(1931-1935)
Introduction
Student Review was a magazine published by the National Student League (NSL) during the academic school year. The NSL was a group that had its origins among communist-minded students and their allies at City College of New York in 1931 to protest the suspension of CCNY students for anti-war activism. This group joined with radical student groups at other New York colleges and, ultimately together, organized first the New York Student League and later the National Student League over the 1931-1932 Christmas break.
Unlike other communist groups at the time, the initiative for the NSL did not come from the CPUSA or Young Communist League (YCL). This was because the radicalism of the Communist line in the 1929-1933 period favored a focus on working class youth, rather than on building a movement among "bourgeois" college students. However, the YCL soon warmed to the organization and assisted its development.
When, beginning in 1934-35, the Communist movement moved toward a policy of popular fronts, the NSL looked to merge with its socialist equivalent, the Student League for Industrial Democracy. When this merger was ultimately effectuated, in December 1935 with the creation of the American Student Union, Student Review ceased publication.
Volume One
Volume 1, Number 1, December 1931
Volume 1, Number 2, January-February 1932
Volume 1, Number 3, March 1932
Volume 1, Number 4, May 1932
Volume 1, Number 5, Summer 1932
Volume Two
Volume 2, Number 1, October 1932
Volume 2, Number 2, November 1932
Volume 2, Number 3, December 1932
Volume 2, Number 4, February 1933
Volume 2, Number 5, March 1933
Volume 2, Number 6, April 1933
Volume 2, Number 7, May 1933
Volume Three
Volume 3, Number 1, December 1933
Volume 3, Number 2, January 1934
Volume 3, Number 3, February 1934
Volume 3, Number 4, April 1934
Volume 3, Number 5, Summer 1934
Volume Four
Volume 4, Number 1, November 1934
Volume 4, Number 2, December 1934
Volume 4, Number 3, March 1935
Volume 4, Number 4, April 1935
Volume 4, Number 5, June 1935
Volume Five
Volume 5, Number 1, October 1935