branches, August 26, 1919
1919: The Socialist Party Apostle Speaks
1919: The Demonstration of October 8 and What It Teaches Us
1919: In the Political Cinematograph, The Communist World, November 8, 1919
1919: Communist Party Control and Soviet Institutions

1921: Remarks at the 19th Session of the Third World Congress of the Communist International, July 7, 1921, [as Andrews] from Third Congress of the Communist International, (reprinted from "Moscow," the special organ of the Congress)